Port Union gets Centres recognition

CHENNAI: Members of the Port and Dock Labour Union, affiliated to Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS), thanked the Union Shipping Minister G K Vasan for recognising it as one of the seven major labour unions in the Chennai Port Trust (ChPT).R Santhanam, general secretary of the union, said, “We thank the Union Minister for recognising our union that was denied recognition from the Chennai Port Trust management despite requisite qualification, for the past two years.”The union’s recognition came via a letter from the chairman of the Chennai Port Trust recently.