The country’s largest car-maker Maruti Suzuki India today said production at its Manesar plant continues to be completely affected as the ongoing workers strike entered its 12th day.
“The situation is the same as yesterday. There is no production going on,” a company spokesperson told PTI.
The company saw production hit by 10,200 units till yesterday, which translates into a loss of about Rs 510 crore.
In the morning, shares of Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) were trading 0.43 per cent down at Rs 1,217.50 apiece on the Bombay Stock Exchange.
Yesterday evening, the Haryana Labour Department officials held several rounds of separate meetings with the company management and striking workers.
However, a scheduled joint discussion comprising all parties during the late evening did not take place.
“We had a meeting with the Gurgaon Deputy Labour Commissioner in the evening. The Labour Commissioner was supposed to come along with the management, but they held their meeting at a different place. The joint meeting did not happen,” the newly formed Maruti Suzuki Employees Union’s (MSEU) General Secretary, Mr Shiv Kumar, said.
No immediate comment could be obtained from the company on this issue.
Meanwhile, the All-India Trade Union Congress, which is leading the agitation from outside along with other unions such as the Centre of Indian Trade Unions, said the five-member joint committee formed in support of Maruti’s striking workers will meet in the afternoon to decide on its future course of action.
Workers in the Gurgaon-Manesar industrial belt had planned a two-hour tool-down strike yesterday morning in support of Maruti’s workers at the Manesar plant.
However, after beginning the tool-down strike at some factories, workers postponed the symbolic stir by a day following an appeal from the Haryana Chief Minister, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda.
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