Staff strike for wage revision grounds HAL operations
India | October 14, 2019 18:00 ISTTerming the strike illegal, the company claimed that the employees were offered the best package revision.
Terming the strike illegal, the company claimed that the employees were offered the best package revision.
The 55-year-old aerospace major has about 20,000 employees in 5 production complexes in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Koraput in Odisha, Lucknow and Nashik in Maharashtra and 4 research and development (R&D) centres across the country.
The employees' unions of the city-headquartered HAL have served notice at all locations of the Defence PSU to go on the indefinite strike from October 14 with regard to the settlement of wage revision effective from January 1, 2017.
Addressing a press conference here after meeting Congress President Rahul Gandhi over the issue, the employees accused Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman of "attempting to build a false narrative" that HAL is incapable of building the Rafale fighter jet.
A gunman of an Additional Sessions Judge opened fire at his wife and son injuring them seriously in Gurugram on Saturday afternoon. The incident took place at a busy market place in sector 49.
Rahul Gandhi meets HAL employees in Bengaluru.
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