: A decade after Maruti Suzuki factory violence: How the media undermined the workers’ protest #IndiaNEWS Ten years ago, the long, peaceful struggle of workers at the Maruti Suzuki India Limited plant

A decade after Maruti Suzuki factory violence: How the media undermined the workers’ protest #IndiaNEWS
Ten years ago, the long, peaceful struggle of workers at the Maruti Suzuki India Limited plant in Haryana’s Manesar took a dramatic turn as violence erupted on the premises on July 18, 2012. A human resources managers at the factory, Awanish Kumar Dev, was killed and hundreds were injured as the situation spiralled out of control.The events of that day were an unfortunate culmination of a series of democratic protests by workers in the previous few years against their low wages, precarious working conditions, low wages and the unwillingness of the company management to negotiate with their independent union in good faith.The management and the state held the workers directly responsible for Dev’s death. The workers, however, pointed to the management’s role in stoking violence and arson through hired instigators.The trigger for the events, workers said, was an altercation between a foreman and a worker named Jiya Lal over a casteist slur used by the former. A perspective on the events of that day and the immediate aftermath that was published in the Economic and Political Weekly by labour researcher Rakhi Sehgal can be accessed here.Over the next few days, more than 2,000 Maruti workers were summarily dismissed. Hundreds of them, including the union...Read more

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