INDUSTRIAL LICENSING- Still Tied in Knots

is about 1.6 lakh bales. Last year, a Labour Court decision did away with weekly holidays and sanctioned the management's scheme for 355 working days. On March 3, rallying behind the call of the Action Committee led by A D Bhosle, the workers took the day off ay it was Mahashivratri, The 'recognised' INTUC union did not support the action; the management rushed to the court which ruled that the absence of the workers on that day be treated as a strike. The management went a step further to declare a seven-day week