Though the 13-day-old strike at Maruti’s Manesar plant ended on Thursday night without the management agreeing to recognise the new union, the newlyformed Maruti Suzuki Employees Union’s (MSEU) has set the ball rolling for its formal registration.
“We have already filed for registration of our union at Chandigarh and will try to formally register it with the Haryana government in the coming days,” said MSEU general secretary Shiv Kumar. “As soon our application gets approved by the state labour department, MSEU will come into effect.”
The company said it has not accepted any new union or its formation and the issue was not part of the Thursday’s negotiated agreement.
India’s largest carmaker said its plant will re-start on Saturday and will also operate on Sunday to make up for the loss of production. The company’s revenue losses mounted to . 600 crore with production of over 13,200 cars impacted by the workers unrest.
“We will resume production on Saturday and all 11 workers have been taken back that would followed an internal inquiry to be done by the company for a disciplinary action,” said a senior executive of Maruti Suzuki.
According to labour experts, the issue of new union rests with the workers and the labour department. “Formation of any union is workers’ rights under the relevant labour laws and in Maruti Suzuki case there is no effective role to be played by the company but the issue needs to be settled between concerned department and the workers representatives,” said a Delhibased labour expert preferring not to be named.
Maruti will reinstate all the sacked 11 employees and has taken a lenient approach on enforcing no-work-no-pay rule and plans to deduct less wages of the workers for every single day of the stir. The company will deduct three-day wages for each day of strike compares to the legal provision of deducting eight-days salary for every single day of protest.
“We have already filed for registration of our union at Chandigarh and will try to formally register it with the Haryana government in the coming days,” said MSEU general secretary Shiv Kumar. “As soon our application gets approved by the state labour department, MSEU will come into effect.”
The company said it has not accepted any new union or its formation and the issue was not part of the Thursday’s negotiated agreement.
India’s largest carmaker said its plant will re-start on Saturday and will also operate on Sunday to make up for the loss of production. The company’s revenue losses mounted to . 600 crore with production of over 13,200 cars impacted by the workers unrest.
“We will resume production on Saturday and all 11 workers have been taken back that would followed an internal inquiry to be done by the company for a disciplinary action,” said a senior executive of Maruti Suzuki.
According to labour experts, the issue of new union rests with the workers and the labour department. “Formation of any union is workers’ rights under the relevant labour laws and in Maruti Suzuki case there is no effective role to be played by the company but the issue needs to be settled between concerned department and the workers representatives,” said a Delhibased labour expert preferring not to be named.
Maruti will reinstate all the sacked 11 employees and has taken a lenient approach on enforcing no-work-no-pay rule and plans to deduct less wages of the workers for every single day of the stir. The company will deduct three-day wages for each day of strike compares to the legal provision of deducting eight-days salary for every single day of protest.
Maruti Suzuki workers flash victory sign as they end their strike after a truce with the management on Thursday night — PTI
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