The Maruti strike & an old story from the Tata Group

Recent coverage on Maruti Suzuki India Ltd’s union problems and the manner in which the situation has been managed led to a déjà vu moment for me. On 23 September 1983, a few hundred employees of the Taj (Bombay) expressed their unhappiness by setting fire to a few sofas in the lobby, breaking furniture and shouting anti-management slogans. Soon after, the then chairman of the company, J.R.D. Tata, called an emergency meeting.

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