HEC workers join executives’ protest over pending salary

Ranchi: Around 400 executives of Heavy Engineering Corporation Ltd.(HEC) continued with their 70-day-old strike over pending salaries, while some 3,000 regular and contractual workers walked out of shop floors to register their protest against non-payment of wages for the past 10 months.
On Wednesday, workers from all the three HEC plants abandoned work, walked out of their shop floors and joined the striking executives at the HEC main gate where they raised slogans demanding payment of wages for work done.
Later, the workers marched towards the state secretariat at the nearby Project building complex demanding immediate intervention by the state government to save HEC from sinking further. However, they were stopped by a large contingent of the state police.
The police, however, allowed the leaders of all the eight trade unions, operating at HEC, to go to the chief minister's office to present a joint memorandum.
Not finding the chief minister at his office, the leaders proceeded to the chief minister's residence on Kanke Road, where they handed over a memorandum to the officials present there, demanding an immediate takeover of HEC and save the already ailing PSU from sinking any further.