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.