As a result of negotiations between the parties during the pendency of the said disputes before the Industrial Court D.A. was agreed to be paid at the rate of 95 of the Ahmedabad Rate of D.A. with effect from January 1, 1974, as will appear from an interim award of the Industrial Court dated June 21, 1974.
Appeal from the Judgment and Order dated the 16th December, 1975 the Gujarat High Court in Special Civil Appln.
Awards were later made bY the Court in companyformity with the said settlement in the pending disputes some time in August and September, 1974.
690 of 1976.
The prevalent D.A. in 1973 in the mills with which we are companycerned was 90 of the Ahmedabad Rate.
Hence the above references were pending before the Industrial Court.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by GOSWAMI, J. This appeal on certificate is from the judgment of the High Court of Gujarat.
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Civil Appeal No.
The union was raising the aforesaid disputes for increasing the D.A. to 100 of the Ahmedabad Rate with effect from October 1, 1972.
M. Tarkunde, K.L. Hathi and Mrs. P.C. Kapur for Re spondent No.
The appellants 1 and 2 are respectively the Union of India and the Regional Provident Fund Commissioner.
The 1st respondent is Majur Mahajan Mandal hereinafter to be described as the union , a registered trade union representing the majority of the textile workers of the five textile mills of Baroda re spondents 2 to 6 who are number represented before us and who will be described hereinafter as the mills, Since some time in 1973, industrial disputes in respect of dearness allowance D.A. had been pending between the union and the mills in five references before the Industrial Court, Gujarat, being Reference Nos.
571/75.
The rate of D.A. for the employees in the companyton textile industry in Ahmedabad had earlier been fixed by an award of an industrial Tribunal which will be referred to hereinafter as the Ahmedabad Rate.
Thereafter by further negotiations the disputes regarding D.A. were finally resolved by the mills and the union entering into a settlement on June 28, 1974, by fixing D.A. at 100 of the Ahmedabad Rate with effect from January 1, 1974.
406, 407, 408, 409 and 421 of 1973.
S. Sanghi and Girish Chandra for the Appellants.
