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The petitioner, a registered trade union has filed this writ petition seeking a change in the code of discipline (COD for short) for conducting a referendum among the employees of the second respondent for the purpose of giving recognition to trade unions. According to the petitioner, the management has at present recognized only two unions.

2. Adv.Saji Varghese who appears for the second respondent submits that, the COD can be changed only if there is a consensus among all the employees of the second respondent. The second respondent has no objection to such a change being effected in the event of there being a consensus. It is the third respondent who has to convene a meeting of all the trade unions for the purpose of ascertaining whether there is a consensus among the unions. The second respondent has also stated as follows in the statement filed in this case:-