ORDNANCE FACTORIES EMPLOYEES' ASSOCIATION vs JUDGMENT Reported As — 1970 PLC 676

Citation: 1970 PLC 676

Court: Calcutta High Court

Year: 1969

Decision Date: 1969-12-31

Parties: DIRECTOR-GENERAL, ORDNANCE FACTORIES EMPLOYEES' ASSOCIATION vs JUDGMENT

Headnotes

Result: rule is accordingly Judgment JUDGMENT This rule involves a dispute between two sections of the subordinate employees in the office of the Director-General of Ordnance Factories, re presented by two Unions. The petitioner is the Employees' Association, which represents employees other than Stenographers.

Judgment Text

Court Name: Calcutta High Court Judge(s): D. Basu Title:DIRECTOR-GENERAL, ORDNANCE FACTORIES EMPLOYEES' ASSOCIATION vs JUDGMENT Reported As: 1970 PLC 676 Result: rule is accordingly Judgment JUDGMENT This rule involves a dispute between two sections of the subordinate employees in the office of the Director-General of Ordnance Factories, re presented by two Unions. The petitioner is the Employees' Association, which represents employees other than Stenographers. The "Stenogra--phers'Association" has been added as respondent No. 3 at their intervention Respondent No. 1 is the Union of India and respondent No. 2 is the Director-General of Ordnance Factories. According to the petitioner-Association, the stenographers are outside the clerical cadre; that there is no rule authorising the promotion of stenographers to the grade of assistants and that the stenographers had no higher prospects in their career. Administratively, however, respondents reserved a post of assistant-in-charge to be filled up from the cadre of stenographers of Grade II and on the protest of the petitioner, respondent No. 2 stated that it was only a "non-recurring measure" (Annexure A) which had been adopted "to remove from the minds of the stenographers the sense of frustration which they were suffering from for not having any scope of advancement". Since 1962, the respondents have been proposing to combine the two services by making a combined seniority lists of Clerks and Stenographers and petitioner…

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