Armed Retd Army Personnel for Maruti managers

[Ray]

Gun shield for managers

- Army veterans to guard Maruti supervisors on shop floor

SUJAN DUTTA

Manesar, Aug. 18: An army of veteran soldiers is to join police and private security guard at Maruti Suzuki's Manesar plant tomorrow where violence between workers and supervisors left a manager dead on July 18.

The company has announced that the plant will resume production gradually from Tuesday, a month after a lock-out was declared.

Soldiers with firearms on the shop floor will function as personal security officers (PSOs) for managers, guard them as they move around the plant, from assembly line to assembly line, from the paint shop to the fitting shop, as they interact with workers or sit behind their desks and even escort them from their residences to the workplace.

The soldiers will reinforce a special Rapid Action Force that the Haryana government is raising for the Maruti plant in Manesar and the private security guard that has already been in employ but that could not stop the violence on July 18.

The company believes that soldiers on the shop-floor is a necessary measure to guarantee a modicum of safety for its executives since the killing of human resources manager Awanish Kumar Dev and the injuries to 96 others after the workers ran amok and allegedly set fire to offices.

"We have already hired and trained them. About 25 per cent of the special force will be armed," says S.Y. Siddiqui, the chief operations officer (administration) for the company.

"There is no justification for the crime that happened on July 18. This is not an industrial relations issue; it is a law and order issue," he says.

You can see the trenches in the shopfloor-frontlines of modern Indian industry that the country's biggest car-maker represents. Maruti Suzuki is already a bloodied battlefield.

Siddiqui says that families of Maruti Suzuki's employees were panic-stricken after the riot on July 18.

So pervasive is the fear that workers will repeatedly resort to violence that puts lives of managers at risk that companies in the Gurgaon-Manesar industrial belt are flooding the Haryana government with requests for enhanced security.

Gun shield for managers

The Telegraph in the print format adds:

Workers representatives were quick to interpret Maruti's new stringent security measures as a means to ensure production at gunpoint.

"Multinationals are trying to import a labour regime that is not suited to the Indian workforce", alleged labour researcher Prasenjit Bose, who is a contact point for workers' unions in the area south of Delhi. He was expelled from the CPM in June.

How far is this statement correct:

"There is no justification for the crime that happened on July 18. This is not an industrial relations issue; it is a law and order issue,"?

Can there be a law and order issue in an industrial complex which is not cause by dissatisfaction, justified or unjustified, in the industrial relations?

Or is the Maruti company suggesting that this unrest is caused by a 'foreign hand' aimed to slow India's growth and hence is a law and order issue?

 

[pmaitra]

Nice, India is turning into another fascist state.

Now managers can go around making more casteist remarks with impunity.

It's only a matter of time before something like this happens:

Can't keep blaming Maoists all the time.

 

[pmaitra]

The Telegraph in the print format adds:



How far is this statement correct:

"There is no justification for the crime that happened on July 18. This is not an industrial relations issue; it is a law and order issue,"?

Can there be a law and order issue in an industrial complex which is not cause by dissatisfaction, justified or unjustified, in the industrial relations?

Or is the Maruti company suggesting that this unrest is caused by a 'foreign hand' aimed to slow India's growth and hence is a law and order issue?

Ray Sir,

This is neither a labour issue, nor a foreign hand.

Whatever happened in Manesar is one and only one thing - a natural consequence of running an automobile factory with a majority of temporary workers. Poor management, no respect for labour laws, and irresponsibility.

These idiots, who call themselves managers, need to learn a thing or two about Henry Ford, before they even step into any automobile factory.

 

[Ray]

Wrong work philosophy.

 

[Iamanidiot]

The same thing that happened in the Jharia coal mines and Gangs of wasseypur is all about

 

[Iamanidiot]

Ray Sir,

This is neither a labour issue, nor a foreign hand.

Whatever happened in Manesar is one and only one thing - a natural consequence of running an automobile factory with a majority of temporary workers. Poor management, no respect for labour laws, and irresponsibility.

These idiots, who call themselves managers, need to learn a thing or two about Henry Ford, before they even step into any automobile factory.

Indian labour laws are such that they will choke the Industry if they are followed to the letter.Consequence of an extreme CPI(M) leanings individual drafting the law

 

[Bhadra]

"making castiest remark", "making regional remark" calling someone a low caste etc... are the refuge of the criminals in this country.....

No that people do not make it but punishment for that can not be death by murder.....