Workers and trade union leaders of Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP) have alleged that the Centre and the VSP management are deliberately trying to make the workers go for a strike to make the plant sick and pave the way for its strategic sale.
The workers, on the banner of the All Party Trade Unions, staged a dharna on the VSP premises, on Tuesday, demanding implementation of the revised wage agreement for VSP workers on par with their counterparts, working in steel plants under the Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL).
They said that the agreement, which has been pending for the past five years, is already being implemented in steel plants, which are under the purview of SAIL. VSP, which is under the purview of Rashtriya Ispath Nigam Limited (RINL), has failed to implement the agreement, they said.
