Killing Management

Labor and management have often collided over contracts and worker rights but never have matters crossed a line. Well, they did yesterday when the CEO of a Noida company “was bludgeoned to death by a 200-strong armed mob of dismissed workers.” It is a severe setback for labor movement when the rule of the law is openly flouted not only when public property is damaged due to bandhs but as in this case utterly despicable when the CEO is murdered in broad daylight.

The socialist mindsets of the government reared its ugly head when the Union Labour Minister Oscar Fernandes revealed his crassness and naivete toward effect on foreign investments when he actually condoned the behavior of the murderous mob. In his words, “this should serve as a warning for the managements. It is my appeal to the managements that the workers should be dealt with compassion.” So workers should be dealt with compassion by not firing them but management is fair game because apparently they are cold insensitive androids?

Amit Varma points to the exact image that conjured up in my head. After all, it is in their psyche that garibon ka saathi is always right even if he commits a ghastly murder because in their minds, the CEO had it coming. Probably the French guillotine further romantizes such perverse thoughts. When will we start acting like the civilization that we claim to be?

“Killing Management” [Short URL: http://www.ipatrix.com/?p=2747] was published Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 at 9:03 am by Patrix, filed under Governance, India, Rants, and tagged as crime, India, violence. Both comments and linkbacks are closed.

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http://windyskies.blogspot.com Anil
More than socialist, it is ‘trade union’ minds. Having personally faced mobs, though not bigger than 50 people at a time, I can graphically imagine what he must have faced. Believe me, it can be very, very scary and very ugly. This post just triggered some old memories.
sqrl
Happened to catch this on NDTV, and the anchor, in an attempt to ‘balance the reports’ actually asked if this was a reason of ‘hire and fire’ policies of new companies. I don’t understand how anyone in their right minds might try to rationalize something like this.
Slightly related, I don’t know if you’ve seen it, but the praise lauded upon the movie ‘Wednesday’ is in fact scary to me.
http://www.ipatrix.com Patrix
@Anil: Trade unions are fine but sadly most of them degenerate into goonda organizations. Guess power does that to you. I would like to hear what happened to you but can understand if its too personal.
@sqrl: violence sadly is excused under justifiable reasons. So much for Gandhi and his ahimsa teachings.
Haven’t seen Wednesday yet.
http://routinated.blogspot.com Ranjith Kollannur
The Government and the industry did later clamp down on his statement and make him retract. So, maybe we shouldn’t generalize one person’s views for the entire government. It is unfortunate that the lynching and the comment occurred, but part of being a democracy is that we need to take the good with the bad. There are people who are ready to kill and unfortunately they have a say in governance as well.

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