{"id":280434,"date":"2019-07-05T06:43:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T06:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=280434"},"modified":"2019-07-05T06:43:10","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T06:43:10","slug":"strike-stalls-coal-loading-at-haldia-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/strike-stalls-coal-loading-at-haldia-port\/","title":{"rendered":"Strike stalls coal loading at Haldia port"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A strike by contract labourers demanding a \u201clongstanding\u201d increase in their wages has stalled loading of coal onto ships at Haldia port since July 1.<\/p>\n<p>While leaders of a Trinamul Congress-backed trade union are insisting that the strike is wage-based, port sources claimed the impasse was created deliberately by the ruling party to thwart the loading by Prabha Utility Services, a firm based in Gujarat\u2019s Vadodara.<\/p>\n<p>It had won the contract for the loading over Sibdurga Visvakarma Engineering, a Haldia-based firm reportedly close to local Trinamul leaders. Sibdurga had won the contract in the two previous years.<\/p>\n<p>The sources said 20 labourers, who handled a conveyor belt that loaded coal onto ships, had announced the strike during the changeover to the new contractor on July 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A strike by contract labourers demanding a \u201clongstanding\u201d increase in their wages has stalled loading of coal onto ships at Haldia port since July 1. While leaders of a Trinamul Congress-backed trade union are insisting that the strike is wage-based, port sources claimed the impasse was created deliberately by the ruling party to thwart the loading by Prabha Utility Services, a firm based in Gujarat\u2019s Vadodara. It had won the contract for the loading over Sibdurga Visvakarma Engineering, a Haldia-based firm reportedly close to local Trinamul leaders. Sibdurga had won the contract in the two previous years. The sources said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[217,130,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}