The job working powerloom units in Coimbatore and Tiruppur districts, who are on an indefinite strike since March 19 demanding revision of wages by the master weavers, were told on Tuesday that the wage issue will be resolved in a couple of days.
S.E. Bhoopathi, president of the job working powerloom units association, said the Tiruppur district administration officials and Minister MP Swaminathan assured them on Tuesday that a section of the master weavers has agreed to pay higher wages and others will also come to a settlement in a couple of days.
The job working unit owners planned a fast protest on April 2 and this was withdrawn following the assurance, he said. Similarly, the Recycle Textile Federation that had announced a strike on April 2 in support of the job working weavers also withdrew the strike.
The Federation said if the weavers continued with the strike, the open end mills may have to suspend yarn production since there is no demand for yarn from the weavers, he said. The Federation has urged the district administration and the State government to find a settlement to the issue at the earliest.
K. Annamalai, State president of the Bharatiya Janata Party, said in a statement on Monday that the production loss because of the weavers’ strike was ₹30 crores a day. Several workers employed in powerloom units will lose jobs if the strike continued. The job working units are hit by increase in power costs, labour costs and prices of other inputs. Hence, the government should hold talks with the master weavers and job workers and arrive at a solution at the earliest.
Published - April 01, 2025 08:27 pm IST
