Payment of salaries to contract staff demanded

Kakinada: The 279 GO municipal and transport contract workers union demanded immediate release of 3 month pending salaries of municipal contract employees in Kakinada Corporation. Addressing media here on Friday, the union president Tatipaka Madhu said that the TGR organisation contractors are treating the municipal employees as bonded labourers and not paying salaries regularly.

Madhu also said that in total 350 municipal workers have been taken by TGR on contract basis and not paying salaries regularly. The CPI leader demanded that the officials take steps for immediate payment of pending salaries without further delay.