Indian Coffee House in Kerala a famous cooperative organisation founded by legendary communist leader A.K. Gopalan seems to be in crisis. It is said its workers are badly paid and their service conditions are poor.
For the first time ever in several decades the workers of the cooperative are on the war path demanding a fair spike in their salaries and their job terms and conditions to be revisited. Some workers are reported to have lately left the organisation on account of low compensation.
P.V. Balakrishnan president Indian coffee house workers cooperative society says the propsals for revision of salaries and recognition of the two new branches have been pending with the authorities concerned for the last several months but to no avail.
Sources say, the coffee cooperative is doing well in financial terms. It has scores of branches across the state employing just shy of a thousand workers, sources add.
The left dominated coffee cooperative-says a source familiar with the affairs of the organisation could easily afford to pay the workers if it so decided.