11-12-2008, 08:17 AM
<b>IT professionals form union to hold on to jobs</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Das Kapital would probably not be on their reading lists, yet in their hour of crisis, <b>India's information technology professionals have turned to collective bargaining techniques that Marx would laud.</b>
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A group of top officials from the global union is scheduled to arrive in New Delhi on December 5 to meet Nasscom officials and Indian ministers to talk about how best the sector can safeguard employee's interests. After these discussions, office bearers of the Indian union will tour the country, talking to company managements about alternatives to firing employees.
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The Indian union, which has about 15,000 members from top firms such as IBM and Infosys, estimates that firms in the sector have axed 10,000 jobs in the past three months. The Indian union may, however, be defying a long-standing diktat by the industry's umbrella body, the National Association of Software and Service Companies, or Nasscom, that IT professionals must not get involved in trade unionism.
âWe donât need intermediaries,â Ganesh Natarajan told HT. âThe industry is very transparent.â The global union does not agree.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Now commies will kill IT in India.
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A group of top officials from the global union is scheduled to arrive in New Delhi on December 5 to meet Nasscom officials and Indian ministers to talk about how best the sector can safeguard employee's interests. After these discussions, office bearers of the Indian union will tour the country, talking to company managements about alternatives to firing employees.
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The Indian union, which has about 15,000 members from top firms such as IBM and Infosys, estimates that firms in the sector have axed 10,000 jobs in the past three months. The Indian union may, however, be defying a long-standing diktat by the industry's umbrella body, the National Association of Software and Service Companies, or Nasscom, that IT professionals must not get involved in trade unionism.
âWe donât need intermediaries,â Ganesh Natarajan told HT. âThe industry is very transparent.â The global union does not agree.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Now commies will kill IT in India.