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An uneasy calm pervades the production facility at Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM) in Bidadi, 32 km from Bengaluru. The reason: A lockout that has been imposed by the management since November 10 over workers who went on strike citing overwork.
Labour unrest is not new to this 23-year-old plant — there have been at least four since it was set up, with one lockout in 2014 stretching for over a month. “This, even as Toyota’s India subsidiary is known for being one of the best pay masters,” said B C Prabhakar, labour law and industrial relations expert, also a president of
