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Ford India’s Chennai Workers Unhappy Over Performance Incentive Cut
Even as the workers at Toyota Kirloskar are refusing to come back to work over salary issues, another employer-employee issue has cropped up at another automobile manufacturing facility.
This time it is at the Ford India production facility in Maraimalai Nagar, outside Chennai. However, workers at this plant are protesting without disrupting production. Instead, they have resorted to more peaceful ways of protesting, by refusing to eat the food provided at the cafeteria and by not taking company provided transportation.
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Around 1,800 workers are said to be unhappy with the management due to reduced performance incentive, over previous year, by about 10 percent.
According to an ET report, production at Ford's Chennai facility went up from 1.03 lakh units in 2012 to 1.22 lakh units in 2013, which has mainly to do with the launch of the EcoSport. Despite this performance incentive is said have dropped from 26 percent to 15.8 percent during the same period.
The workers are at least looking to have the incentive raised back to the same level as what was previously being offered.
Interestingly, there does not exist a Workers' Trade Union body that's officially recognized by Ford India. Instead, grievances are resolved through a Workers' Committee.
Ford India's Maraimalai Nagar manufacturing facility was set up in 1995. The facility, which currently employees about 6,000 workers, manufactures models such as the Figo, Fiesta and EcoSport. The compact SUV built in India is also exported to 40 countries.
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