CALCUTTA, February 8: Dunlop India Limited, a Manu Chhabria company, temporarily suspended its operations at its Shahagunj factory in Hooghly district yesterday, a company spokesman said here today.He said that the management was "forced to take the decision following a series of highly˙irregular and unruly acts by a section of the workforce there, disrupting the tenor of operations˙over the past several weeks and thwarting plant administration from normal discharge of duties".
According to the spokesman, the workers also seriously disrupted operations by forcibly preventing loading and dispatch of finished goods. "Some important customers like the defence services, which almost entirely depends on the Shahgunj plant for its requirement of aircraft tyres were being affected." The corporate office and other divisions of the company, including depots and branch offices were, however, functioning normally, he said.
The decision will˙affect more than 2,500 employees of Dunlop owned by Manu Chhabria. Theemployees have not been paid wages for the last three months, he said. West Bengal labour minister Santi Ghatak was not available for comment.
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