The disinvestment minister Arun Shourie kick-started the privatisation of government-owned companies by divesting 25% of the government stakes in car maker Maruti Udyog in June last year.

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But its 15% share of the Indian passenger car market pales in comparison with that of Maruti Udyog, the Suzuki-partnered company with a 55% stake.

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The company says it already has a union, the Maruti Udyog Kamamgar Union (MUKU), at its Gurgaon plant and if workers at Manesar want a union, they should come under the MUKU umbrella.

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The challenges to Maruti Udyog are long overdue.

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But its 15% share of the Indian passenger car market pales in comparison with that of Maruti Udyog, the Suzuki (other-otc: SZKMF - news - people )-partnered company with a 55% stake.

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Kumar's allegation is only one among a plethora of reasons, such as low wages and overuse of contract labor threatening to undermine this burgeoning garments-to cars hub that has been an integral part of India's industrial growth and globalization story ever since Maruti Udyog set shop here to produce the iconic Maruti 800 in the 1980s.

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