After three days of protest and agitation, over 5000 temporary employees of Tata Motors agreed to end their strike on Friday late night following an agreement to regularise about 200 workers.
A communiqué issued by the company on Saturday said: "In our continued commitment to maintain cordial relations with our workforce and in the long term interest of the organisation, we have successfully concluded our discussion with the concerned members and they have understood and appreciated our offer of providing permanency to 200 workers as we have followed in the past. The section of the temporary workers who were instigated and misguided by the vested parties have ended the agitation and the matter stands resolved."
Company sources revealed that yesterday's talks between a 10-member delegation of temporary workers with the management till evening remained inconclusive. " Though the management agreed to rectify the payment related disputes but the deadlock continued over the temporary workers demand of regularising services ( making them permanent) of 500 of them. The management offered to regularise services of 200 such workers," said a source in the company. However, in last the workers agreed to accept the proposal.
Temporary workers of Tata Motors had on Wednesday went on a strike protesting against the wage revision and curtailment in other facilities by the management. About 5,000had joined the strike.
Company sources revealed that production was affected due to the agitation. However, management of the automobile major claimed that production was not hampered due to the strike by the temporary workmen.
With the plant manufacturing over 200 truck variants, ranging from multi-axle trucks, tractor-trailers, tippers, mixers and special application vehicles, the Jamshedpur facility has led the company's evolution into a manufacturer of global repute. Besides India, these vehicles are sold in South Africa, Russia, Myanmar, the SAARC region and the Middle East.
The Jamshedpur facility was Tata Motors' first, set up in 1945, to manufacture steam locomotives. It led the company's foray into commercial vehicles in 1954. It has been modernized through the decades, with a particularly intense scale in the last 10 years.