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Chennai , Feb. 12

THE employees' association of Chennai Container Terminal Ltd (CCTL) has issued a strike notice to the management for adopting "unfair labour practice."

The Chennai Container Terminal Employees Association issued the notice on Saturday following the suspension of four of its members - the President, General Secretary, Vice-President and a committee member - by CCTL.

According to an association official, CCTL is adopting unfair labour practices by not all allowing management employees to join their union. The management also threatened the employees with dismissal if they joined the union, the official said.

CCTL, in a press release, said it served suspension notice pending enquiry on four workmen who barged into the boardroom where the CCTL Chief Executive Officer, Mr Ennarasu Karunesan, was holding a meeting, on February 7.

The workmen indulged in "gross indisciplinary behaviour, defiance of authority and disruption of CEO's meeting with unruly behaviour with an ulterior motive," which led to an abrupt end to the meeting .

The workmen also barged in to the cabin of the General Manager (Engineering Services), who was holding a meeting with his officers the same day, and used "unparliamentary words" against him besides "threatening," the release said.

CCTL said it granted its non-management staff a wage hike of 43 per cent in July 2004. Wages were also restructured to include a performance-based incentive component.

As per the provisions of the long-term settlement signed with the union on August 2, 2004, before the Regional Labour Commissioner, the union agreed not to resort to go-slow tactics or strikes.

"They have blatantly violated the terms of the legal long-term settlement by resorting to frequent disruptions in work on not less than six occasions, creating uncertainty and deep concern in the trade," the release said.

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