Maruti Suzuki Locks Out Workers At Mobbed Factory
Maruti Suzuki locked out the entire workforce of its Manesar factory until authorities finished their investigation of the deadly riots earlier this week. Suzuki said reopening the plant would risk lives of its employees until the workers guilty of instigating a mob are identified.
“We can’t further risk the lives of our employees and workers,” R.C. Bhargava, chairman of Maruti Suzuki told The Nikkei [sub]. “What is more important is safety of my colleagues than producing some cars to make some money.We are not in a position to start production until investigations into these shocking events are completed and corrective steps are taken.”
This decision does not come lightly. The factory makes Suzuki Maruti’s best-selling diesel cars–the Swift hatchback and the Swift Dzire sedan. Diesel cars are in high demand in India because of the significantly lower price of diesel fuel in India.
Bertel Schmitt comes back to journalism after taking a 35 year break in advertising and marketing. He ran and owned advertising agencies in Duesseldorf, Germany, and New York City. Volkswagen A.G. was Bertel's most important corporate account. Schmitt's advertising and marketing career touched many corners of the industry with a special focus on automotive products and services. Since 2004, he lives in Japan and China with his wife <a href="http://www.tomokoandbertel.com"> Tomoko </a>. Bertel Schmitt is a founding board member of the <a href="http://www.offshoresuperseries.com"> Offshore Super Series </a>, an American offshore powerboat racing organization. He is co-owner of the racing team Typhoon.
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Perhaps, they find some time to do some rework on their management attitudes now?
GM, Mitsubishi ,Toyta and Ford are lucky the average Auastralian is too slow to get out of bedd in the morning and do the same, after the aforementioned stole billions in tax payers money from a stupidly led Labor government under Julia Gillard ...and then laid off hundreds of workers in contravention of any aggreements. Good on the Indians,show the buggers that the car buying public is not prepared to be robbed by them in the same fashion as wall street bankers.