11 जुन 2013 को MSWU के आह्वान पर हजारों लोग शामिल. .
मारुती सुजुकी वर्कर्स यूनियन ने 11 जून 2013 को कैथल में हुए न्याय सम्मलेन और जुलूस से दिखा दिया हैं की हम सरकार-कंपनी की शोषण-दमन से डरने या रुकने वाले नहीं हैं. .
MSWU has again shown in the Justice Convention of 11 June 2013 in Kaithal, that we will will continue with greater strength everytime the state-company thinks they have suppressed our voice. .
Maruti Suzuki Workers Union
Reg. No. 1923
IMT Manesar, Gurgaon
Ref No. K/6/13 Date: 5/6/2013
On 1st June 2013, we rallied through the Kaithal town to the D.C. Office where we had sat on dharna for 57 days from March 24th before we were repressed by the police on 18-19th May 2013 through brutal lathi-charge and water cannons on workers and our parents and relatives. We called for the immediate quashing of fabricated cases against the 11 workers and activists who are in Kaithal Jail, along with the release of 147 arrested workers in Gurgaon Jail and reinstatement of terminated workers. This has proved and we will continue to prove that however much the government has tried to repress our movement, we have come up with renewed strength on the basis of the legitimacy of our struggle and solidarity of our fellow workers and common toiling people. Even on 1st June, when we reached the Mini Secretariat, Kaithal, a huge posse of over 2000 armed policemen swiftly came to threaten and surround us, and again imposed Section 144 from which has become a tool of its pocket. A letter from the D.C. said that we could not be allowed to sit on dharna again keeping ‘peoples’ welfare’ in mind. It is ironic that the administration calls ‘capitalists welfare’ for which it continues to work, the ‘peoples’ welfare’. We however continued our rally and protest demonstration in front of the DC office on 1st June.
Calling capitalists welfare, the peoples welfare is the same perverted logic in addition to ‘threat to public security and machinery’ that the administration has continued to not allow us any space in Manesar or Gurgaon where we wanted to stage protest demonstration, dharna or pamphlet distribution. Our basic democratic rights are continued to be brutally repressed even when our means have been completely peaceful. This is the situation which all workers in the region who continuously work under immense exploitation in the factories face in the hands of the government when they raise their voice.
We have decided to call for a Justice Convention, a Nyay Adhikar Sammelan on 11th June 2013 in Jawahar Park, Kaithal and appeal to all to join us against this combined brutal repression on our movement by the Maruti management and police-administration of Haryana. We will organize campaigns in the towns and villages in the region for this. The government has exposed itself in the face of our tenacity to speak the truth in the face of repression. The workers in Gurgaon-Manesar-Dharuhera industrial region and the common toiling people of Haryana where we have taken jatthas staged dharnas and led campaigns know this anti-people character of the government, which works with toeing the line set by Maruti and other managements of the capitalists. It is with this strength that in the face of all exploitation and repression, we have and will continue with our struggle in gathering strength. We appeal to all to join us on 11th June in solidarity and organize solidarity actions.
Provisional Working Committee
Maruti Suzuki Workers Union
MARUTI SUZUKI WORKERS UNION
Reg. No. 1923
IMT Manesar, Gurgaon
Ref. No. K/5/2013 Date: 28/5/2013
Our spirit of struggle has been further tempered in the hearth of repression. We are resolute to continue our struggle against the Maruti Suzuki management and Haryana government’s collusion with it, even as the Haryana police administration came down with brutal force to break our 57-day long dharna in Kaithal on 18-19th May and put 111 of us behind bars.
When we were being taken to Kaithal Jail and even inside it this week, we sang ragnis and songs of freedom and struggle in the face of this repression. Four of us were kept in solitary confinement to pressurize us, but for two days from 18th May, we staged a hunger strike inside the Kaithal Jail to demand our rights and pledged to renew our struggle. In this spirit, we have decided to hold a protest demonstration and indefinite dharna from 1st June 2013 on, against the repressive actions of 18-19th May, in Kaithal and appeal to all pro-worker and democratic forces to join us in our struggle. We will also go ahead with our demands of release of 147 workers in Gurgaon Jail, the reinstatement of terminated workers and quashing of the case against the 11 workers and activists lodged in Kaithal Jail.
After the arrests of 100 workers and activists and uprooting of our dharna site by the brute force of thousands of Haryana police personnel on the night of 18th May and 19th May morning, we saw our fellow workers, family relatives and supporters and activists who were staging a peaceful democratic protests face brutal lathi-charge, water cannon and tear gas on the evening of 19th May in front of the barricades near the residence of the R.S. Surjewala, the Haryana Industries Minister. Our parents and old women and men, were seriously injured, and 11 workers and activists have been arrested including Provisional Working Committee, MSWU member Ramniwas Kush, the advisor to our union and Gen Sec of Hindustan Motors SSKUnion Deepak Bakshi, local panchayat leader Suresh Koth and Kaithal municipal councilor Premchand under ridiculous charges of attempt to murder and many other non-bailable offences.
From 20th May on, the securities to be shown for bail-bond was set at Rs.40000 each for the 100 workers and activists, which is clearly with the intention of harassing us through all possible means. On 22nd May, the bail application in the Chandigarh High Court for 16 of the 147 workers in jail since 18th July 2012 has been rejected and the case dismissed. We believe all evidence continues to clearly show our innocence and the management’s complicity in the incident of 18th July 2012, and its malicious intent to punish us for raising our voice for our fundamental right of freedom of association to form a Union and against the contract worker system. We are thus being subjected to repression not only in the form of police baton charges, but also through the corrupt channels of injustice. The same government which declares us criminals without any investigation, baton charges and arrests us to crush our questions on its jobless growth model, spends Rs.1.43 crores on the special public prosecutor in just 8 months as a RTI has shown.
Against all this combined repression by the government administration police and the legal system which refuses to give us justice, we are resolved to struggle. Our friends and comrades and toiling masses throughout the country have lend us support, as the protest demonstrations have showed. Yesterday 27th May 2013, the joint trade unions of Gurgaon-Manesar-Bawal showed their solidarity by protesting in front of the Gurgaon DC office against the police repression on our struggle on 18-19th May in Kaithal and submitted a memorandum to the Chief Minister, Haryana. This includes factory unions like Maruti Gurgaon MUKU, Suzuki Powertrain, Suzuki Bike, Honda, Hero Motorcorp, Rico Dharuhera, FCC Rico Manesar, Munjal Showa, Omax Auto, Satyam Auto, Endurance, Lumax Auto, Napino Manesar Union as well as central trade Unions like HMS, AITUC, CITU, AIUTUC, and others. Similar demonstrations are been organized daily in solidarity in Delhi on 19th and 20th May by various organizations in front of Haryana Bhavan and Jantar Mantarand in front of the CM Haryana house, in Kolkata on 27th May where all struggling trade unions organized a joint rally of over 1500 people in front of Maruti regional office, in Patna, in Punjab and across the country in various places.
We appeal to all workers, trade unions, pro-worker and democratic forces and individuals to continue to show solidarity by joining us on 1st June 2013 in Kaithal, Haryana in the protest demonstration and dharna by MSWU and stage solidarity actions in the coming days as we intensify our movement.
Inquilab Zindabad! Mazdoor Ekta Zindabad!
Provisional Working Committee
Maruti Suzuki Workers Union
MARUTI SUZUKI WORKERS UNION
Reg. No. 1923
IMT Manesar
PRESS RELEASE: 20th May 2013
We are facing one of the most brutal repression by the government on our movement. While we have adopted the democratic and peaceful means available to demand the release of arrested 147 workers, withdrawal of non-bailable arrest warrants from 66 workers and reinstatement of terminated 546 permanent and 1800 contract workers, the government has only responded with force and malice and in collusion with the Maruti Suzuki company management.
Our peaceful dharna has been going on since 24th March, which included hunger strike, deputations, rallies, which are all in the ambit of our democratic right guaranteed in the Constitution. This was forcibly broken on 18th May by the huge police force of thousands of personnel in riot gear, tear gas etc. They came in before curfew under Sec.144 was declared on the entire town of Kaithal at 5pm with effect till midnight of 19th May to prevent our call for a protest demonstration on 19th May in front of the residence of Haryana Industries and Commerce Minister, Randip Singh Surjewala. Thousands of people from across Haryana and other pro-worker people from across the country were to come to express solidarity.
At 11.30pm on 18th May those on the site of the dharna, 96 workers and activists were arrested and sent to Kaithal Jail under Sections 188, 341, 506, 511. This includes a member of the Provisional Working Committee, MSWU, Yogesh Gawande, and two Trade Union activists who have been coming in support, Shyamveer who is a correspondent of the workers newspaper, Nagrik and an activist with Inqlabi Mazdoor Kendra, and Amit and who is a workers’ movement activist and current Phd student in Economics dept, CESP, JNU, New Delhi. On the morning of 19th May, 4 more workers were arrested from their homes in the villages nearby.
On 19th May 2013, we decided to go ahead with our pre-declared program, and around 1500 people started coming in solidarity from across Haryana in the morning. These included primarily workers and our family members and relatives, and people from village Panchayats, democratic and mass organizations and individuals. A huge police force and CID Haryana personnel were all over the Bus Station, Railway Station and all points in the town to follow and stop anyone who was coming for support. We gathered near Pyoda village 2km from the city limits, and started to peacefully march to register our protest, that all those arrested on 18th May night be released immediately so that talks can happen. Barricades and a huge police contingent of over 2000 personnel with water cannons and tear gas vehicles, stopped us on the road next to Surjewala’s residence.
At 6.30pm, without any warning, the stationed police force started a brutal lathi-charge and tear gas and water cannons were unleashed mercilessly on the protestors, which included in large majority, women, children and old men. Hundreds were seriously injured and admitted to the hospital. The police came with a second round of lathi-charge when people were still in a state of shock. The government has acted with malicious intention, and with a view to crush the struggle while all wanted to do was register our peaceful protest in front of our elected representatives, and yesterday’s actions and arrests shows this.
Eleven workers and activists were arrested on completely fabricated charges of serious nature. These are:
- Ramniwas of Provisional Working Committee, Maruti Suzuki Workers Union
- Deepak Bakshi who is advisor to the MSWU and General Secretary of Hindustan Motors-Sangrami Shramik Karamchari Union, Kolkata
- Somnath who is a correspondent of the workers newspaper, Shramik Shakti
- Suresh Koth, who is panchayat leader from Koth village, Hissar dist, Haryana
- Nitish
- Mangtu
- Premchand
- and three more people, whose names are still unclear.
They have been charged under non-bailable Sections 148, 149, 188, 283, 332, 353, 186, 341, 307 (attempt to murder) of the IPC, 3 of P/D, TPDA, 8NH for blocking the highway and 25 (54 and 59) of the Arms Act. They have been produced in the Kaithal Court today 20th May 2013 and sent to 14days of Judicial Custody. So 111 more workers and activists, who have continued with the movement even after repression since 18 July 2012 have now been arrested, taking the total of arrested workers and activists to 258, along with 66 non-bailable arrest warrants.
This is a serious pre-meditated assault on especially those of the active workers and activists who have stood in solidarity with us and to show us again as criminals only because we continue to protest against the wrongs that have been done to us for the last two years since 4th June 2011, and especially since 18th July 2012 when it became apparent that the government is openly siding with the company against workers and activists. This is the reward the government has again given us workers for asking for our rights, for demanding the right to organize and Unionize and for demanding the abolition of the contract workers system, and hence asking questions on its model of development.
We appeal to all workers, trade unions and workers organizations, democratic rights and civil rights organizations and mass organizations and democratic minded individuals and to come out in protest in this hour when we need all forms of solidarity. We reiterate our just demands of releasing all the arrested workers and activists and reinstatement of terminated workers.
Provisional Working Committee
Maruti Suzuki Workers Union
Sarkar humse darti hain, Police ko aage karti hain; Join in Solidarity with us in Kaithal today
The Haryana government in brazen act of collusion with Maruti management has let loose repression on us workers when we are demanding our legitimate rights. Around 150 of our fellow workers have been taken into custody at 11.30pm last night in Kaithal police station to prevent our call for Dharna and Gherao scheduled for today 19 May 2013. The number of those arrested has gone up since last night, as police continue to pick up workers and supporters from our homes, villages and streets.
A state of curfew with Sec 144 clamped down on the entire town of Kaithal is on. As workers and supporters from across Haryana and other places are pouring in from the morning, CID and thousands of police are stationed in the Bus Station, Railway station and in the entire town and nearby villages and trying to stop their entry with barricades and tear gas, water cannons.
We have decided to go ahead with the program. Thousands of people who are coming in solidarity will go ahead with the protest, and will sit on the road wherever they are stopped. We will try to march to the Industries Minister’s residence with our demands. We appeal to all to join our protest and organize solidarity actions against the Haryana government and Maruti management.
Inquilab Zindabad!
Provisional Working Committee
Maruti Suzuki Workers Union
Police Arrests Workers tonight to prevent 19th May dharna. .Onwards to the protest demonstration and Gherao tomorrow!
Around 120-50 Maruti Suzuki workers present in the dharna site in Kaithal tonight, have been picked up by the Haryana Police around 11.30 pm tonight. We were preparing for the demonstration call for tomorrow, 19th May 2013 in Kaithal, where thousands of people from across Haryana are to come in solidarity. This is after the declaration of the Mahapanchayat organized by MSWU on 8th 2013 May where over 2000 people of ghearo of the Industries minsiter’s residence in Kaithal, if the government continues to be act in collusion with the Maruti Suzuki company to crush our strugggle.
Section 144 has been clamped on the entire town of Kaithal, the dist HQ of Kaithal dist, Haryana from 5pm today till 12o’clock midnight tomorrow. Around 1500 additional police force with tear gas etc. have already been stationed here.
The funds to 84 sarpanch of village panchayat was declared by the district adminsitartion , Kaithal to be stopped. The village panchayats and local pro-worker struggle leaders have been receiving personal threat calls from the Industrial Minister, Haryana against joining our struggle.
We call upon all to come in solidarity. The program tomorrow will go ahead as scheduled from 11am, as people from across the State have already started coming to the dharna site.
PROVISIONAL WORKING COMMITTEE
MARUTI SUZUKI WORKERS UNION
Join GHERAO of Industries Ministers residence on 19th May! Coercion and repression by State Administration murdabad!
MARUTI SUZUKI WORKERS UNION
Reg. no. 1923
IMT Manesar
Ref. No. … Date: 18 May 2013
We appeal to all workers, workers and peasant organisations, trade unions and democratic forces and individuals to JOIN us in Kaithal at 11am on 19th May 2013, on our call to GHERAO of the residence of Industries Minister, Haryana, Randip Singh Surjewala.
On 8th May, the Mahapanchayat in Kaithal, which saw solidarity participation of more than 2000 people from across the state and country, gave a memorandum and an ultimatum to the Government of Haryana of 10 days from that date to heed to the demands of our struggle. 19th May will be the 57th day of the continuing dharna from 24 March 2013, throughout which we have only peacefully exercised our democratic right to protest (we were not allowed to even do a dharna in Gurgaon or Manesar). This included an 8-day fast-unto-death which we halted temporarily only after the assurance of the Chief Minister, Bhupiner Hooda that the government will favourably look into the demands and negotiation with the company restarted.
But the government has exposed itself by again paying scant regard to any of our demands. It has instead stepped up coercion on those who have come in our solidarity. The grants to 84 Village Panchayat sarpanch from across Haryana who came out in solidarity on 8th May in Kaithal have been stopped and they have been blacklisted for support to ‘anti-government activities’. Besides this, in an effort to stop our call for demonstration tomorrow, Section 144 has been slapped from 5pm on 18th May to continue till night 12 o’clock on 19th May, and hundreds of police in battle-gear and tear-gas have been posted threateningly next to the site of the dharna.
The government and its state administration has become pro-active to this degree to crush our struggle even after 10 months, when we fight for our legitimate demands of release of the jailed 147 workers, stop to police persecution and reinstatement of the terminated 546 permanent and 1800 contract workers. What it fears is the uncomfortable questions we have put before it, from our experience, that the scenario of decent employment is bleak and that the present model of development is essentially anti-worker and anti-people. Even as the government is supposed to represent our interests, what is fears is the unity of permanent and contract workers, the unity of common toiling people who have seen through its naked collusion with exploitative companies at the cost of our livelihood and dignity. And so throughout the phase of our struggle against the exploitation by the Maruti Suzuki company, we have continuously at all instances found the state administration and our elected representatives to bend over backwards to please the company management, and do all it could to repress our voices for justice.
JOIN us on 19th May 2013 at Kaithal to raise our voice against the exploitation by the Maruti Suzuki company and the open support that the Government of Haryana lends it, and demand immediate release of all 147 jailed workers, withdrawal of false non-bailable arrest warrants against 66 workers and all other fabricated cases, reinstatement of 546 permanent and 1800 contract workers, independent impartial enquiry into the incident of 18th July 2012.
Revolutionary Greetings
Provisional Working Committee
MARUTI SUZUKI WORKERS UNION
