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Expect Workers’ Wage Settlement In Coming Weeks, Says Tata Motors

The company and workers’ unions have been in talks for several months now.



Employees work on a Jaguar XJ automobile in the body shop on the production line at Tata Motors Ltd.’s Jaguar assembly plant (Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg)
Employees work on a Jaguar XJ automobile in the body shop on the production line at Tata Motors Ltd.’s Jaguar assembly plant (Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg)

Tata Motors Ltd. expects to resolve with its workers the issue of compensation related to long-term settlement in the coming weeks. The company and workers' unions have been in talks for several months now.

Earlier this week, union members at the Pune plant had met Tata Group Chairman Emeritus Ratan Tata who had visited the plant with the new Chairman of the Group N Chandrasekaran. It is understood that the two leaders of the Tata Group assured the workers that the matter would be resolved soon.

"Tata Motors has always encouraged a cordial and mutually trusted partnership with its workers individually as well as with the representatives of the trade unions," a company spokesperson said in an emailed statement.

Last November, during the peak of fight between Tata Sons and its ousted Chairman Cyrus Mistry, two unions of the company representing around 16,000 employees had written to the management expressing their support to Ratan Tata.

At that time, Tata Motors Employees Union, Pune had alleged that "the once cordial relations between Tata Motors Pune plant management and the employees have taken a downward turn since the last 14 months over various negotiable issues".