Maruti's production woes continue as workers at SPIL adopt Go Slow policy

Another development comes on the Maruti India front. This time workers at Maruti Suzuki India’s engine supplying unit, Suzuki Powertrain India Ltd (SPIL) have adopted the ‘go slow’ policy as a protest against their unsatisfactory solution to the latest 14 day strike in the month of October. Despite the company’s effort to bring an amicable solution to pacify both the parties, the workers are still unhappy about the management’s delay in acting on the issues.

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Apparently, the production at the SPIL plant has dropped by 60%, which is believed to be deliberately instigated by the workers to reveal their dissatisfaction. The SPIL workers are venting out their anger on the management’s inability to comply to their demands and work towards raising their salaries. The workers are blaming the management to cause the indeterminate delay. The workers had initially planned to carry on with the strike to reinstate their union president Subey Singh Yadav and two of their colleagues, but have given in to the management’s false promises to seriously consider the matter. Union president Yadav had expressed his disappointment over the lack of clarity and biased injustice. With the buried dissatisfaction among the workers, the situation at Maruti India does not seem to be favourable leaving the scope for labour unrests spurting out in future. All the workers abide unanimously for reinstating their leaders.

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The SPIL workers are said to be shell-shocked after the event, where 30 dismissed or suspended workers resigned after a cash settlement of around Rs 16 lakhs from the company. The workers have taken a similar stand during August, this year to protest against the company’s decision to make the workers sign the ‘good conduct bond’ in August by purposefully slowing down the production. The SPIL plant is known to supply the petrol and diesel engines apart from the transmissions to the other plants from where the car units are rolled out. Overall, the SPIL plant rolls out 3 lakh units of engines and transmission enabling the rest of the MSI plants to function normally. The recent unrest at the Manesar plant and the other MSI plants has been the reason of dipping sales of Maruti cars including its best-selling car Maruti Swift. The waiting period for Maruti Swift and Maruti Swift Dzire cars are said to touch 9 months mark.

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