 "Workers outside Maruti Suzuki's plant at Manesar Photo: Reuters")
About 2 kms from the Industrial Model Township (IMT) at Manesar on National Highway 48, a group of workers, labour union leaders and activists have gathered to protest against the retrenchment of contractual workers in the auto firms in the Manesar-Gurugram belt. It is 4 pm and their agitation picks up as a new group of leaders from CITU joins in, their voices rising alongside the blare of continuous announcements from the loudspeaker.
Satbir Singh, general secretary of CITU’s Haryana unit, sounds sombre when he speaks to this correspondent after delivering his speech. Singh has been attending similar gatherings in
