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Joint Labour Commissioner (JLC) Ponnuswamy on Wednesday advised both the Yamaha India management and the striking employees to end the 13-day strike at the Oragadam plant.
The JLC told the union representing the striking employees that it was not correct on their part to go on strike without any prior intimation. On its part, the management should consider cancelling the job termination of the two employees, said S Kannan, Kanchipuram District President of CITU, representing the striking workers in the conciliatory talks that went on for over eight hours.
“As advised by the JLC, we will talk to the management in the morning and tell them not to take any action on those who were part of the strike and also cancel the termination orders. If they accept our demands, we will return to work, or else the strike will continue,” he told BusinessLine .
Meanwhile, there was high drama at midnight when four employees of the Japanese two-wheeler major at the plant involved in the ongoing strike were arrested from their homes at around 1.30 am this morning, alleged a senior union official representing the workers.
The arrest was made after a few workers climbed on to mobile towers during a protest on September 26. “High level repression has started by the Tamil Nadu government. We seriously condemn the arrests,” Kannan said. On Tuesday, nearly 500 workers were arrested for protesting near the Kanchipuram bus terminus. They were let off later.
Termination of services
The trouble at the plant, about 60 km west of Chennai, started on September 22 due to a sudden sit-in strike following the termination of two workers belonging to the newly-created India Yamaha Motor Thozhilalar Sangham (India Motor Workers Association), which is being registered. The workers were allegedly terminated for approaching the Labour Department to discuss matters related to the welfare of workers.
Backing the two, 800 permanent workers went on a sudden strike and even slept inside the factory last night as a mark of protest. However, over 2,000 contract workers continued to work, sources said.
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