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Mangaluru (The Hindu): Workers of Mysore Sugar Company Ltd. (Mysugar), the State-owned sugar mill in town, staged a protest on Thursday demanding pending salary and other benefits.
About 100 employees of different divisions staged a demonstration on the premises of the mill.
Five workers — Siddaiah, Chandrashekar, Nagaraju, Mahadeva and Kumara — scaled the chimney to protest against the management. According to them, the employees have been working for four months without salary. The non-payment of salary has affected the celebration of Ugadi festival. They raised slogans against Mysugar management for not initiating measures to clear their dues and threatened to commit suicide if their demand was not met immediately.
While the five staged their protest by scaling the chimney, remaining workers agitated on the premises of the mill. Of them, some shouted slogans against Housing Minister M.H. Ambareesh for “not showing any interests to revive the mill.”
Fire and Emergency Services personnel and the local police tried to convince them to come down. However, they were in no mood to listen to anything. They warned that they would jump from the chimney if anyone tried to reach them.
Deputy Commissioner M.N. Ajay Nagabhushan spoke to them through mobile phone. Later, they gave up their protest.
The mill should provide provident fund, Ugadi bonus, health insurance and other facilities besides regularising the contract labourers, they demanded.
Photo credit: The Hindu
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