Toyota Kirloskar Motors partially resumes operations at Bidadi plant in Karnataka Operating at the prescribed workforce strength of 50%, TKM is also training its employees for the “new normal”, both in terms of facilities and processes
Toyota Kirloskar Motors (TKM) has partially resumed operations at its plant at Bidadi in Karnataka on Tuesday. Operating at the prescribed workforce strength of 50 per cent, TKM is also training its employees for the “new normal”, both in terms of facilities and processes.
“Since the outbreak of the pandemic, we are very clear that we will respond to the needs of those in the midst of this outbreak, making prompt decisions and taking immediate action to help ensure safety and security of all our employees and other stakeholders,” said a company spokesperson.
In opposition to the herd immunity policies of the ruling elite, workers are demanding that industries follow scientifically-guided lockdown restrictions.
130,000 public transport workers strike in Indian state of Karnataka in defiance of draconian government threats
The right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state government in the southern Indian state of Karnataka is mounting an all-out offensive to suppress a major strike by some 130,000 public road transport workers. The government has so far arrested over 130 workers, fired hundreds and suspended thousands more.
Led by Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa, the government is also cynically using the ongoing COVID-19 crisis to pressure the employees to return to work, citing the “inconvenience” the strike is causing to the local population, which depends upon public transport for daily travel.
India: Union betrays more than 3-month-long strike by Toyota workers in Bangalore
Despite the enormous militancy and courage shown by over 3,000 striking workers attached to two Toyota Kirloskar Motors (TKM) plants near Bengaluru, the capital of the southern Indian state of Karnataka, the more than three-month-long strike against speed-ups and witch-hunts against militant workers by management has ended in defeat. The company successfully engineered a split in the leadership of the TKM Employees Union (TKMEU) to conclude the sell-out earlier this month.
Toyota workers and Karnataka farmers stage joint procession in Bengaluru
After the company persuaded a faction of the TKMEU executive committee to sign an “undertaking” on company terms, management declared on March 1 that the union had agreed to end the strike. Although the rest of the TKMEU leadership initially rejected the company’s claims and vowed to fight on, the union performed an about-face two days later and ordered