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The Sangrami Bam Samanway has organised a sit-in demonstration at Y- Channel, Dharmatolla, Kolkata which will be held from 12 noon to 5 PM on 3.02.2014. The demonstration will be held as a protest against the growing misery of the people due to unemployment, price rise , the increasing attack on the democratic rights of […]

Evolving Reports from Jan Jagran Yatra News from the Jan Jagran Yatra will be regularly given here. Hora: A play on Maruti Suzuki Workers’ Struggle Jan Jagaran Yatra reaches Delhi on 17th Day in a mass protest demonstration 31/1/2014 Sixteen days across cities, towns, villages of Haryana and through Gurgaon and Delhi, marching with our […]

By Shankar Guha Niyogi Editor’s Note: This month we are again reproducing an article from the Shankar Guha Niyogi – CMM Archive at Sanhati. In this publication, published a year after the assassination of Shankar Guha Niyogi on September 28th, 1991 in the CMSS office in Bhilai, the Jan Vikas Andolan calls for a ‘Niyogi […]

By Alok Bhattacharya The ‘broom’ is out, out in the centre stage. Recent political news in the country is splashed with the phenomenon of corruption and the ‘broom’ that has emerged as the election symbol to shoulder the onus of driving corruption out of the country. In a distant simile, people familiar with the cartoons […]

By Tathagata Sengupta Director Subrat Kumar Sahu, in the context of his earlier movie DAMaged, had said, “In order to understand how modern tools of development clinically destroy self-reliant communities and yet succeed in influencing the entire nation to celebrate the outcome as ‘progress’, come to Kalahandi, in the state of Orissa in India!”. With […]

 

 

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                                                                      MARUTI SUZUKI WORKERS UNION  

(Registration No. 1923)

IMT Manesar, Gurgaon

Ref. No… IN31/1/2014                                                                  Date…31/1/2014

 

 

Jan Jagaran Yatra reaches Delhi on 17^th Day in a mass protest demonstration
‘जुल्मी कब तक जुल्म करेगा शोषण़ के हथियारों से, हम भी उसको ध्वस्त करेंगे एकताबद्ध कतारों से।’

Sixteen days across cities, towns, villages of Haryana and through Gurgaon and Delhi, marching with our bare but united voice of anger and struggle against injustice, we organized a Protest Demonstration in Jantar Mantar today 31^st January 2014. We marched from in front of the Parliament House, Delhi, also sloganeering in front of Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Hooda’s residence before reaching Jantar Mantar. Today’s show of solidarity with our struggle enthused us, as all Trade Unions of Gurgaon, Delhi-NCR and a number of student-youth, women’s and mass democratic and political organisations, as well as prominent intellectuals came together. We submitted a memorandum supported by all organisations to the President of India.

 

Workers, workers organisations and Trade Unions were present in full solidarity. Suzuki Powertrain India Employees Union, Maruti Udyog Kamgar Union, Suzuki Motorcycles India Employees Union, RICO Employees Union, FCC Rico Employees Union, Nerolac Employees Union- Rewari, Venus Workers Union-Faridabad, Subros Employees Union, Bajaj Motors Employees Union spoke in solidarity. National Trade Union federations like AITUC, AICCTU, AIUTUC, CITU, HMS, ICTU, IFTU, AIFTU(New), NTUI and others were present. Among those present were also AITUC’s national president Amrajeet Kaur and CITU’s national leader Tapan Sen.

 

Yogendra Yadav as well as Arundhati Roy also expressed solidarity with the struggle. Mass democratic organisations like Jan Sangharsh Manch Haryana, Inqlabi Mazdoor Kendra, Shramik Sangram Committee, Krantikari Naujawan Sabha, Mazdoor Patrika, Sangharsrat Mehnatkash patrika, Mazdoor Ekta Committee, PUDR, Samtamulak Mahila Sagathan were present who mobilized many democratic loving people. Solidarity greetings from across the country and even abroad came with participation and solidarity messages from a number of worker organisations like CMM- Mazdoor Karyakarta Committee, Inqlabi Jan Awaz patrika from Punjab, Hyundai Motors Employees Union and CITU Tamil Nadu, Toyota Employees Union Chennai, and countless others. Trade Union Solidarity Committee- Mumbai also organized campaign and fund collection through postcards made with working class murals. We also received solidarity greetings from Thai Suzuki Workers Union from Thailand. Support from student community also energized the meeting. Other than JNUSU, organisations like AISA, DSF, DSU, Nauroj, Pratidhwani, SFI, TNM, VSM, VYS and many others were present. The struggle on the streets as well as the legal battle is alive with the spirit of workers and pro-worker masses strengthened.

 

The Jan Jagaran Yatra, foot-march against injustice, which started on 15^th January 2014 from Kaithal, Haryana and walked through 300km across Kaithal, Jind, Rohtak, Jhajjar, Gurgaon in Haryana before reaching Delhi. All the terminated workers and a number of our families of both arrested and terminated workers participated with vigour in the march. 2500 families who have been reduced to penury, joblessness and face continuous harassment and repression from the police-administration and delay in justice, hence a denying of justice by the courts till date, have thus shown the indomitable spirit of struggle even almost 2 years into this difficult road. We have received tremendous support, solidarity and encouragement from ordinary workers, peasants, students and individuals in all the villages, towns of the state of Haryana and nearby areas that we have walked through. These ordinary mehnatkash toilers tell us during the season of electoral calculations, that our struggle is a just struggle against exploitation and injustice wrought about the combined might of the government-administration-police serving capitalists like Maruti Suzuki management. Our bail plea of arrested 148 workers has been earlier rejected in the lower court and HC on the absurd ground of ‘hampering foreign investment’ make a mockery of the system of justice. The appeal against this rejection is pending in the Supreme Court, with a hearing that happened today postponed again to 3^rd February 2014. Representing the State of Haryana on a payroll of Rs. 11.25 lakh per hearing, Adv. KTS Tulsi presented his papers of objection to the bail plea while our counsel Adv. Vrinda Grover argued the delaying and denying of justice to workers who have been made part of conspiracy by the Maruti Suzuki management. Cases against 100 workers and trial on 11 workers and activists in Kaithal are also going on. The labour cases are also pending where we are arguing against the complete illegality of the move of Maruti Suzuki management to have terminated workers without any domestic enquiry on speculative flimsy grounds.

 

We marched through Delhi yesterday. While in Gurgaon, hundreds of workers and all Trade Unions came in our support making the struggle the indicator of common struggle of workers in the entire industrial belt of Gurgaon-Manear-Dharuhera-Bawal, in the rousing welcome and solidarity meetings in various towns and villages of Haryana and in Delhi, we saw another possibility of forging a mass solidarity with the struggle of workers.

 

Day before, after our protest demonstration in front of the Maruti Suzuki factory in Gurgaon along with workers and Union from the plant, we walked to the Maruti Suzuki All-India Head Quarters in Vasant Kunj, New Delhi, where we organized another protest demonstration with slogans of ‘Release the Arrested Workers’ and ‘Stop Repression through slapping false cases and continued Harassment of worker families’, ‘Bring the conspiratorial anti-worker management to book’. Our demand of an impartial investigation into the incident which has also been denied us, point to the way in which we have been targeted by the anti-worker management and the anti-worker government.

 

WE reiterate our demands of release of 148 arrested workers who have been denied bail for the last 18 month, reinstatement of all terminated workers, and an impartial investigation into the incident of 18^th July 2012. In the last three years, our struggle has seen a long road. We have seen the pro-corporate, anti-worker, anti-people faces of the company management, labour and other administrative departments, the police and courts, and if our demands are not met, we shall intensify our struggle in the coming says. We salute the mass show of unity in today’s demonstration, and appeal to all workers, trade unions, student-youth and women’s organisations, and mass and democratic organizations and individuals to join us in spreading the struggle.

 

Inquilab Zindabad!

(Ramniwas, Mahabir, Rajpal, Katar, Yogesh)

Provisional Working Committee

Maruti Suzuki Workers Union

 

Contact: 08901127876, 9560564754, 9466167876, marutiworkerstruggle@gmail.com
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                                            MARUTI SUZUKI WORKERS UNION  

(Registration No. 1923)

IMT Manesar, Gurgaon

Ref. No… IN30/1/2014                                                                  Date…30/1/2014

 

 

Jan Jagaran Yatra 16^th Day
‘जुल्मी कब तक जुल्म करेगा शोषण़ के हथियारों से, हम भी उसको ध्वस्त करेंगे एकताबद्ध कतारों से।’

We marched through Delhi today on the 16^th day of our Jan Jagaran Yatra, foot-march against injustice, which started on 15^th January 2014 from Kaithal, Haryana and have marched through 300km across cities, towns and villages of Kaithal, Jind, Rohtak, Jhajjar, Gurgaon in Haryana before reaching Delhi yesterday. We marched through Delhi today through IIT Gate-AIIMS-INA-Janpath and organised protest demonstrations across the city.

 

Yesterday, after our protest demonstration in front of the Maruti Suzuki factory in Gurgaon along with workers and Union from the plant, we walked to the Maruti Suzuki All-India Head Quarters in Vasant Kunj, New Delhi, where we organized another protest demonstration with slogans of ‘Release the Arrested Workers’ and ‘Stop Repression through slapping false cases and continued Harassment of worker families’, ‘Bring the conspiratorial anti-worker management to book’. Our demand of an impartial investigation into the incident which has also been denied us, point to the way in which we have been targeted by the anti-worker management and the anti-worker government.

 

In JNU yesterday after the demonstration in front of Maruti Suzuki HQ, we marched through the JNU after a rousing welcome by all student organisations, where the JNUSU and all student-youth organisations like AISA, AISF, DSF, DSU, Janrang, KNS, SFI, RCF, TNM, VSM, VYS and others expressed solidarity with the struggle. Com. Ramniwas of MSWU welcomed this show of unity and said that while in Gurgaon, hundreds of workers and all Trade Unions came in our support making our struggle the indicator of common struggle of workers in the entire industrial belt of Gurgaon-Manear-Dharuhera-Bawal, in the rousing welcome and solidarity meeting in Delhi yesterday by student-youth organisations, we saw another possibility of forging a mass solidarity with the struggle of workers. He also said that while when in Delhi, an aam aadmi chief minister sits on hunger strike for one day, the entire corporate media comes to the rescue, workers who have been struggling for over 2 and a half years and currently walking over 300 km from Kaithal to Delhi through the biting winter get no space to voice their anger except on the streets. He called upon all to join Maruti workers and families on 31^st January at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi. JNUSU President Akbar, Prof. K.J. Mukherjee of JNU and others also said expressed hope that struggles like these will show way forward for rising tide of struggles.

 

WE reiterate our demands of release of 148 arrested workers who have been denied bail for the last 18 month, reinstatement of all terminated workers, and an impartial investigation into the incident of 18^th July 2012. In the last three years, our struggle has seen a long road. We have seen the pro-corporate, anti-worker, anti-people faces of the company management, labour and other administrative departments, the police and courts, and if our demands are not met, we shall intensify our struggle in the coming says. We appeal to all workers, trade unions, student-youth and women’s organisations, and mass and democratic organizations and individuals to join us on 31^st January 2014 in the mass protest demonstration in Jantar Mantar from 11am and spread the struggle.

 

Inquilab Zindabad!

(Ramniwas, Mahabir, Rajpal, Katar, Yogesh)

Provisional Working Committee

Maruti Suzuki Workers Union

Contact: 08901127876, 9560564754, 9466167876, marutiworkerstruggle@gmail.com

   MARUTI SUZUKI WORKERS UNION  

(Registration No. 1923)

IMT Manesar, Gurgaon

Ref. No… IN30/1/2014                                                                  Date…30/1/2014

 

 

जनजागरण यात्रा का 16वा दिन राजधानी दिल्ली पहुँची
जो दरिया झूम के उट्ठे हैं, तिनकों से न टाले जाएंगे!

दिल्ली, 30 जनवरी। अन्याय के विरुद्ध मारुति-सुजुकी वर्कर्स यूनियन, मानेसर के मज़दूरों और हमारे परिवारों की ‘जनजागरण यात्रा’ लगातार जन-समर्थन जुटाते हुए आज राजधानी दिल्ली के अन्दर से अपना रोष प्रकट करते हुए अपनी पदयात्रा को आगे बढाया। दिल्ली के जेएनयू से शुरू करते हुए आईआईटी, एम्स, सफदरजंग हवाईअड्डा, जनपथ होते हुए जंतरमंतर तक की यात्रा की गयी। कल 31 जनवरी को दिल्ली जंतर मंतर में विशाल प्रतिरोध सभा आयोजित किया जायेगा जिसमे शामिल होने का आह्वान मारुति सुजुकी वर्कर्स यूनियन के तरफ से दिया गया। गुडगाँव से दिल्ली में प्रवेश करते हुए कल 29 जनवरी शाम को जवाहर लाल नेहरू विश्वविद्यालय में हम पहुचे जहाँ जेएनयू छात्रसंघ ने मारुति मजदूरों के संघर्ष से सालीडर्टी जताते हुए सांस्कृतिक कार्यक्रम का आयोजन किया, जिसमे सभी छात्र-युवा संगठन शामिल थे। छात्रों ने जेएनयू गेट से ही गगन भेदी नारों के साथ जत्थे का स्वागत किया। उसके बाद बिविन्न संगठनो व सांस्कृतिक ग्रुपों के सैकरो छात्र व कुछ अध्यापक लाल झंडो के साथ पुरे केम्पस को जुलूस निकाल के नारों के साथ गुन्जायमान कर दिया। उसके बाद विभिन्न सांस्कृतिक ग्रौपो ने गीत संगीत नाटक का कार्यक्रम प्रस्तुतु कर, जहा साशक वर्ग के दमनकारी चरित्र को बेपर्दा का दिया, वही दूसरी तरफ उन्होंने मेहनतकशो के संघर्ष के विरासत को भी याद दिलाकर मजदूरों व युवाओ का संघर्ष के प्रति होसला अफज़ाई की।

इससे पूर्व कल 29 जनवरी को यात्रा की शुरुआत मारुति-सुजुकी के गुड़गाँव प्लाण्ट पर प्रतिरोध प्रदर्शन से हुई। यहाँ मारुति उद्योग कामगार यूनियन (मुकु) ने मारुति मानेसर के संघर्षरत मजदूर साथियों को समर्थन दिया। आयोजित सभा को सम्बोधित करते हुए मुकु के पदाधिकारियो ने कहा कि उनकी यूनियन यथाशीघ्र सुजुकी ग्रुप के अध्यक्ष ओ सुजुकी के समक्ष मारुति मानेसर के मजदूरों के मुद्दे को उठाएगी। इसके पश्चात जत्था दिल्ली कापसहेड़ा के गारमेण्ट उद्योग के मजदूरों के बीच नुक्कड सभाएं करते हुए गयी। इसके बाद, जेएनयू पहुँचने से पहले मारुति सुजुकी हेद्क्वार्तार्स, वसंत कुंज के सामने हमने जोरदार प्रतिरोध प्रदर्शन किया। 28 जनवरी को यात्रा टीम ने गुडगाँव के विभिन्न हिस्सों में नुक्कड सभाएं कीं और संघर्ष के लिए जनसमर्थन जुटाया। इस दौरान गुडगाँव में सैकडों मजदूरों व सभी ट्रेड यूनियन ने अभियान में भागेदारी की और एकजुटता प्रदर्शित की और अर्थिक सहयोग भी दिया। पूरे अभियान के दौरान मजदूरों के परिजनों के साथ विभिन्न जन संगठनों की सक्रिय भागेदारी बनी रही।

उल्लेखनीय है कि यूनियन बनाने से खफा मारुति प्रबन्धन एक साजिश के तहत मजदूरों को फंसा कर बाहर कर दिया है। जबकि तमाम सबूत इस बात के गवाह हैं कि 18 जुलाई 2012 की कम्पनी में घटित दुर्भाग्यपूर्ण घटना में मजदूर की कोई संलिप्तता नहीं है। इसके बावजूद 148 बेगुनाह मजदूर 18 माह से जेल की कालकोठरी में बन्द हैं और लगभग ढाई हजार स्थाई-अस्थाई मज़दूरों की सेवाएं गैरकानूनी तरीके से प्रबन्धन ने समाप्त कर दी हैं। इस पूरे मसले पर पूरा सरकारी तंत्र जापानी मालिकों के दिशा-निर्देश पर काम कर रहा है। विगत डेढ साल से मारुति मजदूर अपने साथियों की रिहाई और कार्य बहाली के लिए संघर्षरत हैं।

इसी क्रम में, मारुति-सुजुकी, मानेसर के मज़दूर, उनके परिजन व समर्थक विगत 15 जनवरी से कैंथल से दिल्ली तक पद यात्रा पर निकले हुए हैं। ‘हमारे साथियों को रिहा करो’, ‘मारुति मजदूरों की कार्यबहाली करो’, ‘जुल्मी कबतक जुल्म करेगा शोषण के हथियारों से, हम भी उसको ध्वस्त करेंगे एकताबद्ध कतारों से’ आदि नारों के साथ कैंथल से दिल्ली तक की 16 दिनी यह पदयात्रा कैथल, जींद, रोहतक, झज्जर, गुडगाँव का भ्रमण करते हुए न्याय पाने का अपना संकल्प आम जन तक पहुँचाया। जहाँ प्रशासनिक बाधाओं के बावजूद स्थानीय जनता ने हरतरह का सहयोग प्रदान किया और समर्थन का भरोसा दिया।

मारुति सुजुकी वर्कर्स यूनियन के प्रतिनिधि रामनिवास ने मजदूरों, छात्रों-नौजवानों, बुद्धिजीवियों और समस्त न्यायशील जनता का आह्वान करते हुए बताया कि 31 जनवरी 2014 को प्रातः 11 बजे जंतर-मंतर पर आयोजित प्रतिरोध प्रदर्शन में भाग लेकर अन्याय के विरुद्ध न्याय के इस संघर्ष को मजबूत बनाएं।

 

 

(रामनिवास, महाबीर, राजपाल, योगेश, कटार)

प्रोविजनल वर्किंग कमेटी

मारुति सुजुकी वर्कर्स यूनियन

 

संपर्क: 08901127876, 9560564754, 9466167876, marutiworkerstruggle@gmail.com

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   MARUTI SUZUKI WORKERS UNION  

(Registration No. 1923)

IMT Manesar, Gurgaon

Ref. No… IN29/1/2014                                                                  Date…29/1/2014

 

 

Jan Jagaran Yatra 15^th Day
‘जुल्मी कब तक जुल्म करेगा शोषण़ के हथियारों से, हम भी उसको ध्वस्त करेंगे एकताबद्ध कतारों से।’

Today is the 15^th day of our Jan Jagaran Yatra, foot-march against injustice, which started on 15^th January 2014 from Kaithal, Haryana and will reach Delhi’s Jantar Mantar to organize a mass protest demonstration on 31^st January. We have walked over 300 km through villages, towns and cities across Haryana, walking through Jind on 19^th Jan, Rohtak on 22^nd Jan, Jhajjar on 26^th Jan and reached Gurgaon yesterday 28^th Jan to a warm welcome when hundreds of workers of Gurgaon, particularly of the Maruti plants of Gurgaon, Powertrain, Bike and Manesar joining us. Maruti workers and families of arrested workers are walking with us through village after village. We are taking the message of our struggle against exploitation heaped on us organising nukkad sabhas wherever our march is going through.

We organized street corner meetings across the city of Gurgaon yesterday. In the sabha yesterday in CRP chowk, other than MSWU Manesar, hundreds of workers and unions like Honda MSI Employees Union, Maruti Udyog Kamgar Union, Subros Employees Union, RICO Dharuhera employees Union, FCC RICO Employees Union, Hero Employees Union, Sunbeam Workers Union, AITUC, AIUTUC, HMS, CITU and others came, spoke and also contributed financially in solidarity with the struggle. That the struggle of workers of Maruti along with other recent struggles in the industrial belt is indicating a possibility of a new struggling workers unity in the belt was stressed by all the workers. Other than Trade Unions, mass democratic organisations like Jan Sangharsh Manch, Samtamulak Mahila Sangathan, Sarva Karamchari Sangh, Inquilabi Mazdoor Kendra, Krantikari Naujawan Sabha, AIDSO, Sanhati and many others came in support.

 

Today morning, we started from Gurgaon, and organized a protest demonstration in front of the Maruti Suzuki factory in Gurgaon. We were joined by Union officials like Kuldeep Jhangu from MUKU (Maruti Udyog Kamgar Union) who spoke in solidarity, and told us how workers in the Gurgaon plant have also raised our issue as well as common issues of workers in both the plants with the owner of Suzuki group, Mr. O.Suzuki who is India at present. After this, we are marching towards Delhi, crossing the garment workers industrial areas of Kapashera and are reaching JNU in the evening where JNUSU and other student-youth groups have organized cultural programs in our solidarity with the struggle.

 

WE reiterate our demands of release of 148 arrested workers who have been denied bail for the last 18 month, reinstatement of all terminated workers, and an impartial investigation into the incident of 18^th July 2012. In the last three years, our struggle has seen a long road. We have seen the pro-corporate, anti-worker, anti-people faces of the company management, labour and other administrative departments, the police and courts, and if our demands are not met, we shall intensify our struggle in the coming says. On 30^th Jan, we shall march through Delhi, through IIT Gate-AIIMS-INA-Safdarjung Airport- Prithviraj Road-Aurangjeb Road-Janpath-Jantar Mantar. We appeal to all workers, trade unions, student-youth and women’s organisations, and mass and democratic organizations to join us on 31^st in the mass protest demonstration in Jantar Mantar at 11am and spread the struggle.

 

Inquilab Zindabad!

(Ramniwas, Mahabir, Rajpal, Katar, Yogesh)

Provisional Working Committee

Maruti Suzuki Workers Union

Contact: 08901127876, 9560564754, 9466167876, marutiworkerstruggle@gmail.com