“If they go on strike, I will take the broom and clean the streets of Panjim myself. If that’s what I have to do I will,” he said.
Speaking at an event on Sunday the minister said the workers had the right to ask for their rights but said it was wrong on their part to stop work in the city.
“Work efficiency in the city is now 50 percent. I agree, they deserve a hike but at the same time the city can’t be held at ransom. The garbage is piling, the streets are dirty, this is unacceptable,” said Kunko-lienkar.
It may be recalled that members belonging to the contract labour force employed at the CCP demanded they be given a permanent job rather than contract in addition to payment of pending wages. The workers through their union took up the issue last October and following assurance from Deputy Chief Minister Francis D’Souza, called off their strike. But months after this assurance, the union said nothing was being done reigniting the protests.
They had initially served a 21 day notice to the CCP giving them a 15 day extension but with no amicable solution, the union have begun a strike they called Black Day- Black Tea.
