New Delhi: After a month-long lockout at its Manesar facility, Maruti Suzuki India is ready to reopen the plant on Tuesday with less than a tenth of its total workforce slated to resume operations in a single shift. The company had declared an indefinite lockout at the Manesar plant on July 21 following the worst ever violence in its history on July 18 that left one senior official dead and...
05:00 PM, Aug 20, 2012
Gurgaon: Workers from different factories in the Gurgaon-Manesar industrial belt along with trade unions cutting across political affiliations on Friday opposed sacking of 500 workers at Maruti Suzuki India's (MSI) Manesar plant and demanded their immediate reinstatement. Representatives of All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC), Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), Bhartiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS), Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS), All India United Trade Union Centre (AIUTUC), All India Central Council...
11:14 PM, Aug 17, 2012
New Delhi: Left trade unions CITU and AITUC on Friday criticised Maruti Suzuki for deciding to dismiss 500 regular workers before reopening its plant in Gurgaon and demanded Haryana government's intervention to ensure that the decision is reversed. Condemning the decision, CITU General Secretary Tapas Sen said they opposed the violence at the Maruti Suzuki Plant on July 18 in which the General Manager of the factory was killed and...
07:04 PM, Aug 17, 2012
New Delhi: Maruti Suzuki will resume production at its Manesar plant from August 21, sources say. They, however, add that trouble could spark off again with union workers protesting against the sacking of 500 regular workers for the July violence. The management also plans to put in place 100 armed security guards at the Manesar plant. On Thursday, the police arrested the main accused in the violence, Jiya Lal. The...
09:52 AM, Aug 17, 2012
New Delhi: Maruti Suzuki has decided to resume production at the riot-hit Manesar plant from August 21 even as the main accused in the violence that led to the shut down was arrested on Wednesday, almost a month after the incident. Addressing the media, Maruti Suzuki Chairman RC Bhargava announced that 500 workers have been sacked for indulging in violence in which a senior plant official was killed and several...
05:01 PM, Aug 16, 2012
Gurgaon: The main accused in the Maruti Suzuki's Manesar plant violence, Jiya Lal, was arrested on Thursday. His arrest came almost a month after the factory was shutdown following the violence in which a Maruti official was killed. Maruti factory workers allege that the supervisor had made castist remark against Jiya Lal which led to a spat and then violence at the plant. While over 100 were injured in the...
12:31 PM, Aug 16, 2012
Tokyo: India's largest car maker Maruti Suzuki India Ltd will restart production at its Manesar factory early next week after a deadly riot shut the plant last month, the Nikkei business daily reported. The 550,000 vehicles-a-year factory in Haryana, where the unit of Japan's Suzuki Motor Corp makes its best-selling Swift hatchback, has been idle since the July 18 clash between workers and management over pay left one dead, scores...
01:38 AM, Aug 16, 2012
New Delhi: Maruti Suzuki India on Friday said it would take a decision on Monday on reopening of its violence-hit Manesar plant where the company had declared a lockout on July 21. "We expect the police report on violence at the plant on Monday. We will take this up along with the technical assessment report of plant and report on the state of the employees who were injured in the...
06:38 PM, Aug 10, 2012
New Delhi: The Centre on Thursday ruled out involvement of Maoists in July 18 violence in Maruti's Manesar plant that claimed the life of a senior executive. A top Home Ministry official said this conclusion has come after a probe looked into all angles, including the possibility of Maoists link to the violence. "There was no Maoist link into the violence in Maruti plant. We have investigated from all angles,"...
07:42 PM, Aug 09, 2012
Manesar: Hiding in his office near New Delhi as workers armed with iron bars and car parts rampaged through the factory, Maruti Suzuki supervisor Raj Kumar spent two terrified hours trying to comprehend the warzone his workplace had become. By the end of the day, one of his colleagues had been burnt to death and dozens wounded, many with broken bones, as a long-running struggle between the shop floor and...
11:38 AM, Aug 06, 2012
Gurgaon: The Maruti Suzuki management on Sunday organised a candlelight march in Gurgaon to pay tribute to its senior executive Awanish Kumar Dev who was killed in the July 18 violence at the company's plant in Manesar. Nearly 300 company officials including senior executives SY Siddqi, Ratan Aggarwal, Capt Deepak Anand, Capt Naresh, Sanjay Narang, KK Sharma, CS Raju, Prasad Verma and Ashok Kumar along with others assembled in the...
10:19 AM, Aug 06, 2012
Kolkata: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Sunday said he expected Maruti's Manesar plant to resume production shortly. "Production will begin soon and we are trying to do it as early as possible," Hooda said here at an interactive session with MCC Chamber of Commerce & Industry. He, however, could not give a time-line by which the production at the Maruti facility would resume. Maruti Suzuki on July 21...
05:45 PM, Aug 05, 2012
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03:15 PM, Aug 05, 2012
New Delhi: The government will conduct a thorough investigation into Maruti's allegation that July 18 violence in its Manesar plant was the handiwork of "extreme left wing elements". A top Home Ministry official said the probe would look into all possible angles and find out whether there was any link of Maoists to the violence in which one senior executive was killed. Appearing in a panel discussion on a television...
08:56 PM, Aug 02, 2012
Gurgaon: Twelve days after violence at carmaker Maruti's Manesar plant claimed the life of a senior executive, the culprits continue to be at large. The company is yet to take a decision on resumption of operations, an official said on Monday. The company will announce it's decision to this effect only when it is assured of employee safety, an official spokesperson said. The labour violence which rocked the Manesar facility...
02:15 AM, Jul 31, 2012
New Delhi: Contract labourers working in factories of component suppliers to Maruti Suzuki could bear the brunt of the lockout at the Manesar plant of India's largest carmaker. Working on wafer thin margins amid stiff competition, many of the component suppliers which have been already feeling the heat due to an overall slowdown in the automotive market, are considering to reduce their workforce. "If there is prolonged lockout at Maruti's...
04:28 AM, Jul 30, 2012
New Delhi: Contract labourers working in factories of component suppliers to Maruti Suzuki could bear the brunt of the lockout at the Manesar plant of India's largest carmaker. Working on wafer thin margins amid stiff competition, many of the component suppliers which have been already feeling the heat due to an overall slowdown in the automotive market, are considering to reduce their workforce. "If there is prolonged lockout at Maruti's...
01:40 PM, Jul 29, 2012
Ahmedabad: Country's largest car manufacturer Maruti Suzuki is expected to begin construction of its proposed manufacturing unit in Mandal taluka near here within the next three months, a top state official said. Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi recently met Suzuki Motor Corp Chairman & CEO Osamu Suzuki during his Japan tour. "Chairman of Suzuki has said they will start the work on setting up car manufacturing plant at Mandal soon,...
12:50 AM, Jul 29, 2012
New Delhi: Maruti Suzuki (MRTI.NS), India's biggest carmaker, lagged estimates with a 23 per cent fall in fiscal first-quarter profit, its fourth consecutive quarterly profit decline, as a weak local rupee currency pushed up costs. Maruti, 54.2 per cent owned by Japan's Suzuki Motor Corp (7269.T), said net profit fell to 4.24 billion rupees for the three months to June from 5.49 billion rupees a year earlier. "Adverse currency movements,...
04:05 PM, Jul 28, 2012
New Delhi: Violence at the Manesar factory of India's largest car maker Maruti last week had left one of its senior employees dead and 90 others injured. But what exactly happened on that fateful day? A senior Maruti official recounted the horror to CNN-IBN. On the day, he was busy negotiating with the workers before the violence broke out. On July 18, the day began as usual at Maruti Suzuki's...
06:49 AM, Jul 28, 2012
