The gates at Maruti Suzuki's Manesar factory in northern India are shut and more than 500 police are on guard.<br/> <br />Workmen are repairing the damage caused by rampaging employees who torched facilities, killing one manager and injuring more than hundred on July 18.<br/> <br />Police are still looking for the perpetrators and plan to charge the union leaders with murder, assault and arson for instigating the revolt<br/> <br />More than 2,500 workers have disappeared from the factory, fearful that they will be blamed for the violence.<br/> <br />Labour union leaders say the riot was the culmination of a long-running struggle between the shop floor and management over wages and "unfair" management practices.<br/> <br />SOUNDBITE: SECRETARY OF THE NEW TRADE UNION INITIATIVE, GAUTAM MODY SAYING (English):<br/> <br />"At Manesar, Suzuki has said to the world that we are incapable of running a factory at Manesar. We are incapable of running a new car plant in India."<br/> <br />India's labour laws, some dating to the 1920s, make it difficult for large companies to fire permanent workers. Employers say they need contractors for seasonal demand shifts.<br/> <br />Manesar's best-paid manufacturing workers earn 450 USD (25,000 rupees) a month, and 1,500 more on temporary contracts, earn less than half that.<br/> <br />Masako Iijima, Reuters
