The West Bengal government is keen to intervene in the Dunlop crisis, with a worried West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharjee on Tuesday asked Labour Minister Md Amin to immediately look into the suspension of work notice served by the management on the 4,500 workforce of the company's Sahagunj unit on Monday. The West Bengal government is keen to intervene in the Dunlop crisis, with a worried West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharjee on Tuesday asked Labour Minister Md Amin to immediately look into the suspension of work notice served by the management on the 4,500 workforce of the company's Sahagunj unit on Monday.
Amin told newsmen after receiving a joint memorandum from the two main unions of the company that the state government would talk to the Dunlop management, but it was yet to receive a copy of the suspension of work notice from the company. Terming the Dunlop managements's action as 'improper', Amin said the way suspension of work notice was served on workers, is not proper as it did not follow norms.
The minister said he had asked the labour secretary to get in touch with the management so that the unit is reopened as early as possible. CITU-affiliated Dunlop workers' union general secretary Dipankar Roy, INTUC-affiliated Dunlop rubber factory labour union leader Ranjit Neogy, along with CPI(M) leader Santasree Chatterjee submitted a joint memorandum to the Labour Minister seeking his intervention for immediate reopening of the unit with a direction to the management to lift the illegal suspension of work notice.
Demanding payment of all arrear wages as also salary dues, the two unions urged the state government to evolve a revival scheme for the company so that it could do so 'in a viable manner'.

Bureau Report