Police set up barricades to take control of the situation at the port on Thursday (Photo: Twitter)
A large number of workers at Adani Gangavaram Port in Andhra Pradesh’s Visakhapatnam held a protest on Thursday, August 17, following call for strike given by the workers union.
The protesters demanded a hike in a minimum wages of contractual workers. They demanded that the management pay contractual workers a minimum wage of Rs 36000 monthly. The workers also sought reinstatement of some suspended employees.
Port operations were affected due to the strike and subsequent protest. The state authorities deployed a huge contingent of police personnel to control the situation. However, a huge number of workers and union leaders had already reached the main gate of the port.
In an attempt to foil the protest, there was a scuffle between the police and workers in which several workers and at least ten policemen, including Gajuwaka CI, sustained injuries.
This post was last modified on August 17, 2023 4:31 pm