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Honda workers get back to work Statesman News Service
NEW DELHI, Aug 1. — The workers of Honda Motorcycles and Scooters India Limited factory joined duty today, bringing to an end the month-long labour problem which had climaxed in violence last week.
The first batch of workers resumed work this morning at 6 a.m. after signing an undertaking which said they “shall abide by good conduct, discipline, devotion to duty, meet company targets, completely observe the certified standing orders applicable to the establishment and refrain from sabotage activities etc.” It is not clear how many workers rejoined duty.
A notice pasted at the factory gates read that all workers who were to report for duty on their particular shifts on 27 June were to come for the same shifts on 1 August. Some injured workers have also reached the Honda factory to carry out certain formalities for payment for their treatment.
The injured workers have been promised paid leave by the company as per the agreement reached between them. They signed an undertaking and went to hospital after taking a half-day leave.
Security arrangements were in place to prevent any untoward incident and around 30-40 policemen were posted outside the factory. More than 40 personnel from a private security agency were in-charge of security inside the factory.
“This is the normal security drill at the factory. We are not expecting any untoward incident. It is business as usual because we have reached an amicable agreement,” a Honda official said.
Meanwhile, a bandh called by trade unions evoked little response in Gurgaon and Manesar. Shops were open and traffic was as usual on the roads. Police were deployed in large numbers in view of the bandh.
In an unrelated development, Haryana chief minister Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda has accused the media of “exaggerating” the recent incidents of violence in Gurgaon and announced that all “false cases” registered against journalists by the previous INLD government would be withdrawn.
Mr Hooda, regretting that the Gurgaon rioting was “exaggerated” by many TV channels, urged journalists to investigate the reasons leading to the violence so that such incidents do not recur again at the 26th annual session of Haryana Union of journalists at Bhiwani yesterday, adds PTI.
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