Chandigarh: Haryana Parliamentary Affairs Minister Randeep Surjewala on Monday claimed that the India Against Corruption (IAC) workers who protested outside the Delhi residence of Lok Sabha MP Deepender Hooda were "mostly workers dismissed by Maruti Udyog" following the recent violence at Manesar.
"The action of the protesters breaking police barriers and indulging in violence is undemocratic and deeply condemnable," the minister said in an official statement.
The protesters were mostly workers dismissed by Maruti Udyog following the recent violence at Manesar earlier this year, he said on the agitation held on Sunday.
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10:50 PM, Oct 22, 2012
New Delhi: The violence at Maruti Suzuki India's Manesar plant in July was not instigated from outside, but was due to internal issues between management and workers, according to the chargesheet filed by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) formed to probe the incident. Charges against 145 persons have been framed after interviewing 300 witnesses by the Haryana Police. "The chargesheet was filed last week. It was found that the violence...
10:22 PM, Oct 15, 2012
New Delhi: Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) on Wednesday said it expects to have full employee strength at its troubled Manesar plant by the end of September with the completion of fresh recruitments. "The regularisation of contract workers and new recruitments are going on and this will be over in the next 10 days. By the last week of September, our total manpower will be in place at Manesar plant," MSI...
01:32 PM, Sep 05, 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
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
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
A week since the unrest, the Manesar plant of Maruti remains shut indefinitely and the management is not ready for any compromise with the workers. ...
12:23 PM, Jul 24, 2012
Manesar: Representatives of nearly 200 villages gathered at Manesar on Monday for a mahapanchayat in support of Maruti. The village elders condemned the Manesar factory workers for the violence that took place last week in which one general manager was burnt to death. The villagers also called for a peaceful resolution to the stand-off between the company and its workers. The villages depend heavily on Maruti for their livelihood as...
11:29 AM, Jul 23, 2012
Gurgaon: Six more workers have been arrested for their alleged involvement in arson and rioting in Maruti Suzuki's Manesar plant on Wednesday, the police said on Sunday. Awanish Dev, General Manager-HR, died and 100 others were injured in the incident. Those arrested have been identified as Sohan Lal, a resident of Karnal, Yogesh Kumar, organising secretary of Maruti Suzuki Union and a resident of Jhajjar, Surender Pal of Palwal district,...
07:33 PM, Jul 22, 2012
Gurgaon: Violence in Maruti's plant at Manesar in Haryana on Wednesday, in which a top company executive was killed, may be the result of a planned action by a section of workers and union leaders, police said on Saturday. "The Maruti Suzuki management at Manesar plant could not estimate the action plan of workers. Workers on Wednesday first vandalised the control room and HR section of the plant and then...
08:49 AM, Jul 22, 2012
Chandigarh: The Haryana government on Saturday termed the lockout by Maruti Suzuki at its Manesar facility as "appropriate". "If they (Maruti) have announced it (lockout) then it is appropriate considering what workers have done at Manesar facility," Haryana Labour and Employment Minister Shiv Charan Lal Sharma said. He added that the company must have announced lockout "after giving some careful thought". Maruti Suzuki's General Manager Human Resources Awanish Kumar Dev...
08:30 PM, Jul 21, 2012
New Delhi: Calling the violence at its Manesar plant "shattering", Maruti Chairman RC Bhargava on Saturday said that the automobile manufacturer was doing its best to tackle the mess. "What happened was a shattering incident. We are tackling the mess," he said at a press briefing. Bhargava said that the company never imagined its own workers would indulge in violence. "There was no victimization of workers at the unit. Problems...
04:04 PM, Jul 21, 2012
