Clouds over auto hub as Hero wage talks flounder
feBureau: New Delhi, Feb 23 2013, 02:02 IST
slowdown at the factory causing an estimated loss of around Rs 8 crore over two days. Workers had also held a “silent protest” for several weeks starting January 4 by boycotting company-provided snacks.
Last week, trade unions such as CITU, AITUC and INTUC, apart from workers’ unions from Maruti Suzuki and Honda, had also held a meeting with HMCWU outside Hero’s Gurgaon plant in a show of collective strength. At the meeting, the option of a strike had been discussed, but only as a last option after other means of had been exhausted.
Sputtering out
* Workers to boycott work at Gurgaon plant on Sunday. Warn of ‘serious action’ like partial strike from Monday
* The Gurgaon plant makes about 8,000 scooters and motorcycles a day across three assembly lines
* Continuous labour trouble may see the auto industry moving out of the Gurgaon-Manesar belt, feel analysts
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