Organized Labor Comes To India's Tech Industry

[OhioChick]

11.19.06, 6:00 PM ET

India’s technology industry, which has been merrily soaking up jobs from higher-cost countries, got a little shock last week when it had its first brush with organized labor.

The Center for Indian Trade Unions, a Communist group that represents several million employees across India, launched the West Bengal Information Technology Services Association in Kolkota. Since it’s not as much a union as an employee rights group, membership is voluntary.

Trade union leaders have accused technology-services firms of abuses ranging from firing employees without notice to not providing transport for workers leaving late-night jobs.

For now, however, there probably won’t union halls full of job-hungry computer geeks looking for new gigs. The technology services sector is expected to generate 1.4 million jobs by 2010, as well as face a shortage of 500,000 professionals.
http://www.forbes.com/business/commerce/2006/11/19/union-bengal-technology-face-cx_rd_1117autofacescan05.html

[Deja Q]

1. American companies will give in when the time comes.

They have no choice. They are running out of countries to exploit. And I don't know of anybody, in any country, that would quit in protest when there's a "worker shortage", which is why Americans fear for their jobs right now.

[upi402]

2. Go union! Laura Flanders talks about labor.

Not much mention of it generally. Unionism is the prime solution for justice and fairness in this new world order of corporatism though.

[Union Thug]

3. Watch for american corporations to abandon India to find other cheap labor...

very soon.

[lovuian]

4. India is a Socialist country

:woohoo: Labor unions...My prediction the Indians will ask for more money than the Americans and because the Corporations destroyed the computer programing industry in America... They will PAY:)