The strike by workers which lasted for four day at the Nokia India's plant near Chennai has ended on Friday night. The plant started working normally as the employees turned up for work at the facility in Sriperumbudur outside the southern Indian city.

The strike began on Tuesday over an issue over transfer of an employee. The plant employs about 8,000 people and handsets produced are exported to about 60 countries.

The Nokia India Employees Progressive Union (NIEPU) issued a statement and said that the workers went back to work on Saturday morning and the management has assured of taking back the suspended workers.

The union is linked to the Labour Progressive Front which is a unit of DMK.

The management and the NIEPU resolved the issue in the Joint Labour Commissioner's office on Friday. The company has agreed to revoke the suspension order of 23 workers while the decision on the remaining 40 suspended workers will be taken on January 29.

The company issued a statement which said, "The issue has been resolved through mutual dialogue and to the satisfaction of all parties involved. However, the suspension pending inquiry notice to some employees who are reported to have committed acts of serious misconduct still remains and will be concluded through disciplinary proceedings."

The company has around 3,700 permanent workers, around 2,000 trainees and 1,000 contract workers. And about 70% of the workers are females.

The company said it has asked other Nokia factories in the region to help during the situation and thus the sales are not likely to get affected because of the strike.

Nokia is one of the biggest MNC in the country and its plant has the capacity to produce more than 500,000 mobile phones a day which makes the plant with the highest productivity among all Nokia plants across the world.