Ludhiana, February 11
Demanding payscales and other facilities on a par with the state government staff, employees of Guru Teg Bahadur (GTB) Charitable Hospital here continued their dharna for the second day today on the hospital premises.
Addressing the agitating employees, activists of the GTB Hospital Employees Association, Mr Nand Kishore, president, and Mr Beant Singh, secretary, of the association,
respectively, charged the management with going back on the agreement signed about three months back and adopting delaying tactics in accepting genuine demands.
The speakers at the dharna demanded that in addition to grant of government payscales and other allowances, all temporary employees be regularised, families of dependents of staff members be given free medical treatment, holidays as per state government calendars be allowed and all other demands earlier accepted by the management be implemented.
Representatives of several other trade unions like the Moulder and Steel Workers Union, Dr B.L. Kapur Memorial Hospital Employees Union and Dayanand Medical College and Hospital Employees Union attended the dharna and expressed solidarity with the agitating employees.
The dharna was also addressed by Mr Mandeep Singh, Mr Vir Pal, Ms Jaswinder Kaur and Ms Karamjit Kaur.
