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http://www.montrealgazette.com/touch/story.html?id=9943646<snip>
KOLKATA, India An angry mob of Indian workers wielding iron rods and stones beat the CEO of a jute factory to death in a dispute over increasing their working hours, police said Monday after arresting six workers.
The suspects two detained Monday and four on Sunday are expected to be charged with murder, vandalism and other crimes allegedly committed when the mob of about 200 workers stormed the office of 60-year-old H.K. Maheswari in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, according to Hooghly District Police Superintendent Sunil Chowdhury.
Maheswari had denied their earlier request to work and be paid for 40 hours a week at the North Brook Jute Mill, instead of the current norm of 25. He had also proposed shutting down the mill for three days a week to limit mounting financial losses, according to the factorys general manager, Kiranjit Singh.
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Lint Head
(15,064 posts)Considering the way workers are treated around the world.
immoderate
(20,885 posts)--imm
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)By projecting and acting it out on vulnerable others that are less of a threat.
Like women, for example. Or children. Or self harm, suicide, addictions...... And other social violence.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)above the closed loop of reactive, instinctual, emotional behavior.... Anger. Greed. Stupidity.
This stuff here is Law of the Jungle. The weak curry favor and depend on the powerful. The powerful curry support from the weak and also prey on them. Everybody looks for quick relief from pain.
Exposethefrauds
(531 posts)It the inequality stupid
FrodosPet
(5,169 posts)Many people will be going to jail, and now instead of 25 hours, the rest have zero.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)klook
(12,134 posts)to come up some stupid "team-building" exercises to mollify them.
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)India now has for a prime minister one of the world's most notorious corporate whores. I doubt this is the last we hear of violent labor unrest there.
lovuian
(19,362 posts)the worker will rise up
JI7
(89,172 posts)They were not treated badly. The place was just not making money so they could not afford to pay workers so hours were cut.