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Workers strike manesar plant (source:- NDTV)

The country's largest carmaker, Maruti Suzuki India (MSI), said on Saturday that work at its Manesar plant was affected this

afternoon when a section of workers went on a strike.

"A section of workers stopped work for a few hours on Saturday afternoon at Maruti Suzukis Manesar plant," the company

said in a statement, without specifying the reasons for the strike.

Management representatives were talking to the workers to understand the situation and find an appropriate solution, it

said.

MSI, which has a plant each at Manesar and Gurgaon, did not say how much production was affected as a result of the strike.

Further, it said its operations at its Gurgaon facilities were normal.

Sources among workers said the striking employees were demanding the recognition of a new union formed by those

working at the Manesar plant in Haryana.

"There is an old union under the Maruti Suzuki Kamgar Union, which is mainly dominated by those working at Maruti's

Gurgaon plant. We had formed a new body named Maruti Suzuki Employees Union, mainly by workers at the Manesar

plant, and have been asking for recognition from the management," said a source.

The management was not recognising the new body, the source claimed.

Besides, the workers were demanding that no action must be taken against the 11 office bearers of the new union. They were

also asking for retention of old contract workers for the upcoming two new units at the Manesar plant, the source said,

adding that there were around 2,000 employees at the Manesar plant.

MSI is setting up two new units with an annual installed capacity of 2.5 lakh units each inside its Manesar facility at a total

investment ofRs. 3,625 crore.

While the existing plant in Manesar can produce 3.5 lakh units annually, its three units in Gurgaon have a combined annual

capacity of 8.5 lakh units.

The last time the company witnessed a major strike was when workers stopped production for three months from November

2000-January 2001.

13-day strike at Maruti's Manesar plant ends(IBN LIVE)

New Delhi: The 13-day strike at the country's largest car maker Maruti Suzuki India's (MSI) Manesar plant in Gurgaon was called

off on Thursday night following a deal brokered by Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda between the workers and the

management.

As part of the deal, MSI will reinstate all the sacked 11 workers and take a lenient approach on enforcing no-work-no-pay rule of

eight day's salary cut for every single day of the strike.On the other hand, the worker's have conceded to the management's demand of not allowing the formation of a second union in the

company.


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"Agreement has been signed and workers have decided to call off the strike. They will resume work from Friday", Haryana Labour

Secretary Sarban Singh said.

He said the company has decided to reinstate all the 11 sacked employees and a disciplinary inquiry will be initiated against them.

Sources privy to the development said the formula was worked out after Hooda met MSI top executives, including Managing

Director and CEO Shinzo Nakanishi, last evening.

Company officials could not be reached for comments.

As the strike continued for the last 13 days, the company lost production of 12,600 units valued at about Rs 630 crore.

The shares of the company today fell 1.74 per cent at close at Rs 1,189.45 apiece on the Bombay Stock Exchange.

Under the deal to end the strike, the management agreed to reduce the no-work-no-pay rule of eight day's salary cut for every single

day of the strike to three days and it can be reduced further to just one day depending on the conduct and productivity of the

workers at the plant in the next few months, said sources close to the development.

The workers, on the other hand, agreed that they will not press for the management's recognition for a new union.

CPI and AITUC leader Gurudas Dasgupta, who had met Hooda several times in the past 10 days, said the agreement will have no

reference to the management's decision of not allowing trade union activities at the plant.

On June 4, the workers went on a strike demanding recognition of a new union, Maruti Suzuki Employees Union (MSEU), formed by

those working at the Manesar plant.

Currently, the company has one recognised union Maruti Udyog Kamgar Union which is dominated by workers at the Gurgaon

plant.

Retaining the contract labourers for the two upcoming new units inside the Manesar complex was another demand.

While a company spokesperson said only about 600 people were on strike, MSEU General Secretary Shiv Kumar claimed at least2,000 workers were on the sit-in stir at the plant.

Cracking the whip, the company had fired 11 workers last week for allegedly inciting others to go on strike.

The Manesar plant rolls out about 1,200 units every day in two shifts. The factory produces hatchbacks Swift and A-Star and sedans

DZiRE and SX4.

Dasgupta said so far there has been no incident of violence and the workers have been "united, responsible and patient, which is

remarkable".

"We also congratulate all trade unions of Gurgaon-Manesar area that rallied behind the agitating Maruti workers at the Manesar

plant," he added.


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GURGAON: Workers of Maruti Suzuki India's first plant at Manesartoday approached district authorities here seeking intervention to bring

an end to the impasse that has resulted in production being affected since August 29.

Around 1,500 workers also took out a protest rally near the mini secretariat here demanding that the company management should not force

them to sign a good conduct bond.

Representatives of the workers met Additional Deputy Commissioner V K Hooda and apprised him of the situation at the plant and submitted

their demands.

"We are willing to work but will not sign the good conduct bond," a worker representative said, adding the dismissed and suspended

colleagues must also be reinstated by the management.

The workers' demand for forming a new union,Maruti Suzuki Employees Union(MSEU) must also be allowed, he added.

On August 29, the company management prevented workers from entering factory premises at the Manesar plant unless they signed a good

conduct bond.

The bond required the workers to declare that they would "not resort to go slow, intermittent stoppage of work, stay- in-strike, work-to-rule,

sabotage or otherwise indulge in any activity, which would hamper the normal production in the factory".

During the first two days of the stand-off, MSI dismissed five permanent workers. In addition, it suspended 26 permanent workers and

discontinued the services of another 18 trainees on charges of sabotage and causing quality problems in cars.

As of Saturday last week, 81 workers have signed the bond but majority of them have refused to sign it. MSI has about 2,500 workers at the

first plant in Manesar and around 1,000 of them are permanent.

The management has been taking a tough stand against the workers and had refused to meet their demands. In fact, it is understood that

management has decided to recruit new workers from tomorrow onwards to replace the existing permanent workers unless they signed the

good conduct bond.

ET Now caught up withRC Bhargava , Chairman, Maruti Suzuki, for his views on the current issues

facing Maruti, including the Manesar plant strike. Excerpts:

Let me start with something which is of immense market curiosity. For the month of August dispatch numbers for Maruti

were rather poor because of the Manesar strike problem. Do you see them improving going forward?

Ans) Yes, I see that there should be some solution emerging out of this whole thing pretty soon. I do not think this is a kind of strike which

should carry on for very long.

Maruti was hit with a similar strike in 2000 and 2001 as well and you emerged clean out of it. How do you plan to emerge

clean out of the strike?

Ans) You see I am not directly dealing with the strike, but all I can say is that the issues then were much more affecting the workers'

livelihood and their incomes and things what they were raising. Plus, there was a question of the then union trying to retain its strong

position in the management of the company itself. Now that all was being challenged and was being put down and that is why that strike took

such a long time. But in this present strike, actually it is in a sense really not much of a strike because there are no real issues involved except

a somewhat political issue of a political party wanting its trade union to get established in a company and not having an independent union in

the company as has been the practice so far in Maruti.

What about the impact of that on demand and the bookings of cars, especially Swift? Do you think there would be a

significant one on the back of this imbroglio between the management and the workers?

Ans) Well, obviously the delay in stepping up production to a level which we had planned is going to affect the delivery of the cars and as you

know the bookings for the new Swift are very high and we have a long waiting list of customers. So, at this point the customers are certainly, I

am sure, feeling that they are being a little bit let down, and all we can say is appeal to them that in the longer term interest of their own

ability to buy good quality cars and maintain supplies, we will appeal to them to bear up with us.
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Marutis Manesar plant workers observeone-hour tool-down strike today

NEW DELHI/MUMBAI, JULY 28:Maruti Suzuki India's Manesar plant observed a one-hour tool down on Thursday in protest of suspension of four workers. The tool-down resulted in a production loss of 20-22 cars, a worker told Business Line.

The workers were suspended for "allegedly assaulting a supervisor" on Wednesday.

When contacted, a company spokesperson said: "One of the supervisors was assaulted by four to five workers yesterday and whendisciplinary action was being taken by way of suspension today, they have struck works at the plant."

Out of them, two are office bearers of the Maruti Suzuki Employees Union (MSEU), including General Secretary, Mr. Shiv Kumar.

Just over a month ago, the workers, demanding a new union, (Maruti Suzuki Employees Union) had called a 13-day stir that resultedin a loss of 13,400 cars valued at Rs 460 crore.

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