Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.

Mahindra & Mahindra’s employee’s indefinite hunger strike at Nashik production facility entered the sixth day without any impact on production. The employees informed management that the fast will continue till the management signs the long pending wage agreement with them. Union Vice-President is sitting on a hunger strike in front of the Deputy Labor Commissioner’s office since May 1, demanding from the Mahindra management to renew the wage accord, which expired in February.

The union is asking for inflation-linked wage revision, besides restricting the wage agreement period to three years against three-and-a-half years now. The Nashik plant employs around 4,000 workers and manufactures Xylo, Bolero, Quanto and Scorpio models of SUVs besides the mid-size sedan Verito. It rolls out 550 vehicles per day in three shifts.