1. The petitioner is a company engaged in the manufacture of shoes, meant for export. There were as many as 482 workers engaged in the company and due to certain constraints, the said company suspended its operation from 12.11.2004 and thereafter, it was suspended its operation with effect from 12.11.2004. The Floram Shoes Employees Union, which is a recognized one, took up the matter before the Joint Commissioner of Labour, Chennai. During the pendency of the same, bilateral talks were held with the said Union representing all 482 workmen. In the meanwhile, two other unions, namely, Leather & Leather Goods Democratic Labour Union (affiliated to AICCTU) and Desiya Podu Thozhilalar Sangam (affiliated to INTUC) raised a dispute under Section 2K of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (hereinafter, referred to the Act) before the Joint Commissioner of Labour on the issue of closure. In the meantime, a settlement between the petitioner Management and the Floram Shoes Employees Union was entered on 2.3.2005 under Section 18(1) of the Act, in and by which, as many as 472 workers who were the members of the said Union got the benefit and out of them, about 164 workmen were reengaged o