Work in public sector National Aluminium Company (Nalco) was today severely affected with various employees' union of the company going on a strike to protest against the "fresh attempts" of the government to privatize the profit making PSU.
The strike coincided with the general country-wide agitation by the left-oriented trade unions today to protest against the economic policies of the Centre.
Official reports said work had come to a grinding halt at the aluminium major's smelter and captive power plant (CPP) at Angul as also the refinery and bauxite mining complex at Damanjodi in Korapur district. A skeleton staff, however, had been deployed to take care of the pot line in the Angul smelter, sources said.
Nalco employees also staged a demonstration outside the company's corporate office in Bhubaneswar. While class three and four employees of the company had abstained from work, the executives were present in the office. Twenty seven pro-strike activists were rounded up outside the Nalco office for picketing.