Truck drivers of the Indian Oil Corporation’s (IOC) bottling plant at Inamkulathur struck work on Thursday and Friday demanding that they should be allowed to continue even if the lorry owners changed after the expiry of the contract period with IOC authorities. The stir came to a close on Friday evening following talks with revenue and IOC officials.
The drivers resorted to the stir following intimation by the IOC bottling plant authorities that the contract period for the present lorry owners ended on July 31 following four-month-long extension.
Long-pending demand
The demand of the truck drivers, numbering 140, was that they had been working for the past 15 years and that they should be allowed to continue even if there was a change in contract for lorry operators.
Their contention was that they would be deprived of their livelihood if they were removed in the event of change of contract period for the lorry operators and a new set of drivers were to be engaged.
Following the stir, a meeting was convened by the Srirangam Revenue Divisional Officer Rajarajan in which CITU district secretary Raja, representatives from the truck drivers association, police, and IOC officials took part.
