According to a press statement, the management had explicitly said that the permanent workers were not supporting the strike.Ī permanent worker of the Hero Honda Company draws a salary between Rs 30,000 and 40,000 where as a contract labour, performing the same job, gets something between Rs 4,000 and 6,700. A press statement issued by the Hero Honda management on 13 April 2006 had stated the workers’ protests as a “flash strike”, and had clarified that “there is no formal workers union at its Gurgaon plant”. Prior to the strike on 10 April 2006, the workers had met twice, once on 2 April and again on 9 April, when they unanimously decided to launch protests in the plant. But unable to stand discrimination, the casual workers of the company had unanimously decided to protest. There was no union in the Hero Honda unit. “Fifty per cent of the casual workers in the Hero Honda company in Gurgaon have been with the factory for more than 6-7 years,” says Devender Singh, the spokesperson for the casual workers. The workers had been denied regularisation of jobs for the last 7 to 8 years. “We do the same job as regular employees, but we are considered contract workers,” says Sahil Kumar, a contract worker with the factory. “The police prevented us from standing near the gate or raising slogans,” says Sushant, a contract worker from Orissa.Īccording to the protestors, there were about 4,000 of them on contract, engaged in jobs of regular and perennial nature, including direct production activity. Most of the workers had confined themselves to within the factory, demanding the regularisation of jobs while 500 of them were waiting outside, giving moral and physical support to the workers inside. The protesting workers have decided to resume work from 17 April onwards.Īround 4,000 casual workers of the Hero Honda Company in Gurgaon were on strike from 10 April 2006, bringing all the production units to a standstill. According to the management’s assurance, the workers will also get a 30 per cent hike in their wages. On 14 April 2006, the five-day-long, tool-down strike of the casual workers of the Hero Honda company in Gurgaon came to an end, following an assurance given by the management to regularise them in a phased manner.
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