Chennai: Employees and workers federations of Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) have called for one month strike, protesting the Central government’s proposed move to corporatise OFB.
The OFB with its 41 factories, across the country, is to go on strike between 20 August and 19 September.
Director General Ordnance Factories (DGOF) and Chairman of OFB Saurabh Kumar had convened the meeting on Tuesday at headquarters in Kolkata with three federations – All India Defence Employees Federation, Indian National Defence Workers Federation and Bharatiya Pratiraksha Mazdoor Sangh – to discuss the proposed strike.
According to internal circulars in OFB, it is learnt that the Chairman had informed the federations representatives about the government’s proposed corporatisation of Ordnance Factories and the Cabinet is yet to decide.
The representatives unanimously informed the chairman that the decision to corporatise the ordnance factories is in violation of previous assurances given by the government.