the goan I network
VASCO
The Goa Shipyard Kamgar Ekvott (GSKE) union at Goa Shipyard Limited (GSL) has rejected the proposal of GSL CMD R Adm. Shekhar Mital to accept the MOU signed by the GSL Management with two other unions at GSL.
However, R Adm. Mital has claimed that the situation is the other way round and the union was simply trying to create an issue, despite assurance of around 28 per cent wage increase.
According to GSKE President Subhash Naik Gorge, Mital had addressed a meeting within the GSL yard and it was attended by over 1,000 workers.
GSKE claimed that Mital attempted to explain the present situation in the yard and requested the assembled workers to cooperate with the management and appealed to employees to accept the undertaking circulated by the management.
The GSKE, however, questioned the management of the need to address such a meeting when the negotiation exercise had just begun with the GSKE union, which it claimed, is the largest union in GSL.
The GSKE general body later met at New Vaddem, where they passed a resolution unanimously rejecting the CMD’s proposal and insisted that demands of the union be accepted at the earliest.
Demands unreasonable: Shipyard CMD
VASCO: Rejecting the allegations of the Goa Shipyard Kamgar Ekvott (GSKE) union, GSL CMD R Adm. Shekhar Mital said majority of the workers had given the forms and were urging GSL to go ahead with the proposed wage revision.
“The allegations being made are not really right. In fact, a majority of workers in the unions have given us the forms and they are urging us to move ahead quickly,” said Mital, while addressing a news conference.
“What we have agreed with them (GSKE) and given them is over 28 per cent increase in wage and that is not less. In fact, year over year for excellent performance, we have given them the highest PLI (Productivity Linked Incentives) and even more medical facilities.”
“For the first time in GSL history, we are giving them pension and we are taking the liability for their entire life. Is it a small measure? Demands should be reasonable,” said Mital.
The CMD claimed that GSL had agreed to every single demand in the last 4-5 years.
“We have always been sympathetic and believed in participative management, where in both officers and workers work together to get best results and share awards.”
“This is a government undertaking and there is a limit to demands and I am also bound by the directors, the board and the government.”
“The government’s instructions are clear that we are to support on our own and the future profitability is to be considered before we clear wage increase,” Mital added.
