The Centre for Indian Trade Unioin-affiliated Toyota-Kirloskar Union on Monday demanded that the government prosecute the management, which had declared an indefinite lockout of the local unit, for violating the Industrial Dispute Act and for indulging in several other "illegal acts".
Protesting against the lockout declared on Sunday in the wake of a snap-strike by its employees demanding reinstatement of their three dismissed colleagues, the joint secretary of the union, R Ravi said the employees would continue with their indefinite agitation and demanded government intervention to arrive at a 'solution' to the vexed problem.
"The union calls upon the government to order that the three dismissals are kept in abeyance. The government should immediately refer the matter for a court of inquiry as per section 10 (1) (b) of the Industrial Dispute Act," state district committee of the CITU general secretary Meenakshi Sundaram told reporters in Bangalore on Monday.
Alleging that the Toyota Management world over and in India had "failed to respect the law of the land", he said the management ought to have before passing the dismissal orders sought permission under section 33 (1) (b) of the Industrial Dispute Act," All India vice president CITU V J K Nair said.
The strike and sit-in was to demand that the management withdraw the illegal dismissal order on three workmen whose case is pending before the Additional Industries Tribunal.
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