Banglore,The renewed talks between Toyota
Kirloskar Motor management and employees union to end the deadlock over labour
issues at two plants near Bangalore have failed.
"The renewed talks have failed,
suspension of thirty labourers is the contentious issue," Additional
Labour Commissioner J T Jinkalappa.
To a question, he said: "The
next step will be that we will have to prohibit the lockout, we will take that
decision in a day or two, first we will have to submit the report to the
government after that the decision will happen."
Toyota Kirloskar Motor, the
subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corp of Japan, had on March 16 declared a lockout,
following the failure of talks between the management and the union over wage
negotiations.
The company in a statement said:
"We appreciate and thank the government of Karnataka for their efforts for
the conciliation process between our Union and Management. Despite the
Labour Department's efforts the matter has not been concluded yet."
"We now are in touch with the
Labour Department for the next steps in this issue," it added.
On March 24, the management lifted
the lockout but employees did not resume work as they objected to signing a
good conduct undertaking as demanded by the company and pressed for
withdrawal of the suspension orders.
On last Thursday, the Labour
department had renewed talks in an attempt to bring both the parties to a
dialogue table to end the stalemate.
"Talks have failed, the
management is adamant on its stand. We want suspension of thirty workers to be
withdrawn. We had even said that if company agrees for the withdrawal
of suspension we are ready to sign the undertaking on the representation
of the union (not on individual basis) with some alteration on conditions
mentioned in it," Toyota Kirloskar Employees Union President Prasanna
Kumar said.
"We will wait and see what
government will do. Labour department officials have told us they will submit a
report to Additional Chief Secretary labour department," he said.
Kumar also pointed out that relay
fast by union employees as a mark of protest has entered 14th day. The
union is demanding a wage hike of Rs 4,000 as against Rs 3,050 proposed by the
management.
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