印度港口工人在达成新的五年工资协议后，于2024年8月28日取消了罢工，避免了对全球供应链的潜在破坏。

该协议是在经过长时间谈判后达成的，其中包括在五年内加薪8.5%。此前要求加薪10.6%的工会同意了修改后的条款。

这份薪资协议在一份由工会官员签署的文件中得到了确认，路透社查阅了这份文件。

港口工会和政府之间的谈判始于2021年3月，当时成立了两党工资谈判委员会。

6个月后，工人们提出了要求，希望在同年12月结束之前的工资协议。尽管经过了漫长的讨论，双方还是在新德里与印度主要港口当局达成了协议。 

印度工会中心工作委员会成员纳伦德拉·拉奥(Narendra Rao)表示，加薪将追溯至2022年1月1日。

印度12个主要国有港口的工会一直在敦促加薪和增加养老金福利，导致泰米尔纳德邦港口城市Thoothukudi的一次会议上发生罢工威胁。

金奈、科钦和孟买等港口每年处理16.2亿吨货物，如果发生罢工，将面临严重的运营中断。

印度是全球主要的出口国，严重依赖这些主要港口的顺利运营。

最近签署的工资协议避免了一场全国性的罢工，确保了货物通过该国一些最大的海运码头的持续流动。

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英文原文

The Indian port workers called off their strike on August 28, 2024, after reaching a new five-year wage agreement, avoiding a potential disruption to the global supply chain.



The agreement, reached after lengthy negotiations, includes an 8.5% wage increase spread over five years.  The workers’ unions, which had earlier demanded a 10.6% raise, agreed to the revised terms.



The salary agreement was confirmed in a document signed by union officials and reviewed by Reuters.



The negotiations between port workers’ unions and the government began in March 2021, when a bipartisan wage negotiating committee was established.



Six months later, the workers submitted their demands, expecting the end of the previous wage agreement in December of the same year.  Despite the lengthy discussions, an agreement was reached in New Delhi with India’s leading port authority.



Narendra Rao, a member of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions’ working committee, said that the pay hike will be retroactive to January 1, 2022.



The unions at India’s 12 major state-run ports had been urging salary increases and increased pension benefits, resulting in a strike threat at a meeting in Thoothukudi, a port city in Tamil Nadu.



Ports like Chennai, Cochin, and Mumbai, handling a combined 1.62 billion metric tons of cargo annually, would have faced major operational disruptions if the strike had occurred.



India, a leading global exporter, is heavily dependent on the smooth operation of these major ports.



The recently signed wage agreement has avoided a nationwide strike, ensuring the continued flow of goods through some of the country’s largest maritime terminals.

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