Workers at VIVO factory turned violent on Tuesday evening when the company's management sacked over 60 people workers without any prior notice in Ecotech-I in Greater Noida on Tuesday. Sources say that, over the last couple of months, the company has handed pink slips to an estimated 700 workers without prior notice. A clash between security guards and workers continued outside the company gates for about half an hour, before police took the situation in hand. We had asked the workers not to indulge in any kind of violence and had also asked company officials to mend their policies in terms of recruitment of workers and sacking them." They attacked our security guards and ransacked the factory.

Source: dna July 26, 2017 02:26 UTC