The Recycle Textile Federation has decided that open end mills will halt grey yarn production for a day on April 2 in support of the job working powerloom unit owners in Coimbatore and Tiruppur districts who are on an indefinite strike since March 19 demanding higher wages.
If the weavers continued with the strike, the open end mills may have to suspend yarn production since there is no demand for yarn from the weavers, he said. The Federation has urgerd the dsitrict administration and the State government to intervene and find a settlement to the issue.
Meanwhile, S.E. Bhoopathi, president of the job working powerloom unit owners association, said the State government promised on Tuesday evening that a solution will be reached in a couple of days and hence, the powerloom weavers will not stage a protest on Wednesday as planned earlier.
K. Annamalai, State president of the Bharatiya Janata Party, said in a statement on Monday that the production loss because of the weavers’ strike was ₹30 crores a day. Several workers employed in powerloom units will lose jobs if the strike continued. The job working units are hit by increase in power costs, labour costs and prices of other inputs. Hence, the government should hold talks with the master weavers and job workers and arrive at a solution at the earliest.
Published – April 01, 2025 08:27 pm IST
