[Reader-list] Maruti: union statement

[Partha Dasgupta]

In this case - you do have the right idea.
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Partha Dasgupta
+919811047132



On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Jeebesh <jeebesh at sarai.net> wrote:

> How do you treat your animals Mr.Dasgupta? Send them to slaughter houses?
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> On 21-Jul-2012, at 10:18 AM, Partha Dasgupta wrote:
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> If they behave like animals, they deserve to be treated like animals.
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> What the workers did can not be condoned, and they deserve to be
> punished... severely.
> ...........................
> Partha Dasgupta
> +919811047132
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> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Nagraj Adve <nagraj.adve at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> *PRESS STATEMENT*
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> *19TH July 2012*
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> * *
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> The Maruti Suzuki Workers Union (MSWU) is anguished at the recent
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> developments in Maruti Suzuki plant, IMT Manesar where the management has
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> resorted to anti-worker and anti-Union activities in a pre-planned manner
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> leading to violence and the closure of the factory yesterday.
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> We have had a long tough struggle with the strong unity of our permanent
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> and contract workers to establish and register our Union last year, and had
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> recently as of April 2012 submitted our Charter of Demands to the
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> management of Maruti Suzuki, and the process of negotiation for wages and
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> other demands was underway. However the management has done its utmost to
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> derail the process since long and is trying to break the back of the spirit
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> of unity of the workers and the legitimacy of the Union.
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> It is due to this, and continuing with this vindictive attitude and in a
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> pre-planned manner, yesterday, the afternoon of 18thJuly, a supervisor in
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> the shop floor abused and made casteist comments against a dalit worker of
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> the permanent category, which was legitimately protested by the worker.
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> Instead of taking action against the said supervisor, the management
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> immediately suspended the worker concerned without any investigation as was
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> demanded by the workers. When the workers along with Union representatives
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> went to meet the HR to demand against the supervisor and revoke the unjust
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> suspension of the worker, the HR officials flatly refused to hear our
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> arguments, and it was in no mood to resolve the issue amicably.
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> When the negotiation was going on with the leaders of the Union inside the
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> office, the management called in the entry of hundreds of bouncers on its
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> payroll from outside the plant to attack the workers, and blocked the exit.
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> This is completely an illegal vindictive action in the spirit of conspiracy
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> to corner us into submission even as our demands and methods are legitimate
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> and peaceful. The exit gates were closed by the security on behest of the
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> management and the bouncers brutally attacked the workers with sharp
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> weapons and arms. They, joined by some of the managerial staff and police
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> later, beat up a number of workers who have had to be hospitalised with
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> serious injuries. The bouncers, who are anti-social elements on hire, also
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> destroyed company property and set fire to a portion of the factory. The
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> gates were later opened to oust the workers and enforce a lockout by the
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> company.
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> We have the workers and the company’s welfare in mind and have worked
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> towards it after the resolution of the dispute last year, and to blame the
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> current violence on us is unjust, which should be properly investigated. We
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> are still keen to dialogue with the company and want to sit with the
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> company management and the government labour department to amicably resolve
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> the matter and restore industrial peace in the factory.
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> Ram Meher
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> President, Maruti Suzuki Workers Union (MSWU)
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