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Isaac puts the blame on exporters, Govt.

By Our Staff Reporter

ALAPPUZHA DEC. 11. The CPI(M) State secretariat member and Mararikkulam MLA, T. M. Thomas Isaac, has said that the attitude of the coir exporters that they will not implement the clauses of the agreement reached by them with the trade unions last year and the passive attitude of the State Government on the issue are responsible for the present crisis in the coir sector.

According to Dr. Thomas Isaac, the present crisis in the coir sector was related to the concept of purchase price. In an agreement signed on December 6 last year, in the presence of Coir Board chairman, the exporters had agreed to hike the purchase price by three per cent, Dr. Thomas Isaac said.

But now the exporters claimed that they were not bound to implement the agreement as the Coir Board had done away with the concept. This argument does not hold ground as the agreement was not signed at the insistence of the Coir Board, opined the CPI(M) leader.

The exporters should hike the purchase price with effect from the date on which they signed the agreement, said Dr. Thomas Isaac.

He noted that the exporters had neither revised the wages of workers in the factories nor ended the system of arbitrary retrenchment of permanent workers as promised by them. Contract system was becoming the norm in the private companies now, he said.

He blamed the Government for not effectively interfering on the issue to save the workers. Dr. Isaac warned that the workers would intensify the strike if the Government failed to provide a favourable solution to the workers.

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