The news coming in connection with the workers strike in Maruti Manesar Plant is disturbing. It is the right of the workers to form their union, nobody can question it. It is the fundamental right of the workers and accepted all over the world. But this right is denied to its workers by the Maruti Management. Almost the entire workers in the Manesar plant are on agitation to get this right accepted by the management.
Who is to intervene and ensure the right of the workers? It is the Haryana government in this case. The Labour department should intervene and sort out the issue. Instead, it is completely siding with the management. In the earlier strike also the government has taken the pro-management stand. Now the workers have been vacated from inside the factory to outside the factory stating that they can not sit within 100 metres of the plant.
The entrie workers in the Maruti companies, in addition to the Manesar Plant are on agitation on this issue. The anti-worker actions of the Maruti Management is well known, liking cutting salary for even two minutes delay, restricting even time to go to toilet, snacks etc. as also cutting salary on flimsy grounds.
The Haryana Government had stated that the concilliations will start soon. But the government should stop its pro-management stand and be a true negotiator ensuring the rights of the workers.