By IANS
Kathmandu : Work stopped at Dabur Nepal’s factory in southern Nepal Friday after the Maoist union started negotiating with the management over their six-point demands, including a pay hike.
The factory of Dabur Nepal, Dabur India’s wholly-owned subsidiary and Nepal’s biggest exporter, located in Birgunj town in southern Nepal, stopped production from the morning after the All Nepal Trade Union Federation (Revolutionary), the powerful trade union of the Maoists, gave a six-point demand to the management.
The demands include giving permanent jobs to seasonal workers and raising pay and perks.
The demands have been made mainly on behalf of the loaders, who are hired when the need arises.
Dabur Nepal officials said they expected the negotiations to be concluded and the factory to resume production soon.
Last month, loaders working for another Indian joint venture, Nepal Lever, had prevented work at its factory for two days with similar demands though they were not direct employees of the multinational but came through a contractor.
With the Maoists joining the government this year, labour trouble has increased as the trade unions associated with different parties have begun a fierce race for control of the working class.