Depriving contractual workers of their right to be members of trade unions is at the heart of the labour struggle at Bellsonica Auto Component India Pvt. Ltd., a tier-I supplier to Maruti Suzuki, in Manesar here, observed the People’s Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) in its fact-finding report. The PUDR’s report is on the workers’ ongoing relay hunger strike at the company.
Stating an increase in contractual workers at the company, the report, “A Long Battle for Justice”, said, excluding them from trade unions amounted to exclusion of a majority of workers from the protection of labour laws and the right to collective bargaining.
