Supreme Court of India

Herbertsons Limited v. Workmen of Herbertsons Limited and Ors

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Bench Y.V. Chandrachud, P. K. Goswami and S. Murtaza Fazal Ali JJ.
Decided 3 November 1976

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What the Court ordered

That being the position, we uphold the settlement as fair and just and order that the award of the Tribunal shall be substituted by the settlement dated October 18, 1973. The said settlement shall be the substituted award. The appeal is disposed of accordingly. There will be no order as to costs.

Judgment, Last paragraph, p. 24 (D)

From the headnote

Industrial Disputes Act, 1947-S. 18-Settlement under s. 18(1)-Scope of-Union arrived at settlement-Individual workers-If should know implications. In respect of certain demands of the workers of the appellant company an Industrial Tribunal made its award. When the Special Leave Petition of the appellant was pending before this Court the parties filed consent terms for staying the award. In the meantime the 3rd respondent, a Trade Union, wrote to the employer that all the workers who were members of the 2nd respondent, also a Trade Union, resigned from that union and joined the 3rd respondent.

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