HEC employees to cease work

Ranchi: As the sit-in by over 300 executives of Heavy Engineering Corporation Ltd (HEC) entered its third day on Saturday, the representatives of workers’ unions decided to meet on Monday to finalise their plan to completely boycott work until their salary dues are cleared.
Production at all three HEC plants — Foundry and Forge, Heavy Machine Tools Plant and Heavy Machine Buildings Plant — have come to a standstill since Thursday after HEC executives launched an indefinite demonstration to draw the Centre’s attention to their demands.
The officials have blocked the gates of the PSU’s offices at Dhurwa.
“At a meeting of workers on Saturday, representatives of three trade unions — Hatia Mazdoor Union, Hatia Project Workers Union and Hatia Mazdoor Lok Manch — agreed to join the strike by the HEC executives. We have called a meeting of all six trade unions at HEC on Monday to finalise a joint action plan, wherein all workers would launch a complete work boycott, demanding immediate payment of outstanding wages, a revamp of the HEC management and urgent release of funds for modernisation of the six-decade-old plant,” said Bhawan Singh, the president of the Hatia Mazdoor Union.