Divestment: Salem Steel Plant workers to strike work on Apr 3

The employees of Salem Steel Plant would strike work on April 3 opposing the proposed disinvestment in three public sector steel plants, including their unit.
The employees also decided to join the protests by their counterparts in Vishveswaraiah Iron and Steel Plant in Karnataka and Alloy Steel Plant in West Bengal from April 11 if the government failed to withdraw its decision to sell the shares to private parties by then, CITU sources said.
When the Steel Authority of India (SAIL), under which the plants were functioning, was making profit, there was no need to sell the Salem plant to private parties, they said.

Tamil Nadu government should adopt a resolution in the assembly opposing the divestment and MPs from the state should raise the issue in Parliament, they said.