V.V.S. RAO, J.

These writ appeals by the Arrack Bottling Unit (hereafter called, ABU), IML Depot, are against the common judgment of the learned single Judge dated 02.12.2010 in W.P.No.24606 of 2000 and fourteen other writ petitions. W.A.No.638 of 2011, however, is filed against the order of the Hon’ble Chief Justice disposing of petitioners’ writ petition following the decision in W.P.No.24606 of 2000. As the issue is common in all the matters and they arise out of a common order passed by the Labour Court-cum-Industrial Tribunal, Warangal, it is necessary to dispose of the matters by a common order.

2. The second respondent herein, who is a workman, and twenty other workmen raised industrial dispute under Section 2-A(2) of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947. They prayed for a declaration that the action of the respondents therein in terminating their services is null and void and for a direction to reinstate the workmen on daily wages with continuance of service, but without backwages. The Tribunal declared that the termination of workmen on 29.11.1989 amounting to retrenchment is illegal, null and void. Aggrieved by those awards where reinstatement was ordered, the resp