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Indian dockers’ federations to sign five-year wage deal

15 January 2010

Dockers in India are set to gain from a wage deal and other benefits when a new settlement is signed next week.

The five-year agreement, which was brokered between five dockers’ federations, including the ITF-affiliated All India Port and Dock Workers’ Federation, and the Indian Ports Association, will be signed on 18 January.

Members of the federations had intended to embark on industrial action, including an indefinite strike, at all major ports across India on 4 January. They announced the action following the port association’s rejection of their demand for wage, allowance and other benefit arrears with retrospective effect from 1 January 2007.

Mass rallies and demonstrations were held on 22 December 2009 in preparation for a nationwide strike. However, the strike was averted after a meeting of the dockers’ federations, the secretary of shipping and the chief labour commissioner concluded that all wage revisions, amounting to a 23 per cent rise, would be paid retrospectively.

Mahendra Sharma, ITF Asia Pacific regional secretary, commented: “We congratulate the Indian port workers’ union on this historic victory. It is a particularly significant achievement given that we’re still in a recession.”

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