Three union representatives from MSEU in police custody

The police has allegedly detained three of MSI’s proposed Maruti Suzuki Employees Union (MSEU) leaders – the president, Mr Sonu Kumar Gujjar; the General Secretary, Shiv Kumar and Ravinder Singh for hampering the work by assaulting the supervisors and workers. All three union leaders are said to be produced in front of court today. Apparently the workers at the factory are furious with the MSI management for employing such sly tactics to get the three leaders under arrest without having an FIR lodged against them.

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The employee agitation at Maruti India's Manesar facility had started on August 29th after the company had insisted to sign the good conduct bond by the workers before entering the work premises. The company had come up with the decision to get the employees to sign the good conduct bond due to a few workers’ who had participated in sabotaging the operations at the factory. Since the labour unrest, the management had suspended and dismissed 62 workers on creating the quality issues and the company is apparently ready to take back 14 trainees. However, the workers who are still continuing with the strike, wish to take all the suspended employees back.

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Earlier last week, around 1500 hundred of the permanent employees from the company had staged a rally as a protest against the management. The employees sought the intervention from the district authorities in Gurgaon to bring a solution to the on-going strike. The employees had put forward their demands, which also included the acceptance of the proposed MSEU union by the management. The MSI however, did not compromise on the ‘good conduct bond’ and decided to increase their workforce alternatively. The MSI’s best-selling hatchback Maruti Swift production has reached 600 units on daily basis from Monday accounting from Manesar and the Gurgaon plant together.

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