All Hail NAG – The Jet Pilot Union.

Jet Airways, India’s largest private airline service probably has been the first to get hit for the corporate atrocities. Earlier this week Jet Air ways has laid off two pilots allegedly for forming a Union, though no official reason has been stated. It has been a new corporate culture to give pink slips to employees just on email with no prior notification, giving no reason for termination. The National Aviation Guild, the newly formed Jet Pilots union went on a mass sick leave following the termination of their colleagues. I would really appreciate the courage and patience shown by the pilots in fighting the corporate culture of the day.

The corporate sector in India is in peaks of labor exploitation, I shall here name several IT companies operating in India, who openly violate the labor laws of the land, asking their employees to work on Saturdays and Sundays and even on national holidays with out compensating any the additional work days of the employees. Associates are made to work at the peer pressure for more than eight, to a pitiable eighteen hours a day to bring down the labor cost and to maximize the profits of the company. The pity here is the law being violated by Indian players rather then the foreign ones in the industry. To the viewer outside, the IT Job or in fact any other corporate job means lavish life with only earning fat packages and irresponsible spending. But in reality most corporate employees earn a pay check less than 4Lakh per annum, sensing the horrors of the day to day corporate life complying with loads and loads of pressure from the peers, who in turn suffer from their. The chain ends at only the board of directors.

Amidst this chaos in the working class of the day, I shall term the first flag of union hoisted by Jet Pilots is definitely a courageous step towards a change in the attitude of the corporate. When companies let employees resign with only a notice more than a month prior, the same needs to be applied in converse also. The companies should notify their employees sufficiently prior before termination. It’s not just an email that should carry the message.

The laws of the land have also been unjust to the corporate employed people, leaving them no option to form a union by distancing them from the term working class that is vested in with a right to do so. The court calling the union of jet pilots illegal has been extremely unjust on the part of all the corporate workers. The definitions need to be broadened and redefined to include several other exploited employees in working class, providing them a right to form a union and fight against the exploitation of the day.

The government should itself change its way calling employees of the country as resources. The government and corporate sector should realize that humans are no natural resources like iron and coal to be exploited. The term resource it self has a right to be exploited and so be banned from usage. The new style of corporate should emerge with a respect to the emotions of the employees, recognizing them human rather than office operating modern robos.

To Sir With Love.. A tribute to YS Rajshekar Reddy

The most shocking and disappointing news to the people of AP and India came this morning as the death of beloved CM Andhra. Dear YS, though we had an ideological differences, sir our thoughts found a confluence in the welfare of people.

Of all the CMs who ruled India, Sir, you are the only one who really deserves to be knighted. Sir, who else in India could have dared to introduce welfare programs in the mass scale as u did. There was no CM in past to who cared so much for the health of people. May be it being a doctor personally that got your attention towards the health of people. Sir, people in lakhs were benefited by the health insurance scheme given by you. Sir you were the first to introduce the 108 service for the emergency health care to the needy.

Sir, I saw a CM by name NT Rama Rao who gave 2 Rs Kg rice in 1980 when rice was 10 Rs Kg in market. But Sir, even when the price of rice went sky rocketing at 40 Rs you filled the stomach of the poor common man of AP. Sir, you were the one who gave pensions to old, and you were the one who gave free power to irrigation purpose. Sir, it was only you who gave the fee waiver to the economically backward sections of society. You were the only CM who built houses for the under privileged and attempted to build houses to the middle class. Sir, you were the only one who cared no critics to implement what you believed is welfare to people.

Sir, there have been people who criticized you giving free perks to people. I also acknowledge the misuse of the schemes. But Sir, all your schemes intended not to lure people with perks, but meet the basic needs of poor and unprivileged. Sir, no country is called developed for the technological advancement alone, when half the population lacks the basic health needs, and is not able to feed one third of population. Sir, you were the one who laid the bricks to the progress of India as a developed country.

Long long ago, Sir I heard that there ruled a king by name Ashoka, who loved his people and dedicated his life for their welfare. The legendry king was praised “Deva naam piya (priya in Sanskrit)”, beloved of Gods. Sir, I know not if he was really loved by Gods, but Sir you are the one who is truly loved by his people and forever you live eternally in our hearts as the Ashoka of modern day.

May your soul rest in peace.