Comments on: The Akbarallys story http://www.ravikiran.com/blog/classic/200603/the-akbarallys-story/ Where I torture reality till it confesses the truth Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:24:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Bhushan http://www.ravikiran.com/blog/classic/200603/the-akbarallys-story/comment-page-1/#comment-12607 Bhushan Wed, 05 Apr 2006 15:59:11 +0000 http://www.ravikiran.com/2006/03/27/the-akbarallys-story/#comment-12607 Sir, in my humble opinion in the fight between industrialists and the trade union wallahs it's the common public that suffers and the hardest hit are the workers. they have no where to go and left lurching without payments for days together and these folks are not fat salary earners but economically some where in the middle class or lower middle class who depends on their monthly incomes to earn a respectful bread and butter. the sidpute is claimed to be solved http://mumbai.metblogs.com/archives/2006/04/akbarallys_workers_dispute_fin.phtml Sir, in my humble opinion in the fight between industrialists and the trade union wallahs it’s the common public that suffers and the hardest hit are the workers. they have no where to go and left lurching without payments for days together and these folks are not fat salary earners but economically some where in the middle class or lower middle class who depends on their monthly incomes to earn a respectful bread and butter.

the sidpute is claimed to be solved
http://mumbai.metblogs.com/archives/2006/04/akbarallys_workers_dispute_fin.phtml

]]> By: yum yum http://www.ravikiran.com/blog/classic/200603/the-akbarallys-story/comment-page-1/#comment-12568 yum yum Tue, 04 Apr 2006 06:55:30 +0000 http://www.ravikiran.com/2006/03/27/the-akbarallys-story/#comment-12568 Oh no no! You are an extremist. Have fun! Oh no no! You are an extremist.

Have fun!

]]> By: Ravikiran Rao http://www.ravikiran.com/blog/classic/200603/the-akbarallys-story/comment-page-1/#comment-12567 Ravikiran Rao Tue, 04 Apr 2006 05:03:16 +0000 http://www.ravikiran.com/2006/03/27/the-akbarallys-story/#comment-12567 What moderate stance have I taken on this? What moderate stance have I taken on this?

]]> By: yum yum http://www.ravikiran.com/blog/classic/200603/the-akbarallys-story/comment-page-1/#comment-12566 yum yum Tue, 04 Apr 2006 04:58:06 +0000 http://www.ravikiran.com/2006/03/27/the-akbarallys-story/#comment-12566 Your personal experience seems to have made you take a moderate stance on this. Unions in India have been indeed taken over by gangsters and have only had bad effects for workers and industry. In fact, the unionised workers had become a kind of aristocracy with the union leaders being parasites on both the workers and the industrialists. In India, it went to that extreme. On the other hand, in the West it went to the other extreme with professional union-busting using sleaze tactics which led to the demise of unions. What followed was the destruction of social benefits, outright theft of pension benefits, social disharmony and even violence. It seems the clock is turning back. I am not a big fan of unions but if investors can organise themselves for common gain then workers should also be free to organise themselves. There is a middle ground everywhere. Too much of anything is just bad. Your personal experience seems to have made you take a moderate stance on this.

Unions in India have been indeed taken over by gangsters and have only had bad effects for workers and industry. In fact, the unionised workers had become a kind of aristocracy with the union leaders being parasites on both the workers and the industrialists. In India, it went to that extreme.

On the other hand, in the West it went to the other extreme with professional union-busting using sleaze tactics which led to the demise of unions. What followed was the destruction of social benefits, outright theft of pension benefits, social disharmony and even violence.

It seems the clock is turning back. I am not a big fan of unions but if investors can organise themselves for common gain then workers should also be free to organise themselves.

There is a middle ground everywhere. Too much of anything is just bad.

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