On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 3:09 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday 14 March 2012 14:45:13 haynes davis wrote: > > > Precisely my point, but perhaps not what you have in mind, which is > > > striking > > > work and preventing others less pandered from taking up their seats. If > > > the terms are so rotten, that company wont find competent employees and > > > will shut. In the past labour militancy (alongwith other parallel > > > factors) led to > > > the shutdown of industry. But that was not a disaster, as industries > > > moved to > > > better locations, and new industry with better working conditions > > > replaced them. For a shot while both labour and industrialists were > > > playing holier than thou, before economics forced better sense to > > > prevail. > > > > do you have any statistics on industries closed because of labour > > militancy. what percentage of closed industries is because of labour > > militancy? > > In the SSI MSI sector more than 90% shut in the 70s and 80s. Out of these > about 45% were due to labour problems. > Some examples GKW, Precision fastners, Murphy, Bush, > > > (what were the cause for militancy is another matter) > > There were also massive problems in L & T, Siemens, NRC (shut), Amar > Dyechem > (shut), J. K., TIFAC,. The list is really long. > All of the above were amongst the highest paid workers at the time. > > > what percentage is caused by economic policies? > > what % is caused by national/international monopolies? > > Meaning? I have yet to hear of a monopoly shutting during the tenure of > it's > monopoly. But innumerable stories playing out right now in India, now that > the monopolies are over. > > > what % is because of board of directors/ceo/cfo/coo/managerial idiocy? > > (this should be the largest) > > Surprisingly it is not. The banks go after them with a vengenance. Check > out > the bank figures. Particularly true in the SSI / MSI sector. > > > > if i tell not more than 5% of closures are because of labour militancy > how > > will you object it? > > You have got it right by -40%. > > The figures will have to be culled by visiting various libraries of news > papers. > > My statements are restricted to the state of Maharashtra. However, IMO, > conditions were no different in most parts, and a lot worse in WB. >
above statistics are not reflected in the report http://labourbureau.nic.in/ID%202k7%20Contents.htm thats for a single year 2007. may be you can help me with some data of 70s or 80s
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