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Thursday, Aug 14, 2003
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Petroleum Corporate - Trade & Labour Unions ONGC staff stay away from work Our Bureau
ONGC employees sitting outside Vasudhara Bhavan, the ONGC office at Bandra in Mumbai, on Wednesday. They stopped work highlighting the safety-related issues following the copter crash that killed 27 people on Monday. - - Paul Noronha
Mumbai , Aug 13 ALTHOUGH most office staff of ONGC in Mumbai stayed away from work on Wednesday, oil and gas production at the offshore and work at offices across the country remained unhampered in spite of a call for "direct action" by some ONGC unions. A section of employees in Mumbai were in non-cooperation mode. Most reported to work at ONGC's Vasudhara Bhavan office in Bandra only to take part in demonstrations in the building courtyard. Emotions ran high as a crowd of ONGC employees shouted slogans condemning the management and in memory of their 22 colleagues who died in the helicopter crash off the Mumbai shore on August 11. Two of the 24 bodies have not yet been recovered from the accident site near the Neelam oil fields. These include ONGC official R.M. Murthy and co-pilot, D.K. Mittal. ONGC unions - a faction of Association of Scientific and Technical Officers (ASTO), Karmachari Sanghatna and Petroleum Employees Union - had called for "non-cooperation" on Tuesday by all employees across the country. The Bombay High Court had restrained the unions from striking work. According to the ASTO all-India chief and the management, only Mumbai staffers responded. Senior union members said that it was work as usual for employees in other parts of the country. "Demonstrations took place only outside the Mumbai office. Over 20 work centres across the country remained unaffected by the call for direct action," Mr Sridhar Vyas, all-India ASTO President, told Business Line. Over 4,000 employees in Mumbai are part of the ASTO in Mumbai. Its total strength stands at 23,000.
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