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STRIKE AT HONDA IN GURGAON
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BOMBAY TEXTILE MILL STRIKE
BRIEF HISTORY OF MILLS
• Mill-made cotton textiles were India’s first modern industry.
• Bombay was once upon a time called, India’s Manchester.
• India was the second largest producer of textiles globally, and ranked third amongst exporters of textiles.
• Although, the textile industry in India is one of the largest industries, the Bombay textile strike in 1982-83 brought everything to a standstill in the ‘80s. Even now over two decades after the strike, the city is still recuperating from its loss.
• The monthly wage of a Bombay mill operative is 35 rupees for men; 17 rupees for women—for a ten-hour day. This sum is insufficient to maintain their bodily health and strength, or to provide them with the most elementary necessities.
• Before the strike, the textile mill sector faced threat from internal market (as power loom sector claimed a larger share of the market) international market (as Pakistan and China had a larger market share of textile production and India’s export declined)
• The term ‘biggest strike’ is somewhat obscure as criteria of scale and duration are being mixed up. Although, it is not difficult to find examples of strikes lasting longer than the officially acknowledged 18.5 months that the textile strike lasted or involving more people than the roughly 2.5 lakhs textile workers, it will be very hard to find examples matching both these records simultaneously.
FACTS OF THE STRIKE
• It was commenced on 18 Jan 1982
• It was the largest and longest strike in the history of Industrial Conflicts in India
• Strike continued for a year-and-a-half
• About 250,000 workers of 60 mills participated
• Strike against ‘Bombay Mill Owner Association’ with leader ‘Datta Samant’ Demanding wage increase
• The strike challenged the prevailing social dialogue framework in the Bombay textile industry, which had straitjacketed industrial relations in the sector for more than three decades.
• The issues that the strike raised were not only numerous but also extremely complex
DEMANDS OF WORKERS DURING STRIKE….
• The Union representatives confined the discussion to the following demands, on which they would accept no compromise, and on the acceptance of which depended the resumption of work:—
(1) That the policy of victimization which is being pursued should immediately stop.
(2) All workers who are on strike, including the old operatives in the Wadia Group of mills, should be forthwith reinstated.
(3) The Mill Committees should be allowed to function without any impediments being put in their way.
(4) The collection of union funds within the mill premises should not be prohibited.
(5) That the Millowners’ Association should give full recognition to the Girni Kamgar Union.
(6) That the owners should put a stop to their surreptitious efforts to crush the Labour Unions.