CEO killing: Trade unions back Oscar Fernandes

Agencies Tags : nation, ceo killing, oscar, trade unions Posted: Thursday , Sep 25, 2008 at 1632 hrs New Delhi, September 25::

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Batting for Union Labour Minister Oscar Fernandes, national trade unions on Thursday joined the issue with government on the CEO's killing in Greater Noida, and said multi-national firms are ‘blatantly’ violating labour laws.

Expressing identical views, leaders of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC) and the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) said there was nothing wrong with Fernandes cautioning the managements over ‘simmering discontent’ among workers.

While they condemned the killing of Graziano Transmissioni CEO L K Chaudhury on September 22, the union leaders said the government was allowing MNCs to flout labour laws in the name of attracting foreign investment.

"He (Fernandes) has correctly mentioned that there are disparities between contractual and regular workers," CITU president M K Pandhe said.

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He said while lynching of a CEO could not be justified, ‘there was no need for the Labour Minister to withdraw his statement’.

Pandhe repeated the minister's quote that triggered a furore in industry. "The incident should serve as warning to managements, who should deal with workers' problems with compassion," Fernandes had said.

Following uproar in India Inc over the Labour Minister's remarks, the government on Wednesday held a high-level meeting, following which Fernandes apologised.

INTUC president G S Reddy said the reasons for the Greater Noida mishap as outlined by the Labour Minister were correct. "MNCs are responsible for this type of situation. If an MNC gets cheap labour on contract which behaves irresponsibly, then who is responsible," he asked.

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ssdsBy: sd | 26-Sep-2008 Reply | Forward Whatever logic these trade unions use to support their and the ministers argument. In the first place, it's a sin to kill a human being and the workers have done this heinous crime which is unpardonable and need to be punished for this. There have always been disparties between contractual labour and regular but this is not the way to respond to this problem. Let the workers and trade unions question the government, why should they kill the people? We cannot ask private companies from other countries to totally do business in a way we want in this country, we can only clear issues by discussions.Otherwise these workers will be the only sufferers when these companies shut the shop. The company is not at loss, see Tata and Singur.Tata is in loss only temporarily but the workers will not have food to eat and their life will never change.Do they think the government will feed them. Open your eyes.

Time to think. Oscar is not wrongBy: Jay | 25-Sep-2008 Reply | Forward How many common workers’ family have access to internet and computer to post messages in such boards? It’s not so surprising that majority in this forum condemn the Congress minister but very few have the guts and ability to analyze what he said. He NEVER supported the killing, nor do I. But there is a reason why it happened and what industry captains should do to minimize such incidents. We all know how Indian businessmen and industrialists work, particularly in construction, manufacturing and other labor intensive sectors. Majority of them are corrupt to their cores but our system hardly punish them. And due to such people few reasonably good people are also blamed. What practical ways a common citizen or worker has if s/he is cheated by an industrialist or a politician? Practically nothing. It’s not that surprising that so many extremist movements are going in almost entire country. It’s time to introspect and change ourselves.

These people are thugsBy: rahul | 25-Sep-2008 Reply | Forward Oscar and his band of thugs (Union leaders), need to understand that the only real execuse for killing a person is self-defence, period. Their is no other execuse. So they need to stop implying that the killing was justified.

Oscar Fernandes's irresponsible statementBy: Debashish Bhattacharyya | 25-Sep-2008 Reply | Forward I wonder if some kin of Oscar Fernandes had met with similar problem, whether he would have made the irresponsible statement that he made, or would he be baying for the blood of the perpetrators!!Whatever be the provocation, trying to justify mob violence, and taking of law in own hands, is a statement the minister should have desisted from; that he made the statement only shows how he tried to make hay from a tragedy - it is deplorable.

CEO lynchingBy: balamurugesan | 25-Sep-2008 Reply | Forward If India gets cheap minded politicians as her ministers and union leaders and the Indian labour class gets hooligans and their supporters as their leaders, who is responsible, Mr. Reddy? It can only be hoped that something similar to Mr. Choudhury happens to one of you.

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