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TTD contract staff intensify stir
The contract workers in TTD have intensified their agitation, as they did not get any response for their 45-day relay hunger strike from the state government. On Friday, the TTD contract employees and workers union staged a massive dharna in front of TTD Administrative Building here. They demanded equal pay for equal work as per the verdicts of Supreme Court and High Court.
Tirupati: The contract workers in TTD have intensified their agitation, as they did not get any response for their 45-day relay hunger strike from the state government. On Friday, the TTD contract employees and workers union staged a massive dharna in front of TTD Administrative Building here. They demanded equal pay for equal work as per the verdicts of Supreme Court and High Court.
Highlights:
- Demands the state government to implement equal pay for equal work
- Padmavathi outsourcing firm removed experienced workers from jobs on the flimsy reasons, alleges CITU leader
- Outsourcing firm contractor claiming himself as the follower of Chandrababu Naidu, says Murali
They were also fighting against the outsourcing company called Padmavathi, which employed the labourers to work in TTD. The company has removed more than 60 labourers recently on the flimsy reasons. They were pleading the TTD to interfere and do justice to them but the TTD and Padmavathi company were not bothered to respond to their
ongoing agitation.
Extending CITU’s solidarity to the agitating workers, its general secretary Kandharapu Murali said that the TTD had removed supervisors and workers, who were having 5 to 11 years of experience.
He said the contractor was threatening the workers by saying that he was the follower of Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu. Murali questioned the apathy of TTD’s top brass. The contract workers were getting insufficient wages though they have heavy workload. The women workers were alleging that the contractor was harassing them in several ways.
There was no window to express their problems. Besides contract workers, forest, garden, annadanam, security staff and even artists of Annamacharya project were facing severe hardship with the indifferent attitude of the TTD machinery, Murali alleged. The other leaders who spoke at the dharna also strongly resented the attitude of the contractor and pledged to continue their stir till justice was done to them. They also demanded that the state government should bring an act to continue the services of the existing contract workers irrespective of contractors.
