Bengaluru: The Karnataka government on Tuesday stepped in to help resolve the imbroglio over the lockout at Toyota Kirloskar Motor’s two manufacturing plants at Bidadi near here, saying it was working for a fair settlement.
“The government is trying to reach a fair settlement between company management and workers’ union. The deputy labour commissioner will take a decision. We hope both plants will resume production soon,” labour minister Parameshwar Nayak said. Mr Nayak held separate talks with the management and the workers’ union.
Toyota Kirloskar declared a lockout at the two plants at Bidadi on March 16 following the failure of talks between the management and the union over wage negotiations. The union is demanding a wage hike of Rs 4,000 as against Rs 3,050 proposed by the management, Toyota Kirloskar Workers Union president Prasanna Kumar said.
He said the management was diverting attention from the issue of their charter of demands related to workload and safety by imposing the lockout.
