Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 28: Further intensifying the struggle for getting their demands fulfilled, the Non-Gazetted employees of Jammu University today extended their daily two-hour token strike to three-hour.
Further, the members of Jammu University Non-Teaching Employees Association also joined their Non-Gazetted colleagues during the token protest today for expressing solidarity with them.
The protesting employees suspended their work for three hours and assembled near the Administration block on the campus, under the banner of Jammu University Non-Gazetted Employees Union. They raised slogans in support of their demands and staged a dharna there for three hours.
They were demanding removal of 2750 Grade, cancellation of order on disengagement of eight employees of Human Genetics Department, 17 percent promotion quota for Graduate class IV employees as per Kashmir University and creation of posts of different categories.
While addressing the employees, president NGEU, Vijay Kumar warned to further intensify the protest if their demands are not conceded within a short period of time.
He appealed the Chancellor and Pro-Chancellor of Jammu University to personally intervene and ensure that all genuine demands of the Non-Gazetted employees are conceded for a congenial atmosphere in the campus.
Leaders of some other organizations of workers also joined the dharna and addressed the protesting employees.
