 Workers of the Maruti Suzuki's Manesar plant will stage a round-the-clock sit-in whereby they will continue peaceful demonstration even during nights. The trouble began on Monday when Maruti authorities refused to allow workers to enter the plant without signing a good conduct undertaking. The company has terminated services of 23 workers and suspended 26 more. This is in addition to eight terminations in the last three months. It must be recalled that the workers of the same plant staged a 13-day tool-down in June. They were demanding an independent union separate from the union co-opted by the Maruti management. The Maruti officials told us that low productivity and degraded quality of work is the immediate provocation for the latest decision. The officials stated that the workers have malicious intent to sabotage quality production and the company cannot compromise over quality. The workers and trade union leaders, however, have a difference of opinion. Since the Labour Department, Haryana Labour Department rejected the union registration file, the company has picked up on this issue of indiscipline and cooked up all kinds of allegations against workers. In the last one month alone, they have issued 18 charge sheets, 8 suspensions, 29 advisory letters, 30 warning letters. Today, there are another 15 suspension letters and this lockout. This is nothing but a continuing attack on the right of these workers to form their own union. The immediate trigger for this lockout could be the fact that all 812 workers who had been for the last six months trying to give their resignations to the Maruti Udyo-Kamgar union, which the union as well as management were trying to subvert their resignations. They had finally gone ahead and given their individual resignations through registered posts to the general secretary of Mukku, which is the Maruti Udyo-Kamgar union. And on Friday or Saturday, the general secretary accepted nearly 550 of these resignation letters. That could be the immediate trigger. In the present situation, the government, corporate, police, nexus has again become apparent in the industrial belt of Haryana.