India Factory Workers Revolt, Kill Company President

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2012/01/27/india-factory-workers-revolt-kill-company-president/

by Garbage • 14 years ago

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jdrols2• 14 years ago

Wow, that might be the worst lede I've ever seen in an article:

>Workers at the Regency Ceramics factory in the India raided the home of their boss, and beat him senseless with led pipes after a wage dispute turned ugly.

Led pipes and "The India", seriously Forbes?

someone13• 14 years ago

Not to nitpick, but the article has several other grammar mistakes:

> Curfew and other civil orders were imposed in Yanam because of the uprising led to the murder of the Regency president.

> Eight Regency Ceramics workers were injured in police firing that followed [...]

And so on. I think that they might have forgotten to send this to the editor (not being sarcastic).

jeffool• 14 years ago

Or maybe they used some automatic translation tool and it was posted automatically when the foreign language version was posted?

martythemaniak3• 14 years ago

How about a more accurate title?

"Company president has police kill union boss, workers go on rampage and kill president".

drats• 14 years ago

"Has police kill union boss"? I don't see that anywhere in the article, some people think it's the right of unions not only to strike but also to use force (to block people entering workplaces). If they are legally not allowed to do that (court order) and the police have to disperse them violently then the police are just doing their job. And even if the police overstepped the mark and used too much force I don't think murder of the owner is a valid solution.

srik• 14 years ago

My gut (and friends back home) say thats exactly what happened.

martythemaniak3• 14 years ago

Well, we have no way of knowing whether he actually wanted him killed or "just" savagely beaten, but it doesn't matter. Second degree murder is still murder.

Now, if you think this was some kind of routine police enforcement action that got out of hand and that the company boss had nothing to do with it, then I don't think you know how things work, especially in places like India. The police chief and top brass would most likely be part of the same social circles and would look out for each other's interests. In corrupt places, the power of the state is always readily available to the rich and powerful, whether it's quelling a labour dispute in India or a low-interest Fed borrowing window.

Now, when I first read the title I was struck that a company president would be killed by workers, but after reading the article, it suddenly makes a lot more sense, doesn't it?

Now that I think about it, it's also pretty sad that the killing of a labour activist doesn't surprise or shock me, but the killing of an executive does.

Karunamon• 14 years ago

>and the police have to disperse them violently then the police are just doing their job.

If the police have to disperse them "violently", then they suck as police and should be fired.

angrycoder• 14 years ago

Because it is a headline, not a summary.

martythemaniak3• 14 years ago

Oh, I seem to have missed the Forbes headline on the killing of the union boss...

keeptrying• 14 years ago

Recently forbes has started to stink big time.

Their articles are mostly lousy. Bad headlines. Hardly any editing done on the story.

What happened? It used to be such a respectable magazine.

coryl• 14 years ago

Perhaps web economics? The struggle to make money off quality content vs pageview CPM model?

radicalbyte• 14 years ago

They outsourced it to India?

stickfigure• 14 years ago

There is simply not enough information in the article to make any kind of moral judgement on the people involved.*

* With the exception of Forbes' editors, who clearly deserve the bile posted. Led pipes? Really?

India Factory Workers Revolt, Kill Company President

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