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Fired workers burn Indian executive to death (Workers fired up, ready to go!)
SF GATE ^ | 3/3/11 | STAFF

Posted on 03/05/2011 7:41:56 AM PST by Mikey_1962

Indian police detained two people after an angry mob of fired workers burned to death a senior executive of a steel factory, an official said Friday.

After learning they were laid off, about a dozen workers attacked a vehicle carrying Radhey Shyam Roy as he was leaving the factory in eastern Orissa state on Thursday, dousing the Jeep with gasoline and setting it on fire, said police Superintendent Ajay Kumar Sarangi.

Two other people in the vehicle were allowed to flee but Roy, 59, was trapped inside and later died of severe burns, Sarangi said.

Police were questioning two workers and their formal arrest on murder charges was likely, Sarangi told The Associated Press. The steel factory is in Bolangir district, nearly 250 miles (400 kilometers) west of Bhubaneshwar, the capital of Orissa state.

Incidents of industrial violence are common in India, where workers often target executives in cases of wage disputes and job losses.

In 2008, scores of dismissed employees of an Italian manufacturing company, Graziano Transmissioni India, used iron rods and wooden sticks to beat to death the company's local chief executive officer on the outskirts of New Delhi

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: firedworkers; gasoline; india; italian; jobs; manufacturing; mob; workers
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Now THAT is community organizing!
1 posted on 03/05/2011 7:42:01 AM PST by Mikey_1962
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To: Mikey_1962

You’re fired!

No, YOU’RE fired!


2 posted on 03/05/2011 7:42:50 AM PST by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead.)
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To: Mikey_1962

No. Organized labor.


3 posted on 03/05/2011 7:43:17 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: Mikey_1962

“your fired”

reply

“no...YOUR FIRED”


4 posted on 03/05/2011 7:43:33 AM PST by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Mikey_1962

I’d guess they are less afraid of going to prison then they were telling their wives that they had been fired.


5 posted on 03/05/2011 7:47:41 AM PST by padre35 (You shall not ignore the laws of God, the Market, the Jungle, and Reciprocity Rm10.10)
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To: Mikey_1962

What the labor unions wish and dream.


6 posted on 03/05/2011 7:48:26 AM PST by nerdwithagun (I'd rather go gun to gun then knife to knife.)
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To: Mikey_1962

Outsource this!

Seriously, though stock option based reimbursement has created some truly perverse incentives in the business world.


7 posted on 03/05/2011 7:50:12 AM PST by Yet_Again
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To: Mikey_1962

Saw a video from a Communist promoting the campaign that the employers are tyrants and the workers should seize the business for themselves.


8 posted on 03/05/2011 7:50:18 AM PST by griswold3 (The wolves are howling)
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To: griswold3

Yeah, I think that is the underlying current in much of the chaos happening right now.


9 posted on 03/05/2011 7:54:26 AM PST by SuzyQue (Remember to think.)
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To: SuzyQue; griswold3

When we can’t buy anything (if we’ve got money) because all the CEOs and manufacturing leaders have either fled or been killed, who will be responsible? Who will be in charge?

Yes, rhetorical question. These people can’t think even a week into the future, can they?


10 posted on 03/05/2011 8:05:41 AM PST by FrogMom (No such thing as an honest democrat!)
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To: Vaquero; Free Vulcan

Are we the Borg here? What great collective thought. I love it. So did they tell the boss? “We are having a BBQ and you are the fuel”


11 posted on 03/05/2011 8:08:18 AM PST by 70th Division (I love my country but fear my government!)
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To: 70th Division

And with synchronized cap lock too!


12 posted on 03/05/2011 8:13:37 AM PST by dennisw ( The early bird catches the worm)
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To: griswold3
Saw a video from a Communist Democrat promoting the campaign that the employers are tyrants and the workers should seize the business for themselves.

FIFY

13 posted on 03/05/2011 8:20:00 AM PST by Drill Thrawl (I don't prep for the disaster. I prepare for the rebuilding.)
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To: Mikey_1962

ACORN and public workers unions are taking notes.


14 posted on 03/05/2011 8:22:17 AM PST by BipolarBob (I'm BiPolar and BiWinning. BiCurious? Call 1-800-CharleySheen)
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To: BipolarBob

I still think the Japanese system is the best to be had. Make employees part of the decision-making in the business. Allow employees access to financial records and a stake in the outcome of decisions and they become more like a family. Then unions are not necessary and employees are happy and productive. (yeah, I’m an idealist)


15 posted on 03/05/2011 8:28:40 AM PST by WVNan
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To: Drill Thrawl

I missed the locale. This happened in Madison WI, right?


16 posted on 03/05/2011 8:29:09 AM PST by barb-tex
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To: Mikey_1962

Talk about lack of civility!


17 posted on 03/05/2011 8:37:06 AM PST by Starboard
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To: Mikey_1962

Never bring a briefcase to a fire fight!


18 posted on 03/05/2011 8:50:46 AM PST by Kartographer (".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
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To: Drill Thrawl

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/young-madison-socialist-reveals-popular-noodles-company-restaurant-is-actually-harsh-dictatorship/

Found it!


19 posted on 03/05/2011 8:54:03 AM PST by griswold3 (The wolves are howling)
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To: Mikey_1962
Sounds like they had a Bombay flambe. I'd be very nervous laying off a bunch of leftists given their tendency to resort to violence.

If he was the other type of Indian maybe he would have been armed with a Tomahawk and could have defended himself.
20 posted on 03/05/2011 8:56:55 AM PST by Dayman
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