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By Newzfirst Correspondent 8/31/11 Email Print MANESAR - In a sudden move, the management of the biggest car company in India, Maruti Suzuki India Limited has forced a lock-out at the Manesar, Gurgaon plant since the morning of 29 August. It has terminated 11 workers and suspended 10 more on charges of indiscipline and participating in a “go-slow action”. Speaking to newzfirst, Satyam Verma, convener of Citizens Front in Support of the Maruti Suzuki Workers’ Struggle, termed all charges as baseless and said, “The company has also imposed a dictatorial and utterly illegal ‘good conduct bond’ on the workers and has decreed that any worker who will not sign the bond will be considered ‘on strike’ and will not be allowed to enter the plant.” The management had started preparing for this lockout since the evening of Sunday and a large police force was deployed at its behest at the plant. “The company has already appointed a number of ‘bouncers’ as security guards and several musclemen from nearby villages have also been hired to intimidate and threaten the workers. However, the workers are united and determined to fight this attack. Not a single worker has signed the bond. Along with the 1100 regular worker, around 2000 contract and apprentice workers have also joined the struggle, although the management tried to separate them by announcing leave for contract and apprentice workers till September 1.” he explained Deploring the stance and double standard of Haryana Govt. he said, “It is brazenly siding with the MSIL and leaving no stone unturned in crushing the workers’ struggle. The BS Hudda led Congress govt. had promptly declared the 13 day (4-17 June) strike illegal and its labor minister kept on trying to end the strike in favor of the company by threatening and misleading the workers.” Ever since the end of the strike in June, the management has been trying to dismiss and threaten or demoralize the workers by various means. Since July, some contract and apprentice workers are being thrown out almost every day. Even without counting the action on 29 August, 84 workers have been dismissed or suspended since July. In July, after the management sponsored elections of the Gurgaon plant based pro-management union, which was boycotted by Manesar workers, the management terminated some leading members of the Maruti Suzuki Employees Union which is still continuing, says Satyam. Earlier during the previous crisis, Chief Minister Hudda had promised the workers leaders that there will be no difficulty in getting the union registered. However, just a day before 15 August, the govt. dismissed their application for registration. In fact, on other hand, during the June strike, Hudda had promised Shinzo Nakanishi that his government will not allow the formation of a second union. At least 2 million workers work in hundreds of units situated in the vast industrial belt in and around Gurgaon. There are around one million workers who work in the units of automobile industry alone. These workers who produce auto parts for companies from all over the world in modern factories have to work in very bad conditions. More than 90 percent of these are contract workers who work for 10-12 hours for 4000-5000 per month. “The workload and speed is extremely high and they have to face verbal abuse and even beatings by the supervisors and security guards. Most of the factories do not have unions and where the workers have managed to form a union, they have to face constant harassment. The established big unions do nothing except paying lip service to the issues and in many cases have ditched the workers in favor of the management. In this scenario, the issue of the right to form a union is a common and universal issue in the Gurgaon industrial belt.” said Satyam explaining the bad working conditions of the industrial belt. 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