HAL employees to go on indefinite strike demanding fair wage hike

BENGALURU: Workers of Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) are planning to hold an indefinite strike from October 14, demanding a fair and early settlement of wage revision. The tussle between the All India HAL Trade Unions Coordination Committee (AIHALTUCC) and HAL management is going on since 2017, when the wage hike was due.

First, the workers union had protested in early 2017 when the HAL management revised the periodicity of wage hike from 5 years to 10 years. The union, however, accepted the 10-year periodicity after the management assured to provide a good wage revision to the workmen.

After the periodicity issue was sorted, the employees were unhappy with the wage hike. "After six meeting, the workers were offered a mere 8% hike in gross salary compared with executives who have got up to 35% rise in the gross salary," the union stated.


"If the management is unable to give their workmen what is deserved and due to them from any reasons or under the guise of affordability, we hereby once again demand you to take back the wages of executives too, with arrears settled against 2017 wage revision."

"As the management did not come up with fair offers to settle the long pending wage revision of employees, unions are left with no option but to go for direct action in support of the demand for fair and early settlement of wage revision," the union said, announcing an indefinite strike.