STATISTICS ON INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES, CLOSURES, RETRENCHMENTS

AND LAY-OFFS IN INDIA DURING THE YEAR, 2007

CHAPTER-2

TABLE 2(VII) (e)  

Strikes Classified by Causes in the State Sphere during the Year 2007

Sr. No.

Cause Group Name

Number of Strikes

Number of Workers involved

Number of Mandays Lost

Number

Percentage to Total

Number 

Percentage to Total

Number 

Percentage to Total

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

1

Wages and Allowances

45

31.5

25,885

7.3

408,202

2.8

2

Personnel

43

30.1

12,554

3.5

339,402

2.3

3

Retrenchment

1

0.7

32

0.0

1,056

0.0

4

Lay-off

1

0.7

57

0.0

1,026

0.0

5

Indiscipline

8

5.6

1,035

0.3

11,896

0.1

6

Violence

2

1.4

252,627

71.0

13,199,652

89.6

7

Bonus

7

4.9

1,312

0.4

79,841

0.5

8

Labour Enactments/ Agreements

4

2.8

2,170

0.6

243,492

1.7

9

Charter of Demands

12

8.4

5,131

1.4

180,539

1.2

10

Work norms/Loads

1

0.7

480

0.1

25,910

0.2

11

Demand for Amenities

1

0.7

159

0.0

795

0.0

12

Government Economic Policy

1

0.7

44,763

12.6

44,763

0.3

13

Other reasons

14

9.8

7,506

2.1

104,325

0.7

14

Not Known

3

2.1

2,017

0.6

86,591

0.6

 

Total

143

100.0

355,728

100.0

14,727,490

100.0

 -   = Nil

0.0 = Less than 0.05 percentage

Note:  Figures in brackets indicate the percentages to total