Maruti Suzuki India may reconcile soon with its workers who have been on strike since June 4th, 2011, at the company’s Manesar plant. Maruti Suzuki India has softened its stand against its workers and has expressed its willingness to recognize the new union-the chief demand of its workers. Owing to the strike, the company has lost the production of around 7,800 cars and Rs. 390 crore in the last eight days.
The workers are also willing to end the strike if the company decides to reinstate the 11 workers sacked earlier last week. The company so far has expressed its inclination of reinstating five out of eleven workers. Stating the various options available to the company to choose from to avoid agitations in future, MSI managing executive officer (administration) SY Siddiqui said, “One of the possibilities is to have individual local plant unions with an umbrella governing council that has members taken from the local plant’s union.” The governing council will also take active part in planning out the future company policies to avoid unrest among workers.
Haryana’s Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda had also met AITUC secretary DL Sachdev along with AITUC general secretary Gurudas Dasgupta two times last week to work on a solution to end the strike. Haryana government had taken a tough stand against the workers on strike and had declared the strike as illegal and had imposed a ban on the strike by passing prohibitory orders.