Employees of the Bosch plant in Adugodi here took out a procession on Monday appealing to the State government to intervene and direct the management to expedite wage negotiations.
The members of the MICO Employees’ Association have been on a strike since September 16, which has affected work at the auto component maker’s plant. As per their estimates, it has resulted in production loss worth several crores a day. The protest was launched after the wage negotiations, for 2013–16, did not yield the desired results.
The ‘Vidhana Soudha Chalo’ procession which began at Town Hall was not allowed beyond Freedom Park, said association president S. Prasanna Kumar.
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As Chief Minister Siddaramaiah is on tour, an official from his Secretariat received a memorandum from the association. The demand was a direction to the Bosch plant management to conclude talks at the earliest. The management, he said, wanted the strike to be prohibited and wanted an adjudication on the ongoing talks.
Mr. Kumar said talks between the workers’ union and the management continued and there had been progress. The Labour Commissioner, he added, had asked the two sides to conclude the talks by September 30.