Workers at utility vehicle major Mahindra & Mahindra’s Nashik facility on Tuesday issuing a notice to the management to go on strike on or after March 11, if their demands for higher wages were not settled by the company.
Production work, too, was temporarily disrupted in two assembly shops at M&M’s Nashik unit for about three hours on Tuesday, resulting in a loss of 90 units.
The company produces high-volume utility vehicles Xylo, Scorpio, Bolero and sedan Verito at the Nashik unit.
M&M confirmed it has received a notice from the employees’ union at the facility.
The workers at the Nashik have been agitating for higher wages after the three-year wage pact lapsed earlier in February this year.
According to industry sources, wage negotiations have been on for over six months between the management and the workers at the company.
The workers have now started showing signs of disquiet and have demanded settlement of their charter of demands by Monday, failing which they would go ahead with a production strike.
Workers at M&M’s Nashik unit had earlier gone on a day-long tool-down strike on May 6, 2011 to demand higher wages for a third of the workforce.
They had also done a fortnight-long strike in May 2009 to protest against the suspension of union leader Madhavrao Dhatrak.
“The management is in regular dialogue with the union for the normal wage negotiation process and will put in its best efforts to reach a mutually agreeable settlement at the earliest possible.
“The appropriate government agencies are being kept informed of the same and are also part of the discussions in this regard,” said M&M.
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