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Police Arrests Maruti Workers, Negotiations Fail

Jyotsna Singh, Newsclick, Sept 19, 2011

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Sept 19, 2011: The Haryana police arrested two office bearers and one member of the proposed Maruti Suzuki Employees Union at Gurgaon last night. They have been charged for inciting the workers to physically attack supervisors of the company on Friday.

MSEU President Sonu Gujjar, General Secretary Shiv Kumar and member Ravinder were arrested after the negotiations between the workers' representatives and Maruti Suzuki's management broke.

“Our colleagues were arrested as soon as officials of the Haryana Labour Department, who were mediating the talks, left the building. But we know it cannot happen without their connivance,” said Dharamvir, permanent worker, MSIL, Manesar.

“It is unfortunate that the Additional Commissioner of Police of the area was present in the negotiating room. It is no co-incidence that as soon as the talks failed, workers' representatives were arrested,” said Satbir Singh, Haryana State President, CITU.

The talks failed due to the refusal of the management to accept proposal of the labour department to reinstate the terminated and suspended workers over a period of two to three months. The talks did not reach the point to discuss the “good conduct” bond which is at the center of the current stand off.
 

 
Maruti Management Begins Talks
 
Sept 17, 2011: Workers of three plants of Maruti's operations in Manesar staged two days of strike in support of agitating workers of the assembly plant called the Maruti Suzuki India Limited. The strike, started on Wednesday, ended on Friday after the Maruti management agreed to come to the negotiating table.

Cancun: Moon Palace Trumps Planet Earth

Prabir Purkayastha, December 12th, 2010

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The final declaration hammered out in Cancun in the appropriately termed the Moon Palace, has trumped the urgent needs of planet Earth of cutting greenhouse gas emissions. What has emerged is that developing countries have now agreed to a common instrument for emission commitments while the developed countries – the 37 Annex I countries -- have promised nothing in return.

India Buys More US Weaponry

D. Raghunandan, Newsclick, Jan. 25, 2012

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When India rejected the two US contenders for its prestigious and much awaited $10 billion order for medium multi-role combat aircraft, many in the US raised shrill protests that India was not living up to US expectations and gratefully repaying the US for the Indo-US nuclear deal and for helping India break the international nuclear embargo and related impediments in acquiring other advanced technologies.

Tomgram: Michael Klare, Energy Wars 2012

Michael Klare, Courtesy: TomDispatch.com, Jan. 11, 2012

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Last week, the president made a rare appearance at the Pentagon to unveil a new strategic plan for U.S. military policy (and so spending) over the next decade. Let’s leave the specifics to a future TomDispatch post and focus instead on a historical footnote: Obama was evidently the first president to offer remarks from a podium in the Pentagon press room. He made the point himself -- “I understand this is the first time a president has done this. It’s a pretty nice room. (Laughter)” -- and it was duly noted in the media. Yet no one thought to make anything of it, even though it tells us so much about our American world.

US-Saudi-UAE Arms Deals: Strengthening US Security Net in the Gulf

D. Raghunandan, Newsclick, Jan. 06, 2012

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Records, they say, are meant to be beaten. Those who had characterized India’s acquisition of 126 combat aircraft for around $10 billion, billed as the largest ever single military purchase, as the “mother of all arms deals” will have to change terminology. Last week, the US announced it had clinched a deal with Saudi Arabia for sale of F-15 fighters and upgradation of the current Saudi F-15 fleet for a combined value of about $30 billion. Clearly the grandmother of all deals!