Many fell ill, but refused to come outside and continued the occupation in high spirits.
The workers could not take a bath or wash their clothes. The company management closed most of the toilets and did not allow any outside food, but only one small packet of milk and two bananas twice a day for each of the workers through contractors. The striking contract workers remained inside, occupying the plant. The management ultimately declared temporary shutdown of production from 11 th November. And even then, those cars had faults and needed repairing. The management initially tried to run the production on 5 th November with the help of the permanent workers, but during the course of the day, only around 100 two-wheelers were manufactured. From 5 th November, those retrenched started a sit-in dharna outside the factory gate, and nearly 1000 workers started a sit-in strike inside the plant. Under the pretext of economic slowdown, the Honda management retrenched around 650 contract workers on 4 th November. More than 1500 contract workers of Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India (HMSI) Manesar plant in Haryana have been in a one-month long militant struggle against retrenchment that began from 5 th November 2019. A report by Mazdoor Sahyog Kendra, Gurgaon (Workers Solidarity Centre, Gurgaon), on this struggle of contract workers’.
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