Traders at onion market issue ultimatum to workers on protest

Trichy | Tuesday | 25th September, 2018

Summary:

The workers have been refusing wages demanding a hike.Refusing to intervene in the issue, labour officers asked the traders and load men to arrive at a compromise. To prove that it was a false allegation, we took the money to the labour department. According to traders, the load men had not accepted wages for a total of 40 days. The load men have said that they would make a decision on accepting the wage by September 28,” Ve Govindarajulu, state general secretary of TVSP, said. Initially, the load men, said to be more than 200, who had been working at the market on Sub-jail Road had protested for not being re-employed after the onion market’s relocation..