Over the last two years, potests had become a routine phenomenonat Pricol, the Coimbatore-based auto components manufacturer. Eversince a section of the employees who came under the All IndiaCentral Council of Trade Unions (AICCTU)-Tamil Nadu questioned thewage agreement (in 2007) that was in force, the relationship betweenthe union and the management had turned frosty. But still, few wouldhave predicted what happened on September 21 this year. A section ofdisgruntled workers employed at the company's Kuniamuthur unit, whowere dismissed earlier in the day on account of "misdemeanor , wentto Pricol's main factory at Perianaickenpalayam with iron weldingrods and brutally assaulted …
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