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JAC to conduct awareness meetings on new wage deal

By M. Soundariya Preetha

COIMBATORE June 8. The Joint Action Council of the workers' unions of Tirupur knitwear manufacturing units has planned to conduct awareness meetings explaining the details of the new three-year wage agreement.

In those units where it was not implemented, the unions would hold talks with managements, according to sources in the JAC.

The new agreement came into effect on June 2.

A large number of units paid weekly wages and hence in some places, the increase was already implemented. Normally, the units implemented new wages within a week.

A clear picture of the number of units where there were problems in implementing the agreement was likely to be known only by next week-end, the sources said.

The unions were also distributing pamphlets to workers with details of the hike.

The sources said there were more than a lakh workers employed in manufacturing units and this agreement was applicable to all workers in the hosiery units at Tirupur.

According to the new agreement, during the first year (June 2, 2003 to June 2, 2004) of its three-year period, each worker in divisions such as cutting, tailoring, pressing and packing would get a total of Rs.129.52 (including dearness allowance and travel allowance) a day. Those in the stacking division would receive Rs. 66.90 a day and workers in the checking division would get Rs. 91.86 a day.

In a pamphlet distributed, the Banian and General Workers' Union of the CITU said in case the workers were receiving more than the basic wages on which the hike was calculated, then there should be an increase of 10 per cent from their existing wages.

It said workers receiving piece-rate wages in units catering to the domestic and export markets would also get a 10 per cent increase in their wages during the first year.

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