Eicher Goodearth Ltd. vs Presiding Officer, Labour Court And ... on 26 November, 1998
14. Following was held by the Hon'ble High Court of
Rajasthan in M/s. Eicher Goodearth Ltd. Vs. The Presiding
Officer, Labour Court & Another 1999 LLR 156:
"9. The question, therefore, which falls for consideration in
the case at hand is not merely of a worker against whom
misconduct has been alleged on account of his own lapse but
the misconduct alleged to have been proved is whether he
acted as a kingpin in order to enforce a strike by exerting his
will on others who were not willing to participate. It is no
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doubt true that the right to go on strike of a workman has been
treated as an acknowledged method of demonstrating his
protest but the fact remains that the element of willingness on
the part of other workers to join the strike is predominant and
one workman cannot be said to be having a superior right of
pressurising and forcing other workmen to abstain from work
as it is an individual right of each and every workman to
decide for himself whether he wishes to join the strike or not. It
is quite obvious that it is in this context that the Constitution
Bench of the Supreme Court considered over the matter and
distinguished the cases of those workmen who were described
as 'dumb riven cattle' from those who were the kingpin of the
strike.