The Communist Party of India (Marxist) Condemns Attack on Workers
The brutal assault by the police on the workers of the Honda Motors and Scooters in Gurgaon has shocked the country. In a systematic and premeditated fashion the police launched a savage attack on workers protesting against the illegal actions of the Honda company. Hundreds of workers have been injured, many with serious head injuries in this attack shown on television screens. This is an outrageous example of the police acting as agents of the multinational company. The district administration's complicity in suppressing the rights of the workers is also well established.
Workers in factories in Gurgaon are not allowed to form trade unions and efforts are made by the big companies to suppress all trade union activities. The Honda factory is an illustration of how workers rights are suppressed.
The Chief Minister showed his callousness to this atrocity by ordering a magisterial enquiry by a civil servant. The first step to be taken is the suspension of the Deputy Commissioner, the SSP and all the police officials involved in this attack. None of the district administration officials should be in position when the judicial enquiry is conducted. The state government has to ensure the best medical treatment and provide compensation for all the workers injured in the attack.
The Honda management must be prosecuted for declaring an illegal lockout and the workers must be reinstated without any conditions. The central government must ensure that all the multinational corporations in the National Capital Region conform to labour laws strictly.
To protest against this brutality, to demand action against those guilty and to ensure justice for the Honda workers, the CPI(M) calls upon its units and the democratic forces to hold protest actions throughout the country.
From Solidarity Network
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WFTU Expresses Solidarity With Struggle of Honda Workers
The WFTU expresses its grave concern at the reports about the gross violations of trade union rights by the Japanese Company Honda Motorcycle and Scooters (HMSI) Limited at its factory in India.
A large number of trade union leaders in the Honda factory were subjected to victimization for just having formed a trade union in this enterprise a few months ago. The Management of Honda suspended the union leaders, terminated the services of so-called "temporary workers" and stopped all employees from entering the factory.
This union is affiliated to the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC), a member organization of the WFTU.
The company management also engaged anti-social forces to beat up the union leaders. The Management has been demanding individual undertakings from the workers kept outside, in order to allow them inside and that too in batches.
As against this the workers went in a massive procession on 25 July 2005 which was attacked by the Police brutally, and about 750 workers have been injured. Hundreds of workers were arrested. In the Parliament of India the issue was raised, demanding a judicial inquiry and the settlement of demands of Honda workers.
The WFTU strongly protests against the repression and appeals to trade unions in all countries to act in solidarity with the struggle of the Honda workers and demand that the Japanese Honda Management in India to reinstate all dismissed workers and reach an immediate settlement on Honda factory workers' demands.
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