In the presence of Housing Minister S Muthusamy, a wage hike settlement talk was held for lorry headload workers in Erode on Thursday following a week long strike of workers. FATIA President VK Rajamanikkam secretary Ravichandran, goods shed and regular lorry service associations functionaries Pingalan, Kalaimani, trade union leaders ex-MLA KS Thennarasu, R Manoharan, Thangavelu, Arumugam, S Gopal , SR Raja and lawyer Radhakrishnan attended the meeting. Accodingly, 26 and 21 percent hike was announced for the workers from August 1 for next 3 years.