It is the Maruti Suzuki management that should be in the dock. The workers and their unions should take the Maruti management to court for attempting to bribe worker leaders and for violating labour laws. This would be a fitting reply to the vicious anti-worker-campaign.
It is the Maruti Suzuki management that should be in the dock. The workers and their unions should take the Maruti management to court for attempting to bribe worker leaders and for violating labour laws. This would be a fitting reply to the vicious anti-worker-campaign.
Following the end of the third strike at the Manesar plant of Maruti Suzuki, the management has launched a vicious attack on the workers of the plant and the working class as a whole. After threatening and forcing two leaders who had been suspended to resign their jobs, it has spread stories through the media about how much money it paid to "buy" these two leaders.
The aim of this propaganda is firstly to demoralise the Maruti Suzuki workers and their struggle for forming a union of their choice. Secondly, it is to demoralise all the workers of the Manesar Gurgaon belt, who have been waging a heroic struggle in solidarity with the Maruti workers. The poisonous propaganda of the capitalists amounts to this: "Your struggle is worthless because we can buy your leaders".
The working class cannot be confused by this propaganda. The issue is not any individual but the class struggle that is raging. The workers of Maruti are waging a just struggle for the right to form the union of their choice. The workers of other factories of the region who have participated in solidarity strikes and actions are waging a just struggle in defence of the entire class, upholding the banner that "an attack on one is an attack on all". On the other side, the Maruti Suzuki Management, the Haryana Government, and the Central Government have tried their best to crush the struggle of workers through force. They have denied the workers their legal right to form their union. They have also carried out various nefarious activities to divide the workers.
According to the latest agreement reached, there was supposed to be an enquiry of the suspended workers, in which the Labour Department was also to be a party. However, instead of abiding by the agreement, immense pressure was put on the two leaders to resign, and anti-worker propaganda is now being launched to demoralise the workers.
It is the Maruti Suzuki management that should be in the dock. The workers and their unions should take the Maruti management to court for attempting to bribe worker leaders and for violating labour laws. This would be a fitting reply to the vicious anti-worker-campaign.