Factory workers protest against Management

Excelsior Correspondent
SAMBA, June 4: The workers of Cadila Pharmaceuticals in Samba industrial area held massive protest demonstration against the management of the unit here today.
Nearly 150 workers of the factory including women assembled at the main gate of the factory and held protest demonstration. They were shouting slogans against the management of the unit, owned by investors from outside the State. The workers closed the gate and not allowed any worker to move inside in the morning.
The management of the unit tried to convince them but the irate workers were in no mood to listen today. They alleged that they were facing victimization and harassment at the hands of some people in the security and management. The women workers alleged that they were facing sexual harassment at the unit. While leaving the factory, every worker is placed to frisking.
Even the women factory workers are made to go through the frisking at the hands of male security staff. They alleged that several times, they requested the management to deploy women security staff for lady workers as they were facing sexual harassment, but the authorities at the helm of affairs never bothered. Even some people in the management were teasing women workers and exploiting them, they alleged.
The police was also called by the factory management but it avoided to intervene and remained mute spectator. A few cops led by an officer moved inside factory and then came out after some time, without bothering to listen to the harassed factory workers. After holding protest for about two hours, some senior people in the management tried to intervene and assured that their demands will be considered. The protest was then suspended. The workers have sought intervention of DC Samba in this regard.

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