Meerut sanitation workers postpone strike for a day

MEERUT: Sanitation workers of the Meerut Municipal Corporation today postponed their ongoing strike for hike in honorarium, but employees threatened to go on strike again from tomorrow if their demands were not met.

District Magistrate Pankaj Yadav today said that the agitating sanitation workers have postponed their strike for a day after a meeting with him yesterday.

During the meeting, he understood their demands following which he made an appeal to them to postpone the strike, he said.

The Municipal Corporation needs to pass a proposal for the hike and send it to the administration, he said.

On the other hand, leader of sanitation workers T C Manotia said that the strike has been postponed for a day but no worker will pick or drop garbage.

"Future course of action would be decided on the outcome of the Corporation's board meeting," he said.

The sanitation workers were on strike since April 16 to push their demand for an increase in honorarium to Rs 14,990.