{"id":300003,"date":"2017-03-21T16:53:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T15:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/support-grows-for-framed-up-maruti-suzuki-workers-in-india\/"},"modified":"2017-03-21T16:53:08","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T15:53:08","slug":"support-grows-for-framed-up-maruti-suzuki-workers-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/support-grows-for-framed-up-maruti-suzuki-workers-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Support grows for framed-up Maruti Suzuki workers in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Support grows for framed-up Maruti Suzuki workers in India<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Jerry White<br \/>\n    <br \/>21 March 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Popular anger is growing in the Manesar-Gurgaon industrial belt on the outskirts of Delhi, India\u2019s capital city, after a court meted out life sentences to 13 workers who were framed up on murder charges after a July 2012 labor confrontation at the country\u2019s largest car assembly plant.<\/p>\n<p>Just hours after the sentences were read out in Gurgaon District Court, 30,000 workers at Maruti Suzuki plants and supplier factories in and around Manesar carried out a one-hour \u201ctool down strike, \u201d despite management threats of an eight-day pay cut. The action halted production at the Maruti Suzuki assembly plant in Manesar, scene of the July 2012 confrontation, a second assembly plant in Gurgaon, Maruti Suzuki Powertrain, Suzuki Motorcycle India and two auto parts companies.<\/p>\n<p>The six area unions that called Saturday\u2019s strike have announced a March 23 protest rally in Manesar, in defiance of a ban on all gatherings of 5 or more people that authorities have imposed in Gurgaon until March 25, precisely because they fear mass worker opposition to the frame-up of the Maruti Suzuki workers.<\/p>\n<p>The Maruti Suzuki Workers Union (MSWU), formed by the Manesar plant workers in a rebellion against a company stooge union, also reports that plans are being made for an April 4 national day of protest.<\/p>\n<p>MSWU President Ram Meher and the union\u2019s eleven other executive members are among the 13 condemned to life imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>Advocate Rajendra Pathak, a defense attorney for some of the framed-up workers, denounced the sentences, telling a <em>World Socialist Web Site<\/em> reporter, \u201cThe judiciary is comprised of the people who have the mindset of the capitalists. The rich have all the means with them in this capitalist&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/03\/21\/maru-m21.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Support grows for framed-up Maruti Suzuki workers in India By Jerry White 21 March 2017 Popular anger is growing in the Manesar-Gurgaon industrial belt on the outskirts of Delhi, India\u2019s capital city, after a court meted out life sentences to 13 workers who were framed up on murder charges after a July 2012 labor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-300003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}