![]() ![]() There was some attempt at damage control: Sonia condemned the police action at a meeting of the CPP, Hooda announced the suspension of the SP and the DC and Commerce Minister Kamal Nath went into overdrive, assuaging investors' fears. Want industrial disputes to be resolved only through discussions across the table without the interference of outsiders. Want the Left to realise that 8 per cent GDP growth is unachievable with labour unrest and breakdown of law and order. ![]() Want foreign companies to recognise local labour culture and let locals manage industrial relations. Will pressurise Government to legislate the Unorganised Sector Workers' Bill which has been lying in cold storage for past few months.ĭo not want internal company matters and labour issues to be politicised. Left parties have proposed more safeguards in existing labour laws. The unions have asked members to mobilise MNC workers to establish unions in private companies. CPI(M) Politburo member Brinda Karat and her colleague from the party's Central Committee Nilotpal Basu took to the streets protesting against the police atrocities on the demonstrators.Įight central trade unions have called a nationwide protest day on August 1. Gurudas Dasgupta, CPI leader in the Lok Sabha and president of the All-India Trade Union Congress (AITUC), fumed in Parliament, displaying a blood-stained towel and calling the Government a stooge of MNCs. The next morning, Japanese envoy Yasukuni Enoki announced "concern" that the incident could affect FDI in India. ![]() On the other hand was Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's unprecedented intervention in what was essentially a company's internal matter. On the one hand was Sonia Gandhi's anger at Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda's cavalier handling of the issue, which led to his about-turn on a judicial inquiry. In one fell swoop, even as workers lay bleeding and injured, at the receiving end of Meham like police brutality, the Congress leadership at the Centre was reduced to a quivering mess. Politics and economics have never been the best of friends, but a prime-time lathi charge on workers of the Honda Scooter and Motorcycle India (HSMI) in Gurgaon on July 25 changed all that.Īs much as the Left got an opportunity to highlight the perils of liberalisation, it also managed to rattle the UPA Government. ![]()
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