Date:26/03/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/03/26/stories/2008032659860900.htm

Tamil Nadu

TASMAC employees take out rally

Special Correspondent

— Photo: R. Shivaji Rao

IN SUPPORT OF THEIR DEMANDS: TASMAC employees staging a demonstration near the State Guest House, Chepauk, on Tuesday.

CHENNAI: Members of the Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation (TASMAC) Employees Federation took out a procession here on Tuesday demanding regularisation of employment.

They demanded salary equivalent to that of government employees, an eight-hour working shift, weekly holiday and systematic incentive.

The procession, which began from Munroe Statue on Anna Salai, passed through Wallajah Road.

Demonstration

Later, a demonstration was held in which Centre of Indian Trade Unions State general secretary A. Soundararajan spoke. The Federation is affiliated to the CITU.