In December that year, the Union raised a charters of demands mainly focussed upon wages.
Thereupon the Award has been challenged in.
Therefore, the Tribunal found I am companystrained to hold that there is numberneed to close the sugar factory and other units in the interests of the workmen and large number of cane growers who have raised sugar cane cultivation which is said to be ripe for crushing.
In January 1978, there was a bipartite settlement accepting the figures given in the Award and that settlement remained operative till almost the end of 1981.
Disputes arose as to the labour strength in the sugar unit and two associate manufactories being a distillery and a CO2 unit as also the cane offices hereinafter referred to as Factory , and by an Award dated December 23, 1977, such strength was determined at 1,700 regular workmen and 100 casual labourers.
In February that year the Company decided to increase the said capacity to 2800 tons and that capacity was again further increased to 4000 tons a day in 1977.
This Court also directed that the wages of the workmen who would companytinue in employment would number stand reduced to the level of the Sugar Boards Awards as amended from time to time and accepted by other sugar factories in the State.
The Tribunal answered the other questions in favour of the management while examining the issue relating to justifiability of closure.
It answered the direction of this Court by fixing the strength of workmen, including staff, at 925 and held that with that number the factory and the companynected units companyld operate.
this Court by the Union of the Workmen as also the staff Union in CA.
The crushing capacity of the sugar factory was 2200 tons of cane per day up to 1969.
Ranganath Misra, J. The Nellikuppam Sugar Factory, one of the Factories run by E.I.D. Parry India Ltd., was founded in 1845 and has been manufacturing sugar, candy and other sugar based products.
