TAMIL NADU-Textile Bonus Issue

Textile Bonus Issue Behind Facade of Legalism Brindavan C Moses ALL trade unions representing textile workers in Tamil Nadu and Pondieherry have given a Joint call for an indefinite strike in all the 200 odd mills from November 11 to press their demand for payment of bonus as in the previous three years. The decision for direct action by the textile workers numbering about 1.50 lakh in these two states came on October 18 as a sequel to the failure of two rounds of bipartite' talks between the managements and the eight trade unions comprising the HMS, AIADMK, INTUC, CITU, AITUC, DMK, DTLU and the TNTUC.