Does the IT industry need a trade union?

[Guru prasath]

Does the IT industry need a trade union? A rediff article.

Does India's booming information technology and information technology-enabled services (IT/ITES) industry, which employs almost one million professionals, require a trade union to fight for its rights?

http://in.rediff.com/money/2005/oct/06bspec.htm

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Guru prasath

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Interesting article and solid response from the leaders of IT Sector.
Ofcourse trade unions are those who talk about collective bargains, but
who is benefitting out of such bargains is a big questions. When i was
in my college i was a member of SUFI - a part of communist wing. All
the trade unions, invariable of which party they are leaning, are
constituted for fighting for the rights of its member, bargains are
often made on the name of the community and the benefit reaches the
pocket of the person/persons who heads that wing of the trade union.

Some serious impact was made in the recent concluded strike by the air
staff across the nation,West bengal virtually stood still, do any one
of us will feel good about it?.This is not collective bargain, this act
shows the threating nature of the trade wing posing the centre
government by scape goating the common man.

IT industry is a professional area and many of us grown enough to raise
our greivances to the adminstration. Third party intervention will
facilitate the trade wings to flourish themselves and put the community
to nasty state. I am a private lancer in IT industry, but looking the
developments made in job sector, in my opinion the employers looks
relatively good ,catering the needs of their respective employees.

Thyagarajan shanmugham

[Toufeeq Hussain]

Hi,

Yes it does.
Maybe not a trade union, but a regulatory board which can overlook the work done at all IT firms.A regulatory body which should standarize the compensation benefits doled out to Engineers.Currently, you find one IT firm paying out an amount in lakhs/month(MS) and another which does not even pay 1lakh/year. This disparity among intellectuals should not exist, atleast not by such a huge margin.

-toufeeq

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