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.
Working in close concert with management, the union effectively ambushed the workers, forcing them to immediately vote on a contract they had not seen.
Fearing growing rank-and-file anger over their inaction, the unions have connived with Renault-Nissan management to ambush us forcing us to vote on an agreement that we haven’t seen, let alone studied and discussed.
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.