Five dismissed Honda workers have been on a hunger strike for that last week in New Delhi to protest against their treatment and for the reinstatement of dismissed workers. They have now been joined by hundreds more workers who are staging demonstrations in support of these hunger strikers in the face of arrests from police. Over 100 plant level union representatives have visited the workers in an ongoing show of solidarity. This widespread support is a reflection of the unsatisfactory conditions that many workers endure in the growing industrial belts of northern India and comes on the back of the huge general strike earlier in the month.
Five dismissed Honda workers have been on a hunger strike for that last week in New Delhi to protest against their treatment and for the reinstatement of dismissed workers. They have now been joined by hundreds more workers who are staging demonstrations in support of these hunger strikers in the face of arrests from police. Over 100 plant level union representatives have visited the workers in an ongoing show of solidarity. This widespread support is a reflection of the unsatisfactory conditions that many workers endure in the growing industrial belts of northern India and comes on the back of the huge general strike earlier in the month.
