Wage Settlement for Port/Dock Workers

The information was given in a written reply in Lok-Sabha to-day by the Minister of Shipping, Sh. G.K. Vasan, the All India Port and Dock Workers’ Federation has submitted a charter or demands to the Government or Indian Ports Association (IPA) and has asked for speedy wage settlement. There are 72 demands and around 252 sub-demands in the charter of demands submitted jointly by the 5 recognized federations. The last Wage settlement was reached between the port & Dock Workers and the Management on 19.01.2010 and was implemented w.e.f. 01.01.2007 and covered around 56000 port and dock workers. A Bipartite Wage Negotiation Committee has been constituted on 7th June, 2012 by the Government for looking into the wage structure of Class III and Class IV Port & Dock employees/workers and allied matters.