JUDGMENT - Smt. NISHITA MHATRE, J.:---Mr. R.G. Ketkar appears for the petitioners in

all the four writ petitions, while Mr. K.S. Bapat appears for the respondent in Writ Petition No. 3429 of 1995. None appears for the respondents in other three writ petitions, namely, Writ Petition No. 2247 of 1995, Writ Petition No. 3430 of 1995 and Writ Petition No. 3431 of 1995 though duly served. Since the question involved in these writ petitions is identical, these writ petitions can be disposed of by common judgment.

2. These four petitions impugn the common order passed by the Industrial Court in complaints filed by the employees of the petitioner corporation under Items 5, 6, 9 and 10 of the Maharashtra Recognition of Trade Union and Prevention of Unfair Labour Practices Act, 1971 (hereinafter referred to as the "MRTU PULP Act").

3. The respondent workmen in all the four petitions were employed in the Printing Press run by petitioner No. 1 Pune-Municipal Corporation, in various posts like Junior Binder, Baller, Pressman, Mono-caster Attendant, etc. They were employed on a temporary basis. It is the case of the respondent workmen that they have been continued as the temporary workmen for ye

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