Workers at Ford India Pvt. Ltd. plant at Maraimalai Nagar, near Chennai, continued with their strike for the third consecutive day on Wednesday as the management and the union were not able to arrive at a decision on the severance package. Union leaders told The Hindu that they would continue their strike on Thursday.
“We did have a few rounds of talks on Wednesday. But we couldn’t arrive at any decision. The severance package that they are offering is very less,” said P. Senthil Kumar, general secretary of the Chennai Ford Employees’ Union. Asked what compensation the employees were asking and what was the company’s offer, he did not want to divulge any details. But a few workers said they had asked for more than 300 days of wages for every year of service completed while the company had offered 80 days of wages for every year of service completed.
To an email, Ford’s spokesperson said: “Given the ongoing nature of the discussions with the union, we may not be able to share details at this point and will have more to share later.”
