The ongoing strike at Maruti Suzuki's Manesar plant entered its sixth day today, with no production taking place at the unit, as workers continue to demand that the management take back all suspended and casual employees.
"The plant is still captive in the hands of striking workers. There is no production today also at the Manesar plant," a company spokesperson said.
The company has been hit hard, not only by strike of its own workers, but also due to the supply shortage of engines and transmissions from SPIL.
MSI's production is now heading toward a complete halt, with its main unit in Gurgaon rolling out 64 per cent less cars on Tuesday than the normal daily output of 2,800 units due to parts supply constraints caused by the strike at SPIL.
On October 10, the Haryana Labour Department slapped a notice on workers for "breach of settlement" in connection to the agreement that was signed on October 1 to end the 33-day-long impasse and asked them to respond within the next 48 hours.
On the other hand, all big national trade unions cutting across party lines -- AITUC, CITU, HMS, INTUC, BMS, AIUTUC, TUCC, AICCTU and UTUC -- lashed out at the company management, accusing it of "high-handed provocative activities" and said not allowing casual workers to join duty is "an absolute act of vengeance".
The series of strikes at the Manesar plant since June this year has resulted in excise revenue losses to the tune of nearly Rs 350 crore (Rs 3.5 billion) for the government, while the company has already suffered a hit of up to Rs 1,540 crore (Rs 15.4 billion), with a total production loss of 51,375
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