Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 2: The food grains handling operations were suspended for around two hours, as all the employees of the Food Corporation of India (FCI) working in different godowns held protest demonstration at their respective working places.
Addressing the employees, union leaders said that Area Manager Jammu had issued an order directing the field staff not to visit DO Jammu without prior notice.
They warned the management to withdraw the office order issued by Area Manager terming the same as insult to all working class. Employees are visiting DO for official work and also for sorting their personal grievances.
The unions unanimously decided that if the aforesaid order will not be withdrawn as well as pending overtime payments of new godown Jammu staff will not be released before August 7, then on August 8 lunch hour demonstration will be held in front of the office of FCI, DO Jammu.
The gathering was addressed by RL Sharma, Chamail Singh Chib, Surinder Kumar Sharma, Joginder Singh Chib, Bhanu Partap, Amarjit Singh, Joginder Singh, Sharif Hussain and Balbir Singh.