HMSI Faces 20% Loss in Production at Tapukara Plant due to Strike

Honda Motorcycles and Scooter India Ltd has confirmed that it is facing 20 percent loss in the production due to strike in Tapukara plant at Alwar in Rajasthan. A section of workers is on strike from the last 10 days asking the company to recognise their union. 

The plant has the capacity to produce 3,000 units a day. “Currently, around 30 percent of the total workers are yet to join back,” the company said in its statement on Friday. The workers at the plant demanding some of their sacked colleagues to be reinstated. They also tried to do a rally for the release of their colleague who was arrested 2 days back, but the district administration did not allow them to do so. 

The Alwar Police Superintendent, Kailash Vishnoi told that they did not have any permission to hold the rally while the general secretary of the unrecognised HMSI union, Surender Kumar said, 44 workers have been arrested and we want the release of the people. 

On the other hand, HMSI said in a statement, “Production is daily increasing as more workers are resuming duties and damaged machinery is getting repaired. We have put up an appeal for the people who are innocent but fearful of a backlash from the radicals to shed their fear and resume their duties.”

Similarly, around 300 workers at Tata Nano plant at Sanand in Gujarat are on strike from the past 4 days. The workers at Tata plant launched the strike for the reinstatement of 28 employees who were suspended as a result of a disciplinary action. On Friday 26th February, Tata Motors appealed its workers to join the plant immediately and “not to be misled by people with vested interests.”