 Hatsen Agro Products is the largest private dairy products company in India. The company is based in Tamil Nadu where they have many milk processing plants across several districts and even some outside the state. Hatsen's products like Arun Ice Cream, Arokia Milk, Hatsen Curd and Ibacko Ice Cream are household names in the southern states and in Maharashtra. Making its founder Mr. Ajitendra Mohan, one of the five richest men in Tamil Nadu. The company had a turnover of Rs. 5,500 crores at the end of the 2021 fiscal year and reported a massive 25% increase in net profit for the second quarter as against the same period in the previous year. Around this time the company planned an additional Rs. 450 crore investment to expand its manufacture and distribution. A business biography titled Broke to Breakthrough was published in September this year documenting Chandramohan's success story. He started off as a small-time ice cream seller and went on to build a business empire spanning five decades. Did the company achieve such heights by exploiting its workers? The protests and struggles by the company's employees, particularly from Dharmapuri, makes us think so. We saw that at Hatsen Arokia Milk Company, around 300 employees were working here. The lockdown period started at the time of the pandemic. If you look at the company, there is a small problem. They won't investigate anything immediately. They would lock the door and come in. They wouldn't answer any questions. They wouldn't wait for two or three days to see if they would call the gate again. They wouldn't call. Then they wouldn't have any other choice. Why are they doing this? They couldn't answer any questions. That's how I got married. They sent me when I was five months old. They sent many people like me. Hatsen procures milk from 45 lakh farmers in 500 filling centres in the state. The company has 10,000 permanent and 22,000 contractual employees in Tamil Nadu alone. The workers of the company say that it procures milk from farmers for Rs 23 per litre but sells it at Rs 63. They keep it for 35 years. They keep it for our needs. If they talk to the company, they dismiss it. If they dismiss it, they don't give any order. They keep it for free. Hatsen workers complain that they get only half an hour to have lunch and the canteen is 300 metres away from their workplace. They are often asked to report on off days and treated like school children by the supervisors. The employees working in the factory don't even pay the minimum wages amount. The minimum wages amount is Rs 21,000 for the central government in 2019. But the amount before this is Rs 18,000. The salary of a person who works for 10 years is Rs 13,200. If they ask why, they immediately lock the punch and say, don't come here from tomorrow. This company has been working for 50 years. In the past 50 years, no one has taken any retirement or retirement settlement in a business category. If you look at our Golasanalli plant, it has been working for 12 years. This company has been working for 12 years. In the past 12 years, no one has worked for 12 years. There is a reason and a problem. When the corona lockdown happened, I was locked up in a punch. To meet my manager, I went to his house. He locked the punch and didn't let me in. So, I met him in person. I was married for 5 months. My family was in trouble. I didn't know what to do and he asked me what to do. He asked me what to do. He immediately arrested me and took me there. I tried to kill the manager. I filed a case. In the area we are in, there is a rural, in Palakode, in Golasanalli, there is no industrial area. In this area, there is no knowledge about the industrial area. Whether we work or not, we will have a monthly salary. They will be there. The basic salary and the minimum wages are maintained by our company. We don't have any relation and they send us to work. So, we need an employee union. Not only for employees, but for our employees, we also need to see what happens to the CL. We need to save them and we need to save ourselves. We started a union. We registered in the government. The reason for this is that we need a employer. We registered in the union. August 22nd, 2021, August 22nd, 2021, we have a lot of problems in this company. We don't have any relation, we don't give any salary, we don't say anything. So, if we talk and settle this, our union will be a letter from Dharmapuri. On September 1st, within a week of the formation of their union, we will give away plans, such as the state of Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra. After that, we told about the company's information. We also sent a letter to 2K petition on the Labour office. We called on 22nd September, On the night of the 21st, they came to the shift and asked us to give you a transfer based on their direct appointment. That day, five of them were sent to the office. All of them got scared immediately. They started the union and called for a speech. Immediately, all of them stood outside the strike. When the spot and strike started, a hundred people came out. All of them were 96 employees, 48 CL and 144 people came out. They called for a complaint in the labour office and immediately called for a speech. On September 1, when the company called for a standing order, you should have given them a transfer. But you shouldn't have done that. You should have said that you would have given a transfer in an appointment order. It is wrong to give an order immediately. You should have given an advice copy and said that you shouldn't strike. You should have said that you should work immediately. We were going to work on the 2nd of October and we were going to work on the 2nd of October. You should have been in quarantine for 5 days and checked the RTPCR. Immediately, the 8th of October will join the work. They said that they would work on the 2nd of October. Okay, we were in quarantine till the 5th of October. We were in quarantine till the 6th of October. We were taking the corona test and checked the RTPCR. We were going to work on the 8th of October. What did they do on the 8th? They were balancing the strike. They gave the DSP Dhinakaran in front of the sir. They handed it over to him. You all transferred it. This is the company's name. You should have accepted the transfer for the company's growth. They called 45 police and handed it over to me. If you didn't get it, they would have taken you to the police van. They would have arrested everyone and sent you in. They said that. After that, our leader is CITU. He is the leader of our party. He told the police that he will talk to the police. He said that he will send you to the police van. This is wrong. We have raised this in the lab office. We haven't started the conversation yet. This is wrong. They gave us advice copy. They asked us why we didn't accept the transfer. They asked us why we didn't accept the transfer. If we study the company's names, we will transfer the transfer to the employee's appointment order. We have mentioned that. We will follow that only. We don't need to follow the modeler's standing order. In October 2018, we had a meeting with the CITU and our employees. We had a meeting with the employees' families. When the meeting was done, they had a peace committee in Dasildar office. When Dasildar was in the office, they also said that they had filed a 2K petition. When the company was in the office, they said that they shouldn't take the petition. They said that they should follow that. Our company came there. We didn't have anything to do with the petition. We had given the appointment order. They said that. In October 26, we had a meeting with the CITU and our employees. We had a big meeting with the CITU and our families. When the meeting was done, they called the sub-collector. They also said the same thing to the sub-collector. We didn't do it because of the petition. We had the appointment order of the employees. They signed the agreement. They said the same thing to the sub-collector. They said that they should talk to the sub-collector. They said that they should return the petition. They didn't return the petition. Workers are worried that apart from people from left parties and CITU, nobody is helping them. They say that mainstream media is also not taking up their issue since it will affect their revenue brought through advertisements from Hudson. Until now, we have been waiting for 50 days, without seeing rain and rain. Until now, nobody has given us any government authority. When we sing, every channel star takes a video. They take a petition. They say that they will put it on the channel today or tomorrow. Until now, nobody has put it on any channel. Only Manila Thalviarapattam has put it on two newspapers. Small one is called Taniyar Paaliniravanan. Small one is called Taniyar Paaliniravanan. Only two paragraphs have been put on it. Until now, nobody is taking up their issue. We are still waiting for it. What do the news channels say? They are giving the ad bill to our company. They say that they cannot put it on a news channel. Until now, the news channels are all printed in two K-petitions. They say that they will not put it on the channel. They say that they will not give the ad. They say that they will not give the sub-collector. We are also not giving the ad. We are also not giving the sub-collector. We are asking for your feedback. We are asking you to talk to the company and make things right. Till now, nobody is talking to us. There is no DMK, no ADMK, no other sub-collector.