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Cochin Contractor Strike Case Study

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THE COCHIN SHIPYARD STRIKE

The Cochin Shipyard Ltd. strike started on May 31, 2011. The contract workers at CSL went on a 20 day strike demanding a wage hike. At the time the workers went on strike, CSL had a major contract to build India’s first indigenous Air Defence ship, in which 2000 workers belonging to the Cochin Shipyard Workers’ Union, controlled by CITU, were employed. In addition, a lot of orders for platform supply vessels and ship repairs were badly hit. This resulted in total losses to CSL amounting to Rs.80 crores.
The workers were employed by about 170 small and big contractors in total, who were part of a Cochin Shipyard Contractors Federation. The CSL was hence not a direct party to the dispute between the two bodies, but an affected party, being the principal employer.
Cause: The bilateral agreement between the union and the federation, under which it carried out the projects for CSL, was due for revision since January 1, had not been taken up for consideration yet. The workers were demanding a commitment from CSL to pay a certain gratuity amount to them, without which they were threatening to not call off the strike. The management assured the union that their demand would be addresses separately, provided they were following statutory legal obligations. However, the union rejected this statement by the management. …show more content…

Paul Antony, the Chairman of the Bipartite Wage Negotiating Committee was signed on October 26, 2013, between the five major port and dock workers’ federations and the Indian Port Association, the governing body for major ports, in front of the Chief Labour Commissioner in New Delhi. The settlement would come into effect dated January 1, 2012. The agreement laid down payment of 10.5 per cent fitment on basic pay plus DA. It was laid down that the lowest paid employee would get Rs.4000 while the maximum pay would be

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