PUDUCHERRY: Workers of the Anglo-French Textile (AFT) mills gathered on the factory premises on Tuesday, seeking salary arrears and reopening of the mill at the earliest. Owing to severe funds crunch, the employees have been on ‘leave with salary’ for the past 51 days. At present, only the tailoring unit and the showroom of the factory are open. Led by AIADMK MLA A Baskar, the workers met AFT’s joint managing director S D Sundaresan and other top officials to press for their demands.The AIADMK leader urged the mill officials to take steps to immediately renovate the infrastructure of the mill and resume production in its three units. The MLA also urged them to disburse the salary arrears.According to a source in the factory management, the employees would be given the salary arrears for a month, on Wednesday.The staff were earlier given the salary arrears on December 29, a day before cyclone Thane struck, causing widespread destruction to the factory premises and other infrastructure.At present, the factory employs 1,962 persons including all the officials, staff and workers in its three units. A sum of Rs 3.7 crore is needed to meet the salary requirement of a month.
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