{
  "id": 16828393,
  "title": "Maharashtra Sugar Workers Suspend Indefinite Strike After Labour Minister Akash Fundkar Assures Meeting With CM Devendra Fadnavis",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/28/maharashtra-sugar-workers-suspend-indefinite-strike-after-labour",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-28T00:58:29.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/mumbai/maharashtra-sugar-workers-suspend-indefinite-strike-after-labour-minister-akash-fundkar-assures-meeting-with-cm-devendra-fadnavis"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Maharashtra sugar workers have halted their indefinite strike after Labour Minister Akash Fundkar pledged a high-level meeting with Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to address their longstanding concerns. During the meeting chaired by Fundkar, officials from Cooperation and Labour departments, sugar factory representatives, and union leaders discussed the various demands raised by the sugar workers. The proposed meeting will delve into issues such as unpaid wages, reopening of struggling factories, worker resettlement, wage structures for permanent and contractual employees, access to government welfare schemes, and the implementation of the Maharashtra Industrial Relations Act, 1946. The strike, initiated on October 22, involved workers from seven cooperative and three private sugar factories. Following the assurance of a resolution meeting, the Sugar Workers’ Federation declared the indefinite strike suspended.",
  "summary": "Mumbai, October 27, 2026: Sugar workers in Maharashtra have temporarily suspended their indefinite strike after Labour Minister Akash Fundkar assured them that a high-level meeting would be convened soon in the presence of Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to discuss their long-pending demands. The proposed meeting will bring together officials from the Cooperation and Labour departments,…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}