[Reader-list] Strike

[faiz ullah]

Hi,

Instances of strike in India have been coming down year after year. About
800 in '94, 250 in '04 and about 170 in the 2008. What could be the factors?
Is it because there's growing insecurity amongst workers, given that a lot
of companies are using recession as an alibi to put more pressure on their
workers? But this is more recent. Have trade unions become weaker? Or things
have simply been getting better?


" Nestle strike creates fear in other factories"
http://www.business-standard.com/india/storypage.php?autono=357625


Was eating Maggi...and wondering if this strike is going to have a ripple
effect as this report speculates. Also, reporting in businees news media
always plays up words like 'trouble' and 'militancy'. Why aren't labour
issues part of the agneda...aren't they a part of the 'business'?


'Labour militancy back in India?'
http://www.rediff.com/money/2006/jan/12guest.htm
"They say Japanese managements have hardly made any effort to learn how to
deal with India's highly politicised unions, which traditionally take an
anti-management stance for their survival. In Japan, the culture is
completely different. For instance, the relationship between a labour union
and the company management is generally very close in Japan."
Workers must be really happy with their employers in Japan then!

Faiz