Admn Served 7-Day Ultimatum to Evict Workers: Honda Labor Dispute
Many workers want to resume their duties with HMSI but they are being threatened by the union and other unscrupulous elements with vested interests.
MANESAR/GURUGRAM: As district administration failed to evict the agitating contractual workers form illegally squatting a piece of government land opposite of 2-wheeler plant of Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India (HMSI) in Manesar, the villagers of 17 surrounding villages on Thursday served a 7-day ultimatum to the local government to remove them.
Failing which, the villagers threatened, they will be left with no option but to take law in their own hands and would be forcibly dragging the workers out of IMT Manesar to save the region from getting further notoriety in the corporate world.
The IMT Industry Association too supported the villager’s concern and offer all-out support to the HMSI where the contractual workers had struck the work on November 5. The contractual workers had laid siege of the factory premises after 200 of their colleagues were denied entry into the plant.
On Thursday, the villagers and IMT Industry Association office-bearers held a meeting at about 100-meter distance from the agitating workers in the tense atmosphere as a moderate contingent of police stood gaurs to thwart any incident of clash between the villagers and agitating contractual workers.
In memorandum served to the deputy commissioner of Gurugram through tehsildar, the Panchayat members said that it was resolved in the meeting that all the necessary steps would be taken to stop the IMT Manesar being labeled as a troubled industrial belt.
“If the administration failed to remove these workers from the area in the next seven days, the people of about 100 villages would gather near the HMSI plant on December 21 and throw them from out of IMT Manesar. And it is only the district administration that will be responsible for any untoward situation arising out of that,” the memorandum stated.
The villagers openly accused the police department of supporting the agitating contractual workers by not acting against them despite the fact they are occupying the government land opposite of the HMSI plant illegally.
Pawan Yadav, the president of the IMT Industry Association called upon the people of the surrounding villages to wake to save this industrial area from gaining notoriety. The industrialists of the area were feeling terrorized because of the workers’ agitation and frequent marches these workers have been staging since November 5.
On the other hand, the HMSI plant is back into action with the majority of the 1864 permanent workers resuming their duties. The plant has started producing motorcycles with a daily target of 1000 with the help of the permanent workers.
According to company sources, more than 100 contractual workers who were agitating and staging a sit-in outside the plant have come back to the plant and settled their dues with the company.
It is an irony that many more such workers want to resume their duties with HMSI but they are being openly threatened by the union and other unscrupulous elements with vested interests.
It is a proven history whenever, the striking workers have defied the union diktat of not resuming their duties and joined back the work, they were assaulted or their lives were turned into hell by the union members.
