Labour dynamics

The Hindu Business Line editorial:

The industry is today at a point where it has begun even to question the very rationale for workers to organise themselves into collective units, and some constituents have gone to the extent of actually thwarting efforts by the labour to do so. From a larger stakeholder perspective, that would be a folly. There may be occasions when labour representatives over-reach themselves out of a misguided sense of their importance or even out of venality. But the answer to that lies in setting up more channels of communication with labour rather than undermining the traditional trade union movement, however much it is perceived as an anachronism.

This approach makes more sense to me than most of what I get to see on the net. Definitely I prefer this to a friend's attitude: [Datta Samant] was shot dead eventually, but it was too late.

Here's an article by P Sainath on the Gurgaon episode.