Implement 2007 wage settlement, barge workers to barge owners

United Bargemen Association on Sunday demanded that the 2007 wage settlement be implemented. They say that they will not allow the system which does not look after the rights of the workers to continue any further.

UBA's Puti Gaonkar said that the facilities like 16 days and 14 days off and a particular scale of salaries issue that was to be paid by barge owners in the 2007 charter of rates has not been fully implemented though the barge owners carried out business after SC gave directions to transport ore collected after 2008.

The barge owners say that they are trying to sort out the issue even as they give the reason that mining is really not happening in the state.