In order to successfully organize the fight against global corporations like Renault Nissan, workers need a global strategy and new organizations of struggle to link up with auto and other workers across India and internationally.
This is the founding statement issued by the newly-formed Renault-Nissan autoworkers Rank-and-File Committee at the global auto giant’s car assembly plant on the outskirts of Chennai, India.
Thousands of Indian auto workers have protested in recent weeks against relentless management attacks and union betrayals. Many are now convinced they have to form new organizations of struggle Rank-and-File Committees.
Hundreds of workers at the recently shuttered Ford assembly plant in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu have rebelled against a management-union severance deal that sanctions the elimination of thousands of jobs.