Maruti-Suzuki workers have bravely faced all the attacks from the company management and state agencies. They have remained united in their demands for reinstatement of all sacked workers, recognition of their union and withdrawal of to "good conduct bond".
Hundreds of activists of several organisations including Mazdoor Ekta Committee and Lok Raj Sangathan marched on 22 September 2011 from Mandi House in New Delhi to Haryana Bhavan and staged a dharana. The demonstrators militantly shouted slogans against the Maruti management's intense exploitation and harassament of the workers and in support of the right of the Maruti-Suzuki workers for have their own union. They also denounced the Congress government in Haryana, headed by Chief Mininster Hooda for siding with the management. The slogans included "Workers have a right to form their own union!", "Down with the Hooda government for bending over backwards to please Maruti-Suzuki management!", "An attack on one is an attack on All!", "Take back the illegal lock-out of the Maruti-Suzuki plant!", "Down with the attempts of the Central and Haryana government to crush the struggles of the workers!", etc.
Recall that the workers have been fighting to have their own union to represent their interest. Earlier in June this year, they were forced to stop work when the company management locked them in the factory premises and sacked the workers who led the effort to register the union. The strike was called off only after management agreed to take the workers back with the workers going ahead with the registration process of their union. However, Management sent signal to the Haryana government that they wanted the government to support them in crushing the workers. The union registration was rejected on some technical ground and company starting sacking all the workers who were active in the agitation. Many were dragged into court cases on trumped up charges. Company illegally started demanding that they will allow any worker to work only if they sign a "good conduct bond", which the workers have refused.
Maruti-Suzuki workers have bravely faced all the attacks from the company management and state agencies. They have remained united in their demands for reinstatement of all sacked workers, recognition of their union and withdrawal of to "good conduct bond". Other workers from the Gurgaon-Manesar belt as well as workers in other parts India and the world have expressed their solidarity with the just demands of the workers. Many unions have organised stoppage of work in solidarity with the workers of Maruti-Suzuki because everyone realizes that it is not just a question of Maruti-Suzuki factory but a question of the entire working class of India. That an attack on one is an attack on all!