A Protracted Struggle: Strikes in the Automobile Sector in India

Nowak, Jörg

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Jörg Nowak⁶

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Abstract

The labour unrest at Maruti Suzuki and Bajaj Auto came with forms of organisation: a broad network of actors and places in the first, and a more traditional regional union federation in the second case.

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Notes

1.
Interview with Ajit Abhyankar, District President of CITU (Centre of Indian Trade Unions), 27 December 2013, Pune.
2.
See Amita Singh (2012) on the development of Gurgaon and the shrinking space for local self-government in its wake.
3.
Interview with D.L. Sachdev, Secretary of AITUC (All India Trade Union Congress), 23 October 2013, New Delhi.
4.
Interview with Maruti Worker 3, 6 December 2013, Gurgaon.
5.
Interview with Maruti Worker 9, 26 January 2014, Dadri Toi.
6.
Interview with Maruti Worker 7, 25 January 2014, Dadri Toi.
7.
Interview with Maruti Worker 8, 25 January 2014, Dadri Toi.
8.
Interview with Maruti Worker 8.
9.
Interview with Maruti Worker 3.
10.
Interview with Maruti Worker 5, 6 December 2013, Gurgaon.
11.
Interview with Maruti Worker 3.
12.
Interview with Activist 1, 8 February 2018, over telephone.
13.
Interview with Activist 1.
14.
Interview with Maruti Worker 2, 5 December 2013, Gurgaon.
15.
Interview with Maruti Worker 9.
16.
Interview with Maruti Worker 2.
17.
Interview with Maruti Worker 2.
18.
Interview with Maruti Worker 2.
19.
Interview with Activist 1.
20.
Interview with D.L. Sachdev.
21.
Interview with Maruti Worker 3.
22.
Interview with Activist 1.
23.
Interview with D.L. Sachdev.
24.
Interview with D.L. Sachdev.
25.
Interview with Maruti Worker 3.
26.
Interview with Maruti Worker 3.
27.
Interview with D.L. Sachdev.
28.
Interview with Maruti Worker 2.
29.
Interview with Maruti Worker 10, 26 January 2014, Dadri Toi.
30.
Interview with Activist 1.
31.
Interview with Gautam Mody, General Secretary of NTUI (New Trade Union Initiative), 27 January 2014, New Delhi.
32.
Interview with Sudhersan Rao Sarde, Regional Secretary of IndustriALL for the South Asia Region, 9 December 2013, New Delhi.
33.
Interview with Sudhersan Rao Sarde.
34.
Interview with Gautam Mody.
35.
Interview with Gautam Mody.
36.
Interview with Maruti Worker 3; Maruti Worker 7; Maruti Worker 10.
37.
Interview with Shyambir Shukla, Inqulabi Mazdoor Kendra (Revolutionary Workers’ Center), 25 October 2013, New Delhi.
38.
Interview with Maruti Worker 1, 27 October 2013, Manesar.
39.
Interview with Manav Kamble, President of Maharashtra Labour Union, 6 January 2014, Pimpri-Chinchwad.
40.
Interview with labour lawyer 1, 24 December 2013, Pimpri-Chinchwad; Interview with Manav Kamble.
41.
Interview with Dilip Pawar, President of VKKS (Vishwa Kalyan Kamgar Sangathan), 5 October 2013, Pimpri-Chinchwad.
42.
Interview with Dilip Pawar.
43.
Interview with Dilip Pawar.
44.
Unions in Maharashtra can file for a registration under the MRTU Act six months after their formation. This will be decided by a court and usually does not take more than a few months. The management is then legally bound to negotiate with the union that is registered for this workplace; interview with Assistant at labour NGO, 22 December 2014, Pimpri-Chinchwad.
45.
Interview with Bajaj Worker D, 9 January 2014, Pimpri-Chinchwad.
46.
Interview with Bajaj Worker D; Interview with Dilip Pawar.
47.
Interview with Dilip Pawar; interview with Arvind Shrouti, Option Positive, 15 November 2013, Pimpri-Chinchwad; interview with Bajaj Worker G, 22 January 2014, Pimpri-Chinchwad.
48.
Interview with Bajaj Worker C, 9 January 2014, Pimpri-Chinchwad.
49.
Interview with Bajaj Worker G.
50.
Interview with Bajaj Worker F, 10 January 2014, Pimpri-Chinchwad.
51.
Interview with Bajaj Worker C.
52.
Dilip Pawar is the president of trade union VKKS, of workers at Bajaj in Chakan.
53.
Interview with Dilip Pawar.
54.
Interview with Dilip Pawar; interview with Bajaj Worker A, 8 January 2014, Pimpri-Chinchwad; interview with Bajaj Worker G.
55.
Interview with Bajaj Worker D.
56.
Interview with Volkswagen Worker 1, 28 December 2013, Pimpri-Chinchwad; interview with Volkswagen Worker 2, 2 January 2014, Pimpri-Chinchwad.
57.
Interview with Mahindra Worker 1, 28 December 2013, Chakan; interview with Mahindra Worker 2, 28 December 2013, Chakan; interview with Mahindra Worker 3, 2 January 2014, Pimpri-Chinchwad.
58.
Interview with Heman Bhoir, President of General Motors Employees Union Talegaon, 8 January 2014, Pimpri-Chinchwad.
59.
Interview with Dilip Pawar.
60.
Interview with Dilip Pawar; interview with Bajaj worker B, 9 January 2014, Pimpri-Chinchwad.
61.
Interview with Dilip Pawar; similar statements have been made by Bajaj Worker B, and Bajaj Worker F.
62.
Interview with Dilip Pawar.
63.
Interview with labour lawyer 1.
64.
Interview with Bajaj Worker H, 3 January 2014, Pimpri-Chinchwad.
65.
Interview with Bajaj Worker G.
66.
Interview with Dilip Pawar.
67.
Interview with Mahindra Worker 1; interview with Heman Bhoir.
68.
Interview with Dilip Pawar.
69.
Interview with Dilip Pawar.
70.
Interview with Bajaj worker F.
71.
Interview with Dilip Pawar.
72.
Interview with Bajaj Worker F.
73.
Interview with Bajaj Worker F.
74.
Interview with Bajaj Worker F.
75.
Interview with Dilip Pawar; interview with Bajaj Worker A.
76.
Interview with Dilip Pawar.
77.
Interview with Assistant 1; interview with Bajaj Worker I.
78.
Interview with Dilip Pawar.
79.
Interview with Dilip Pawar; interview with Bajaj Worker I; interview with Bajaj Worker C.
80.
Interview Bajaj Worker C.
81.
Interview with Assistant 1.
82.
Interview with Bajaj Worker A; interview with Bajaj Worker D.
83.
Interview with Bajaj Worker B.
84.
Interview with Bajaj Worker B; interview with Bajaj Worker C.
85.
Interview with Bajaj Worker C.
86.
Interview with Bajaj Worker F; interview with Manav Kamble.
87.
Interview with Bajaj Worker D.
88.
Interview with Bajaj Worker A; interview with Bajaj Worker F.
89.
Interview with Bajaj Worker F; interview with Bajaj Worker G.
90.
Interview with Bajaj Worker F.
91.
Interview with Neeraj Jain, Lokayat, 23 January 2014, Pune.
92.
Interview with Neeraj Jain.
93.
Interview with Neeraj Jain.
94.
Workers at LIC earned about two to three times more than the permanent workers at Bajaj, between 40,000 and 60,000 rupees.
95.
Interview with Neeraj Jain.
96.
Interview with Assistant 1.
97.
Interview with Dilip Pawar.
98.
Interview with Assistant 1.
99.
Industrial Training Institutes (ITI) are state-run engineering schools which automobile workers have to attend in order to get hired as production workers.
100.
Interview with Assistant 1.
101.
Interview with Assistant 1.
102.
Interview with Assistant 1.
103.
Interview with Assistant 1.
104.
Interview with Assistant 1.
105.
Interview with Arvind Shrouti.
106.
Interview with Arvind Shrouti.
107.
VKKS: https://www.facebook.com/Vishwa-Kalyan-Kamgar-sangthana-Bajaj-Auto-197156133771148/; SEM: https://www.facebook.com/Shramik-Ekta-Mahasangh-239327459523499/
108.
Interview with Ajit Abhyankar.

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Nowak, J. (2019). A Protracted Struggle: Strikes in the Automobile Sector in India. In: Mass Strikes and Social Movements in Brazil and India. Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05375-8_4

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