About 900 employees would lose their jobs following the suspension of operations at the plant.
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Employees at Nokia's Chennai plant are not so keen to shift their base.
The Nokia India Employees Progressive Union held discussions with the management on Monday. "The wage settlement offered by company is quite low. We are not happy with that," said Union sources.
Union sources claimed production at the Chennai plant, considered one of the biggest for Nokia, had declined from 13 million handsets per month to four million per month.
This is the third meeting between the two parties, including one in which the Company Law Board had taken part.
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Besides staging a hunger strike on March 31 in Chennai, the Nokia India Employees Union have decided to further step up their protest post the Lok Sabha elections.
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On March 14, the Supreme Court had ordered Nokia India to give Rs 3,500 crore (Rs 35 billion) as guarantee before it transfers the plant to Microsoft.
In the factory, workers said Friday was the last day as far as production was concerned.
Last week, Nokia offered financial help to employees who wished to explore opportunities elsewhere
Union Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said she will pursue the matter with the finance ministry
Nokia-Microsoft transfer deal transaction is now subject only to certain customary closing conditions.
Trouble began at the manufacturing facilities of Foxconn situated at Sriperumbudur near Chennai after it decided to suspend production from December 22, 2014. Fearing job losses the employees have been resorting to agitations since then.
The workers who were hired straight out of school as unskilled labourers are now struggling to find alternative employment because they lack skills.
The Nokia India facility in Chennai, one of the largest manufacturing facilities of the company globally employs 8,000 people, of that 50 per cent are women.
Nokia is keen to shift its Chennai plant to Vietnam.
Unions will 'fight to death' if company 'decides' to shut Chennai factory.
The Department refused to allow transfer of the plant till the dues claimed by the department are not remitted by the company.
'Samsung declared they would not allow the presence of any trade union.' 'This is unacceptable as the rule of law in India permits employees to have a trade union.' 'So, the crux of the strike is this.'
Fate of factory, 8,000 workers remains uncertain.
The employees had been trying to gain entry in protest at the lack of any formal notice of closure
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Just to promote govt's policy of Make in India, BSNL said, it cannot afford to procure sub-standard equipment from inexperienced companies, not having proven technology. BSNL complained that when competitors were procuring world-class 4G equipment from experienced vendors, why should BSNL be compelled to procure locally.
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