On Wednesday 14 March 2012 15:59:21 A. Mani wrote: > 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
Ah. So why dont this bunch of oh-so-exploited start a co-operative and run it. Last I heard it requires extraordinary skill and enormous capital. Both of which are sorely lacking in enterprise that did try this modus operandi. Richardson Crudass and Kamani steel pipes come to mind. The governments that love to pick other peoples pocket to feed their fatcats, do not think it worth their while to fund such co-operatives. > > > 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-ba >ilout-and-one-more-scam/ Vijay Mallaya's fishers werent even around when AI had a monopoly and was screwing the Indian public with strikes. And 20000 odd crores of taxpayers money pumped into AI over the past few years, is all because of Vijay Mallaya. Nice joke. > > >> 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. Ah. You mean those poor starving, regular chauffered AC car instead of Maybach, Pizza and lasagna fed at subsidised canteen, call center and IT hub workers. Yeah, what a sorry place to gym in, not even a decent swimming pool. > All places in the country > are actually witnessing an increase in strikes. Which means industries are looting the worker. > > > Best > > A. Mani -- Rgds JTD _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
