Reading newspaper is my
favorite time pass in the morning. This is not only a source of news and
information but I also gain insights to the life of common people. By common
here I mean all those middle class families and persons who constitute largest
part in the population and face common issues. While going through news in
today’s newspaper, where restaurant owners pleaded with folded hands before
green tribunal to not shut their restaurants, the owners gave the reasons that
the livelihood of 2000 workers was at stake. The reason is genuine and I also
agree that the families of daily wage earners will suffer but tell me honestly
how many of you feel that the owners are that much concerned about their life?
I believe that not even 90% of those are genuinely interested in the life of their
servants.
One of my professors, who was carrying out
research in the case of violence in Maruti plant in Manesar which left one
manager dead and 40 injured. He revealed his findings that how those employees
got so much frustrated. I don’t know how much truth is there in his findings
but I can’t deny after what I had to face when I had to join an organisation
for internship, I had to deny the proposal. Let me share the story of the
employees there. The employees were on a tight schedule without appropriate breaks.
The equipment and dress which they had to wear use to eat up all the time which
they used to get in brakes in keeping them in their appropriate place. If they
would be late by even one minute they were given half day salary for that day.
One employee’s father kicked the bucket so he had to go to perform rituals but
he was denied for that. They told him we don’t care if you would not be here in
three days you would be fired and he had to lose his job. The immediate reason
which resulted in violence was workers were asked to reach factory premises one
hour earlier without any compensation. This wasn’t mentioned in any newspaper.
This is the story of an
international company which shows in their balance sheet that they are spending
millions in social work. What is the use of that if they don’t care about their
own employees? This is happening in almost all multinationals and big
firms. If you don’t agree then show me
examples.
Even I faced similar situation when I applied
for internship in organizations. Most of them are taking full work from us
without any inclusion of training or workshop still paying meager amount and
support it by arguing that we should be more than happy because atleast we are
getting something for internship period. These companies are asking us to
completely isolate our personal life. If
they care about anything is just profit on the cost of our life. We are slave to them. Now I understand why
most of my friend wanted to join government organizations.
You must have faced similar situations or
you may have seen it from your own eyes. Now let’s unite together and expose
them. We should stop those organizations from going that big that they can
exploit their employees without any fear of law. Join this campaign so that we
will build a better tomorrow for everyone.
