Ashok Leyland workers strike [Friday, July 31, 2009]
The workers of Ashok Leyland organized a strike in the plant 1 in hosur on thursday to protest against the management’s move to transfer 353 employees to Plant II in Hosur which, the workers’ unions alleged, violated an agreement signed by the management and the unions two-and-a-half months ago.The unions’ representatives said they had signed a wage agreement with the management on May 5 this year which raised the monthly salary of the employees by an average of Rs. 5,500.The managment sources on the other hand said that they had only asked 353 excess employees whether they could be transferred to another plant. “We are not forcing any individual in this regard,”