B.N. SRIKRISHNA, J.:---These four Letters Patent Appeals challenge the judgment and order dated 24th December, 1999 delivered by the learned Single Judge (R.J. Kochar, J.) in Writ Petition No. 5536 of 1998 and Writ Petition No. 5550 of 1998. The issues of fact are common and the questions of law arise from the same judgment. It would, hence, be convenient to decide all the four Letters Patent Appeals by a common judgment.

2. The appellant in Letters Patent Appeal No. 118 of 2000 and Letters Patent Appeal No. 119 of 2000 is a Public Limited Company which manufactures three wheelers and two wheelers (hereinafter referred to as “the company”). The respondents in the aforesaid Letters Patent Appeals and the appellants in Letters Patent Appeal No. 19 of 2000 and Letters Patent Appeal No. 20 of 2000 are about 703 temporary workmen employed in the company (hereinafter referred to as “the workmen”). The 2nd respondent in Letters Patent Appeal No. 19 of 2000 and Letters Patent Appeal No. 20 of 2000 and the 3rd respondent in Letters Patent Appeal No. 118 of 2000 is the Industrial Court, Pune, constituted under the Maharashtra Recognition of Trade Unions and Prevention of Unfair Labour