Gurgaon factory tense after labour unrest claims life
October 19th, 2009 - 5:52 pm ICT by IANSGurgaon, Oct 19 (IANS) The situation at a Gurgaon-based auto component factory in Haryana continued to be tense Monday, a day after after labour unrest there left one worker dead and at least six injured.
While a case of murder has been registered by Gurgaon police, around 200 striking workers at RICO, an auto-parts manufacturing unit, sat outside the factory gate in protest Monday.
The management, they claimed, was responsible for triggering the violence Sunday evening.
Gurgaon Police Commissioner S.S. Deswal told IANS: “The workers’ strike is illegal and we have given them repeated warnings to leave the place. We have adequate police presence to handle the situation.”
“One factory worker has been killed and nearly six to seven have been injured,” he added.
RICO has been seeing labour unrest for the past one month. While the workers want to form a union, the management is not heeding to their demand saying the workers have had pay hikes and the unit is continuously seeing low productivity.
Late Sunday, a clash broke out in the factory between workers who were on strike and those who wanted to get back to work. The situation soon spun out of control with violence and arson that left a worker dead.
Around 3,500 workers are on strike in the factory.
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