I know I should feel bad, but we’ve seen so many bosses hurt so many workers in so many places, maybe my brain just craves some balance.
A mob of Indian workers has beaten the CEO of a jute factory to death in a dispute over increasing their working hours, police told the AP news agency after arresting six workers.
Four suspects were arrested on Sunday, followed by two on Monday, and are expected to be charged with murder, vandalism and other crimes.
A group of 200 workers, wielding iron rods and stones, stormed the office of 60-year-old HK Maheswari in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, according to Sunil Chowdhury, the Hooghly district superintendent.
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 factory’s general manager, Kiranjit Singh.
This is exactly the wrong response to settle grievances. Because in the end the guys with the most firepower (weapons) win. In between the beginning and the end lots of innocent people (less zealous) get killed. When you have the numbers, which the workers in this case obviously had, then your ability to get your way, peaceful, is a foregone conclusion. Strike or stay home. Failure to cooperate is the key to success. There are 99% of us and 1% of them. Without us they’re doomed. Without them ‘they’re’ doomed. It’s a win win for the 99%.
Sorry I don’t see a peaceful process available. Passive resistance, innocent people get killed. Active resistance, innocent people get killed. The difference is in the former all those getting killed are the 99%. I have no remorse when one of the 1% take it in the neck.
Neither did Marx, Ron. And neither did the War Scroll. They’re both wrong.