BATHINDA, April 28 -- Activists from the Bhartiya Kisan Union (Ekta Ugrahan) and its allied groups partially blocked the Bathinda-Amritsar highway on Monday after joining an ongoing protest by a section of workers at a textile unit in Jeeda village, Bathinda.

Alleging low wages and an unfriendly work environment, a section of workers, mostly women, have been protesting for over a week.

Protesters are demanding a minimum monthly salary of Rs.26,000 and blaming the factory management for withholding fair annual increments.

The unit has nearly 2,500 workers and several of them reside in the hostel located on the factory complex.

The district authorities said that work at the factory is going on even as a section of workers stays away in ...