Trade unions call for 3-day coal workers’ strike from Oct 5

Dhanbad: Five national trade unions, including the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS), have announced a three-day coal workers’ strike from October 5 over issues pertaining to wage payment.

The trade unions also served a memorandum in this regard to the Coal India chairman, they said in a joint release. Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC) senior vice-president A K Jha said the decision was taken during a meeting of representatives of all the five trade unions in Ranchi on Thursday. In the memorandum, they claimed that the September salary of the non-executive miners and staff in CIL and Singareni Collieries Company Ltd (SCCL) would be paid on the basis of the National Coal Wage Agreement (NCWA)-10, instead of NCWA-11, which was inked in May.