Siri Jagan, J.

This writ appeal is filed challenging the judgment of the learned Single Judge in O.P.No. 13451/1996 wherein the learned Single Judge upheld Exts. P3 and P5 orders of the original and appellate authorities under the Kerala Headload Workers Act, whereby the rights of respondents 6 and 7 Unions to claim "attimari work" in the Kollam District Depot of the Kerala State Civil Supplies Corporation was upheld. The appellants are the petitioners who are some of the regular workers of the Corporation as also office bearers of the Union of the regular workers. The brief facts necessary for the disposal of the writ appeal are as follows.

2. The Kerala State Civil Supplies Corporation (for short "the Corporation) constructed a new godown in its Kollam District Depot at contonment area, wherein there were already one Maveli store, four tanks for palmoline collection and one godown, which started functioning on 20-4-1996. Before the construction of the new godown, the depot was functioning as a receiving center for food articles for sale during festival seasons like Onam etc. When the new godown was constructed, the provision articles stocked at the Kikikolloor godown an