Maruti wanted truce, union said no

Hours before they were attacked with iron rods at the Manesar plant of Maruti Suzuki India on July 18, officials had agreed to revoke the suspension of a worker against whom action had been taken earlier in the day after an altercation with a supervisor. But representatives of the workers’ union — ten of them have been arrested so far in connection with the violence in which a general manager was killed — refused to accept the offer of revoking the suspension the next day and insisted on his immediate reinstatement.

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