Around 8,500 non-executive employees at Bharat Electronics (BEL) are joining the nationwide strike called by the Committee of Public Sector Trade Unions on August 20, 2008, the company informed the BSE on Monday.
The company’s workers across its units and corporate office are striking work to register their protest on various issues like disinvestment, privatisation, outsourcing in PSUs, relativity between workers and executives in pay and benefits among others.
The wage revision is due in BEL and many other PSUs with effect from January 2007, a company spokesperson said. BEL has 12,371 workers, of which the executive staff is around 3,000.
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