The real picture of the conspiracy of the Haryana Govt and the Maruti Management is exposed now. They were claiming that there was no victimisation of the Maruti workers for the earlier agitations conducted by the employees.

Yesterday the Maruti workers started Hunger Strike at the Mini Secretariat at Gurgaon demanding reinstatement of the sacked workers and release of the 147 workers who are in jail in connection with the earlier agitation. The workers in the jail are also refusing to take food. The police manhandled the workers when they were making arrangements for the hunger strike. It was only after the Central Trade Unions like CITU and AITUC intervened that they were allowed to sit in hunger strike. Despite the intervention a few leaders of the union were taken in to custody and were not released till evening yesterday.

While labour laws and Industrial Disputes Act etc. are there to deal with strikes and such other agitations, the Haryana Government in collaboration with the Maruti Management is dismissing, jailing and victimising the workers. Even the right to protest is being suppressed.  This is what is happening in the neo-liberalisation era. Corporates and employers are given full freedom to do whatever they want. The entire trade union movement in the country has to react against these anti-worker policies to defeat the same.