A 24 hour nationwide strike called by the joint co-ordination council of 11 trade unions from midnight of 27/28 Feb had paralysed the state, nay country. The trade unions, cutting across party affiliations, had taken this step to highlight the following:-
(a) Sidelining of workers by governments, from time to time, with regard to their welfare.
(b) Lack of effective steps to contain price rise.
(c) Disinvestment of public sector companies to be stopped.
(d) Privatisation of services that could lead to job loss.
It was yet another day of agony for the common man. People were stranded at airports, railway stations and bus stations! Was enraged to see a few of the smiling trade union leaders come on television, on prime time news, in the course of the day claiming success of their call for the strike. Successful in causing undue hardship for their brethren? What does one do to these spoilsports? And what are they attributing their success to?
(a) Over million productive man hours gone down the drain?
(b) No production of any sort which would have fetched crores of rupees in return?
(c) Losses due to damage to public property?
(d) Causing untold pain and suffering to their fellow citizens?
Are they friends of the nation or otherwise? Always wonder as to why we do not have the Japanese - they love their motherland - culture? An oft repeated story of the workers of a shoe company making one shoe out of a pair to protest against their management's policy - no loss of man hours, no loss of productivity and above all, no loss or damage to public property!
And exploitation took another unprecedented leap in malluland, in terms of novelty! Some of the guys who'd given the call for the strike were using their vehicles to ferry stranded passengers at exhorbitant rates!!
Yes, this happens only in India!!!
(a) Sidelining of workers by governments, from time to time, with regard to their welfare.
(b) Lack of effective steps to contain price rise.
(c) Disinvestment of public sector companies to be stopped.
(d) Privatisation of services that could lead to job loss.
It was yet another day of agony for the common man. People were stranded at airports, railway stations and bus stations! Was enraged to see a few of the smiling trade union leaders come on television, on prime time news, in the course of the day claiming success of their call for the strike. Successful in causing undue hardship for their brethren? What does one do to these spoilsports? And what are they attributing their success to?
(a) Over million productive man hours gone down the drain?
(b) No production of any sort which would have fetched crores of rupees in return?
(c) Losses due to damage to public property?
(d) Causing untold pain and suffering to their fellow citizens?
Are they friends of the nation or otherwise? Always wonder as to why we do not have the Japanese - they love their motherland - culture? An oft repeated story of the workers of a shoe company making one shoe out of a pair to protest against their management's policy - no loss of man hours, no loss of productivity and above all, no loss or damage to public property!
And exploitation took another unprecedented leap in malluland, in terms of novelty! Some of the guys who'd given the call for the strike were using their vehicles to ferry stranded passengers at exhorbitant rates!!
Yes, this happens only in India!!!
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