Besides staging a hunger strike on March 31 in Chennai, the Nokia India Employees Union have decided to further step up their protest post the Lok Sabha elections, its Honorary President, A Soundararajan said on Thursday.
"The Central and the State Governments should come forward and ensure that the due to the transfer of assets of Nokia to Microsoft (as per the $7.2billion deal), there should not be any job losses.
“We have decided to stage a one-day hunger fast on March 31 in this regard," Soundararajan told reporters in Chennai.
"After the elections we will do whatever possible to intensify our protest. What we request the Tamil Nadu Government is, if suppose the Nokia management seeks State government nod for closing the plant, the State government should not allow that to happen," he said.
As part of this move, he said the Union representatives have planned to meet the senior government officials from the Labour and Industries department soon.
"We will also meet Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa's support also," he said.
Observing that the production at the plant which was operating at three shifts producing 13 million handsets per month, he said, since January the three shift operation has been cut to two shifts and production has come down to four million handsets.
"Even in two shift operations, about 300
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