Workers’ pay: Toyota India output halves amid dispute
Japan’s Toyota says production at 2 Indian plants has fallen by half as many of its unionised workers remain off job.
BANGALORE:
Japan’s Toyota said production at its two Indian plants has fallen by half as many of its unionised workers remain off the job over a pay dispute. Toyota workers and the company’s management at two plants near the southern high-tech city of Bangalore have been negotiating the pay issues for 10 months. “Production has declined 50 percent to 350 cars from 700 cars a day,” senior Toyota Kirloskar Motors executive Shekar Viswanathan told a news conference in Bangalore late Friday. Toyota Kirloskar Motor Private Ltd is the Indian unit of the world’s biggest carmaker. Its Bangalore complex produces some 310,000 autos annually, including Toyota’s flagship Camry sedan, the Corolla, and the Prius hybrid, mostly for the Indian market. Just 300 of the 4,200 unionised employees have resumed work.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 6th, 2014.
Japan’s Toyota said production at its two Indian plants has fallen by half as many of its unionised workers remain off the job over a pay dispute. Toyota workers and the company’s management at two plants near the southern high-tech city of Bangalore have been negotiating the pay issues for 10 months. “Production has declined 50 percent to 350 cars from 700 cars a day,” senior Toyota Kirloskar Motors executive Shekar Viswanathan told a news conference in Bangalore late Friday. Toyota Kirloskar Motor Private Ltd is the Indian unit of the world’s biggest carmaker. Its Bangalore complex produces some 310,000 autos annually, including Toyota’s flagship Camry sedan, the Corolla, and the Prius hybrid, mostly for the Indian market. Just 300 of the 4,200 unionised employees have resumed work.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 6th, 2014.