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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You’re fired!
No, YOU’RE fired!
No. Organized labor.
“your fired”
reply
“no...YOUR FIRED”
I’d guess they are less afraid of going to prison then they were telling their wives that they had been fired.
What the labor unions wish and dream.
Outsource this!
Seriously, though stock option based reimbursement has created some truly perverse incentives in the business world.
Saw a video from a Communist promoting the campaign that the employers are tyrants and the workers should seize the business for themselves.
Yeah, I think that is the underlying current in much of the chaos happening right now.
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?
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”
And with synchronized cap lock too!
FIFY
ACORN and public workers unions are taking notes.
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)
I missed the locale. This happened in Madison WI, right?
Talk about lack of civility!
Never bring a briefcase to a fire fight!
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