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Friday, June 23, 2006

IOC bottling plant reopens


MALDA, June 23: The IOC bottling plant, closed recently in the wake of labour trouble, reopened today after a tripartite meeting between the IOC authorities, contractors and protesting trade unions succeeded in temporarily resolving the dispute yesterday. Ceasework for the past two weeks at the IOC bottling plant by the Citu-led trade union forced the IOC authorities to issue a closure notice a few days back to avoid any untoward incident. Labourers had demanded a wage hike and enrolment of more labourers in the plant to reduce work pressure at the unit. The additional district magistrate of Malda, Mr BP Barat, said the workers resumed work today. He hoped that with the reopening of the plant, the present crisis of LPG cylinders in the market would end. Mr Barat added they plan to convene another meeting by 15 July. SNS

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