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Coimbatore
Power looms to go on indefinite strike
May 31, 2016
Power loom units in and around Tirupur are planning to go on an indefinite strike following the “failure of payment of revised wages.”
Nearly two lakh units stopped work for 70 days three months ago demanding more wages. Following tripartite talks between District Collectors of Coimbatore and Tirupur, looms and cloth merchants the strike was withdrawn on February 22.
According to Power loom Job Workers Association, the strike was necessitated as the cloth merchants failed to pay the wages that was agreed upon in 2014. “They paid only 10 per cent instead of 27 per cent for Palladam variety of fabric. Repeated requests have fallen on deaf ears,” they said.
Though a section of unit owners decided to lay siege of the Tirupur Collectorate, labour department persuaded them to give up and promised to take up the issue with the concerned.
