R. K. ABICHANDANI, D. H. WAGHELA, J.

( 1 ) THE petitioner challenges the award made by the Industrial Tribunal in Reference (IT) No. 258 of 1979 on 9. 9. 1983, accepting certain demands of the respondent Union for revision of wages.

( 2 ) THE industrial dispute between the workmen employed by the petitioner and the petitioner company was referred for adjudication to the Tribunal on 30. 6. 1979 in respect of the charter of demands at Annexures "a", "b" and "c" appended to the reference. The petitioner Messrs Alembic Glass Industries Ltd. was a Public Limited Company and was manufacturing and selling pressed and hollow glass containers, phials, bottles etc. having two factories at Baroda and one at Bangalore. It employed about 2398 workmen, out of whom 2190 were operatives and about 208 were members of staff. Originally, the petitioner was a part of Alembic Chemicals Works Company Limited (hereinafter referred to as Alembic Chemicals ). The previous award in respect of demands of the petitioner workmen was made by the Industrial Tribunal (Mr. Justice M. U. Shah), as published in the gazette on 15. 4. 1976. The present joint reference was made by an agreement between the parties, provi

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