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No staff reduction at Sahagunj unit, says Pawan Kumar Ruia

KOLKATA: Dunlop India Chairman Pawan Kumar Ruia said that he was not planning any retrenchment or reduction of 1,170 people on the rolls at the mother unit at Sahagunj. On the Ambattur unit, he said talks on a final settlement with the 700 workers were being held with the unions.

Mr. Ruia said that while he had no intention of selling surplus land at Sahagunj in Hooghly district now, he would use any idle land for the survival of the company, if the need was there. “I have no intention of doing this now, but would not hesitate to do so if the company required this land for its survival,” he said.

Addressing a press conference three days after the reopening of the Sahagunj unit, he said that while so far 100 out of the 229 people needed for carrying out maintenance work have resumed duty, more were expected to join in.

Mr. Ruia announced a Rs. 1,000 ad hoc payment to all the workers (barring the 25 charge-sheeted for anti-company activities) prior to the Holi festivities.

He said talks were being held with the majority unions, the INTUC and the CITU, for settling the payments for two months — October and November, 2008, — when there was no production. A work suspension was declared after the company failed to reach an agreement with the unions on a Rs. 2,000 monthly package for the workers over a proposed six-month closure period from October.

He also said that some people under the banner of a group called Save Dunlop Committee of Citizens were intimidating workers and management, who were trying to enter the factory premises. “We do not recognise any union other than the two registered ones,” he said.

On the Ambattur plant, indications were that the company was keen to relocate the factory from its 32 acre-sprawl at the present premises which has become a commercial area.

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