Bombardier to continue negotiation with striking workers

The management of Bombardier Transportation India will continue to hold negotiations with its striking employees even as the Gujarat government declared the 25-day strike as illegal through a notification yesterday, a top company official said.
About 100 out of 600-odd workers at the company plant at Savli near here making metro rail bogies went on strike from June 3 protesting transfer of 34 workers to Delhi to work on the Delhi Metro Rail project.
About 20 striking employees have already resumed work and 30 more have shown willingness to return to work, the company's Director (Communications) Harsh Mehta told PTI here today.

S Sonkar, a leader of the striking workers, claimed the transfer was unfair and it was carried out without taking them into confidence.
Mehta said workers were transferred after getting their consent and giving advance of Rs 27,000 to each of them.
He also said the company is prepared to concede their demand to form an union provided it is not led by an outsider.
Claiming that the workers' strike has not affected production, he said, over 550 workers have been working at the plant.