In all these 90 Writ Petitions, heard the arguments of Mr. S.Sanjay Mohan, learned counsel appearing for M/s. Ramasubramaniam and Associates and Mr. D.Hariparanthaman, learned counsel appearing for the second respondents and Mr.K.Srinivasan appearing for the third respondent and have perused the records.

2. In all these 90 Writ Petitions, the short question that arises for consideration is whether the prayer of the writ petitioner/Management seeking for a restraint order against the Labour Court from proceeding with industrial disputes raised by the respective second respondents under Section 2-A (2) of the Industrial Disputes Act 1947 (for short I.D.Act) can be granted by this Court?

3. Since the issue raised in all these Writ Petitions are common, the petitioner is hereinafter referred to as the Management and the second respondents are collectively referred to as the Workmen and the third respondent as the contractor.

4. The workmen were employed by the management and they were members of "TAFE Employees Union", which is a registered Trade Union. These workmen were working under various capacities and they were claiming that they had put in six years of service. The