After lockdown, lathicharge, protests and suspension, Honda 2F workers now go on an indefinite hunger strike
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ContributeNow, the suspended and terminated workers made their way to the country capital and have decided to sit on an indefinite hunger strike.
“We have been struggling for over seven months. Now we are right here in the country’s capital and within the earshot of the central government, they will have to listen to us,” said Naresh Mehta, President of the Honda Motorcycle and Scooter 2F Kaamgar Union, at New Delhi’s Jantar Mantar.
At the moment, 2,500 contract workers and more than 100 permanent workers remain suspended or terminated
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