{"id":503449,"date":"2022-07-06T11:43:13","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T06:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=503449"},"modified":"2022-07-06T11:43:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T06:13:13","slug":"tussle-over-5-billion-wages-a-new-risk-to-india-coal-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/tussle-over-5-billion-wages-a-new-risk-to-india-coal-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"Tussle over $5 billion wages a new risk to India coal supply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A key trade union at Coal India Ltd. has warned workers may strike over delays in finalizing salary increases, a move that would risk complicating efforts to meet soaring fuel demand.<\/p>\n<p>Talks held July 1 failed to reach any agreement over a pay deal, said Sudhir Ghurde, who represented Akhil Bharatiya Khadan Mazdoor Sangh, one of the leading unions, at the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Workers are seeking a 47% increase in wages &#8212; having earlier demanded a 50% hike &#8212; while Coal India has offered a 3% raise. A group of unions has written to the nation\u2019s Coal Minister Pralhad Joshi and urged him to intervene to help the sides conclude negotiations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A key trade union at Coal India Ltd. has warned workers may strike over delays in finalizing salary increases, a move that would risk complicating efforts to meet soaring fuel demand. Talks held July 1 failed to reach any agreement over a pay deal, said Sudhir Ghurde, who represented Akhil Bharatiya Khadan Mazdoor Sangh, one of the leading unions, at the meeting. Workers are seeking a 47% increase in wages &#8212; having earlier demanded a 50% hike &#8212; while Coal India has offered a 3% raise. A group of unions has written to the nation\u2019s Coal Minister Pralhad Joshi and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503449","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}