On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:48 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> That kind of attitude has already led to the ruin of the country as a >> whole. If the state cannot guarantee basic labour rights, then it will be >> for the workers to set the terms for work. > > Rubbish. The work force you are talking of has far far more than basic rights. > And the problem is not because of gold collar worker rights, but equally > stupid past economic policies, some of which were corrected. The platinum > collared work force in our psus produced hot air, while getting monopoly > rights in their industry. The rest of the shirtless public worked their asses > off to feed these criminals. Yet we hear holy sermons from these overfed fat > cats.
It is due to the liberalisation regime that workers rights have got further trampled upon in an already capitalist state that has least respect for welfare > Right now you have AIR INDIA, one of the worst airlines, sucking out money. > It's imminent "demise" has been abetted by some crooked decisions, but no way > could it have survived this far without state patronage and monopoly rights. Air india's apparent problems are vijay mallya and other politician's work. http://kaipullai.com/2011/11/28/the-curious-case-of-vijay-mallya-and-his-bailout-and-one-more-scam/ > >> These employees organisation >> should force their own version of 'terms of work'. Either the >> employers accept those terms or let them close down. >> > > 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. Nothing like that has happened. All the resources have been hoarded by a few and the rest have been made to rot. All places in the country are actually witnessing an increase in strikes. Best A. Mani -- A. Mani CU, ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
