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CITU continues strike against Muthoot Finance
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SME Times News Bureau | 18 Sep, 2019
The third round of conciliatory talks to end the over month-long strike
called by a small section of employees of Muthoot Finance, a leading
non-banking financial company, failed to break the deadlock on Wednesday
as the rival parties stood their ground.
The strike is supported by the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M)-backed Centre for Indian Trade Unions (CITU).
Wednesday's
talks, like on the past two occasions, were led by State Labour
Minister T.P. Ramakrishnan and Labour department officials with the CITU
leaders and the management of Muthoot Finance.
Later speaking to
the media, CITU state secretary A. Anandan said the management was
unwilling to compromise and hence they have no option but to go ahead
with the strike.
At the meeting, the trade union leaders wanted a
hike in the salary of employees, which was promptly shot down by the
management as the matter is before the court.
Muthoot Finance has
3,600 branches in the country, of which 600 branches are in Kerala. It
employs over 30,000 people across the country.
There have been no business transactions in Muthoot's 300 branches in Kerala since August 20 on account of the strike.
The
management by now has closed down around 50 branches after the protest
began and following the failed talks they are mulling closing down
another 40 branches.
The strike, however, has not affected the company's operations outside Kerala.
The
Muthoot management states that the unrest has been going on for the
past three years owing to which the company has lost 66 per cent of its
business in Kerala, that contributed 11 per cent of their all-India
business when the strikes began in 2016, which is now down to four per
cent.
However, Muthoot Finance as a company has grown by 50 per
cent during this period (between 2016 to 2019) from Rs 25,000 crore to
Rs 35,000 crore.
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