BHADRAK: Suspension of production in the Charge Chrome Plant (CCP) of Facor Company at Randia has left hundreds of workers high and dry. Over 300 daily contract labourers are the worst sufferers. The CCP management closed the plant last Tuesday following the workers’ unrest in the factory and declared lockout and served notice to that effect to its 270 odd employees. But the closure has robbed the 300 daily labourers, engaged by various contractors as well as management on the plant premises, of their livelihood. Most of them are migrant tribals from Ghatagaon, Anandapur of Keonjhar district and Thakurmunda, Jasipur and Rairangpur in Mayurbhanj district. “They mostly get the work done through the contractors in the plant,” said Dibyasing Nayak, a labour leader. They are now forced to leave their homes and relatives looking for greener pastures. Meanwhile, any negotiation is yet to begin between the management and the workers’ union. “The rift took place due to the death of a contract labourer Manguli Jena on the plant premises. Jena was run over by a truck of the company on June 26. The workers union demanded ` 15 lakh compensation and a job to the bereaved family,” said Nilamadhaba Das, general secretary of the workers’ union. The irate workers allegedly ransacked the administrative building when the management did not agree to their demands. The management in retaliation declared a lockout, said Bighnajit Mohapatra, District Labour officer. However the management was ready to pay `50,000 as compensation but the workers did not accept it, said Dillip Mohapatra, Personnel Manager of CCP. Asked, the DLO said he had reported the matter and situation of the workers to the Government.
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