Morarjee Textiles Limited announced that majority of operations at the Nagpur plant came to halt as some Contract workers' work stoppage from last few days. Subsequently, the Permanent Technicians also joined the work stoppage. However, spinning and part of weaving continued to operate on a reduced working capacity.

The demand of Contract Workers' and Permanent Technicians is mainly Long term Wage Settlement agreement which is pending since last 3 years should be concluded soon. At present, the management is in continuous dialogue with Contractor, Workers and Permanent Technicians and also initiated legal action against the workers who are on strike. The Management is taking all steps to ensure normal functioning of the plant to the maximum extent possible and also bring back workers who are on strike.

With these steps, the company resumed the working of operations at 30% Capacity and Spinning which will move towards full capacity. The company is hopeful to conclude the wage agreement soon and workers will return to work in next couple of days.