Maruti Suzuki of India (MSI), the Congress Party-led Haryana state government, and its police are mounting a vendetta against the 3,000 workers at the company’s Mansear car assembly plant for daring to challenge a brutal work regimen.
Since July 21, India’s largest auto maker has locked out the entire workforce at its Manesar plant and MSI Chairman R.C. Bharagava has threatened to shut the facility, which is located about 40 kilometers from New Delhi, permanently. At MSI’s behest, police have arrested more than a hundred workers including all the leaders of an independent union the workers established last year in opposition to a company stooge union.
As the pretext for these latest attacks, the company and government are citing a violent altercation that erupted between workers and management on July 18 and ended in the death of a senior manager.
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In fact, as the World Socialist Web Site has previously reported, the July 18 altercation was a deliberate management provocation. Company officials suspended a worker after he protested against the abusive casteist remarks of a supervisor. Workers angered by the suspension began to protest, demanding that the supervisor be disciplined instead. While leaders of the Maruti Suzuki Workers Union (MSWU)—the independent union the company has resisted recognizing—were discussing the dispute with management representatives, hundreds of armed company-organized goons brutally attacked the workers, provoking a major conflict. Full story...
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Since July 21, India’s largest auto maker has locked out the entire workforce at its Manesar plant and MSI Chairman R.C. Bharagava has threatened to shut the facility, which is located about 40 kilometers from New Delhi, permanently. At MSI’s behest, police have arrested more than a hundred workers including all the leaders of an independent union the workers established last year in opposition to a company stooge union.
As the pretext for these latest attacks, the company and government are citing a violent altercation that erupted between workers and management on July 18 and ended in the death of a senior manager.
(...)
In fact, as the World Socialist Web Site has previously reported, the July 18 altercation was a deliberate management provocation. Company officials suspended a worker after he protested against the abusive casteist remarks of a supervisor. Workers angered by the suspension began to protest, demanding that the supervisor be disciplined instead. While leaders of the Maruti Suzuki Workers Union (MSWU)—the independent union the company has resisted recognizing—were discussing the dispute with management representatives, hundreds of armed company-organized goons brutally attacked the workers, provoking a major conflict. Full story...
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