Bosch strike: Talks with management tomorrow to resolve issues

The first round of talks with the management would be held tomorrow to resolve issues at German auto component major Bosch Ltd's Adugodi plant, where strike by workers entered the second day today, a union official said.
"We will be holding a bilateral talks with the management as per the direction of Additional Labour Commissioner Narasimhamurthy to solve issues pending for the past 22 months," Mico Employees Association President S Prasanna Kumar told PTI here.
After the bilateral meeting, a tripartite meeting, involving the union, the company management and the Additional Labour Commissioner, will be held on September 20, he said.

The workers had gone on an indefinite strike yesterday claiming that the management planned to cut down some medical benefits and demanded productivity "which cannot logically happen to the level of their expectation."
While the company yesterday in a filing to the BSE described the demands of the workers as "unreasonable" and the strike is illegal.
The company has 2,575 permanent workers, 700 temporary workers and 1,000 contract workers, Kumar said.
The management has also started issuing transfer orders to employees to shift to Bidadi plant near Bangalore without even discussing facilities like transport, he said.
The company's Bangalore plant has a history of workers' unrest, and the plant was shut down temporarily following a strike in September 2011.