Posted on 09/25/2008 11:29:07 AM PDT by forkinsocket
Corporate India is in shock after a mob of workers bludgeoned to death the chief executive who sacked them from a factory in a suburb of Delhi.
Lalit Kishore Choudhary, 47, the head of the Indian operations of Graziano Transmissioni, a manufacturer of car parts that has its headquarters in Italy, died of severe head wounds on Monday after being attacked by scores of laid-off employees, police said. The incident, in Greater Noida, followed a long-running dispute between the factory’s management and workers demanding better pay and permanent contracts.
It is understood that Mr Choudhary, who was married with one son, had called a meeting with more than a hundred former employees who had been dismissed after an earlier outbreak of violence at the plant. He wanted to discuss a possible reinstatement deal.
A police spokesman said: “Only a few people were called inside. About 150 people were waiting outside when they heard someone from inside shout for help. They rushed in and the two sides clashed. The company staff were heavily outnumbered.”
Other executives said that they were lucky to escape with their lives. “I locked my door from inside and prayed they would not break in. See, my hands are trembling even three hours later,” one Italian consultant told reporters.
More than 60 people were arrested and more than 20 were in hospital yesterday.
A spokesman for the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry said: “Such a heinous act is bound to sully India’s image among overseas investors.”
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Just some trade unionists doing a little community organizing.
Maybe the UAW could use them.
No golden-parachute there...
“A democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.” - Benjamin Franklin
Guy wasn't very smart. He bought the Porche before all of the outsourced people were gone from the company, and couldn't understand why his car kept getting keyed.
Corporate America may start rethinking outsourcing to India.
I’m surprised O’Reilly hasn’t gleefully reported this. He seems to think all CEO’s should be beated to death.
“beaten” Arrgh!
(Cough), Stan O’Neal, (cough).
Just one of the costs of offshoring.
That's the big theme on a lot of these treads lately. It's crazy the way so many freepers hate corporations and CEO's, but then demand that Bush "create" more jobs.
This is what they call 'conservative'?
Well, too late for a bailout for him.
NEXT!!
Well, too late for a bailout for him.
NEXT!!
Civilization is a very thin veneer, which our "leaders" should never forget.
“He seems to think all CEO’s should be beated to death.”
I don’t know about that, but there are probably a whole bunch that should be tarred and feathered.
In addition to having a fiduciary responsibility to stakeholders, there are moral responsibilities to the people that got them there (who are also stakeholders by definition).
Unfettered capitalism without moral underpinnings is every bit as bad as any other system.
Jesus himself said as much. Greed is NOT a conservative value.
Jeez, the CEO of Hanesbrands should think about closing the MILLS in the USA!!
“beaten” Arrgh!.....
The beatings will continue until morale improves!....
Let's not forget the incestuous relationship between most of the boards and the CEO's. Look at who sits on the boards of most major corporations, they are almost all former CEO's of other companies. Who just keep the good times rolling by agreeing to these asinine golden parachute deals etc.... they are not looking out for the shareholders.
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