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Saturday, Jul 12, 2003
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Saturday, Jul 12, 2003 |
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Trade & Labour Unions Strike threat at Pepsi plant Our Bureau
Visakhapatnam, July 11 THE Pearl Bottling Private Ltd (Pepsi) Employees' Union at Madhurawada near here has served a strike notice in protest against the alleged moves of the management to break the union. At a press meet here on Friday, Dr K.S Mohana Kumar, General Secretary of the State unit of the Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC), to which the union is affiliated, said the strike notice was served on Thursday as a last resort, as the plant management had been making attempts to break the union by terminating the services of union office-bearers or transferring them to distant places illegally. He said the union was registered in February 2002 and as an immediate retaliatory step, the management had put an end to the services of four office-bearers and subsequently four more employees were transferred to distant places. These steps were challenged by the union in the AP High Court as well as labour courts. The attempts made by the Labour Department officials for conciliation had yielded no results, he said. "As the management is persisting with its retaliatory steps, we are left with no option but to serve a strike notice. In fact, we are not for confrontation and hope the management will call us for talks and settle the issue," he said. Mr Mohan Kumar alleged that the management had even resorted to a change of name of the company, which was earlier known as Krishna Mohan Beverages and Construction Ltd, to prevent the registration of the union. "The management is going to the extent of threatening to close down the bottling plant rather than allow the functioning of the union. It is really obstinate, and absurd, on the part of Pepsi to go those lengths. We are a law-abiding, orderly, pragmatic union. We will never harm the interests of the plant or the company. We have no ideological fixations," he said.
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