Brakes on at Manesar

On June 17 this year, the management of India’s largest car manufacturer, the Rs 37,522-crore Maruti Suzuki Ltd, buckled under pressure to buy peace with workers at its Manesar unit in Haryana. They had been on strike for 13 days demanding the recognition of a new but yet-to-be registered union, Maruti Suzuki Employees Union, that was to be different from the Maruti Udyog Kamgar Union at its Gurgaon mother plant. At the end of the 13-day strike, the company reinstated 11 workers who had been earlier sacked for indiscipline. A precedent had been set, something that returned to haunt the management barely 45 days later.

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