The talks between Coal India management and workers union on salary revision failed on Friday, two weeks after they agreed in principle to hike wages by 25%.

Mr NC Jha chairman of CIL said that "The Coal India management and workers union could not come to an agreement as in our opinion their [workers unions] demands were very high.”

Secretary General of Indian National Mineworkers Federation SQ Zama said that "The meeting between CIL management and worker unions ended in a failure."

He added that "The meeting failed as the management refused to accept some of our demands including, increasing the underground allowance from 12.5% to 15%.”

Both the management and unions are likely to meet again soon to sort out the differences.

A fortnight ago on January 13, CIL, had agreed in principle to increase wages of workers by 25%.

A senior CIL official had said that "An agreement is almost finalized between unions and CIL and the wage hike will be around 25%. The hike is from the level of June, 2011 adding that the additional outgo is estimated at INR 4,000 crore."

(Sourced from PTI)