Industrial Dispute – Minority Union Not Bound By Settlement Between Majority Union & Employer
Case: Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. v. The President, Oil Field Employees Association And Ors.
Corum: Justices L. Nageswara Rao and Aniruddha Bose
Case No.: Civil Appeal No. 1033 of 2022
Court Observation: “In the instant case we do not find the settlement of 19th September, 2016 to be one which would be binding on the minority Union. That was a settlement essentially between the contractors and workmen engaged by the former. The appellants were only consenting parties to the settlement”
“It is further unquestionable that a minority union of workers may raise an industrial dispute even if another union which consists of the majority of them enters into a settlement with the employer”
“…we would not like to interfere with the relief directed to be given by the High Court. The scope of jurisdiction of the Industrial Court is wide and in appropriate cases it has the jurisdiction even to make a contract. In our opinion, the directives issued by the Tribunal, as modified by the High Court are reasonable and cannot be termed as perverse.”
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