“We are not corporate slaves”: Indian tech workers fight for dignity : Peoples Dispatch

"Fearing job loss, employees work longer hours for no additional pay, allowing employers to slash even more of the workforce."

Ugh.

The most egregious example is the Larsen and Toubro India Head who asked for NINETY HOUR work weeks and said that he felt sad that he couldn't make his workers work that long legally.

Funny thing, not only the company defended him (and his crass remarks associated with it), he also earned, I think, INR 50 Crore whilst a new guy at his company will get ~5 Lakh per annum. Since 100 lakh=1crore (Yes, Indian conversion system are slightly different than million and billions), the CEO nets in 1000x that of its lowest earner. If there ever was a picture of evil, then this person is.

And you can't even point to any specific political party as such since except for Communist Party Of India(Marxist) perhaps, none take this issue seriously. (India has a gamut of parties from regional to national level). Part of the blame does goes to the voter base as well ultimately since the reason this isn't a topic in India's Parliament is because outside of the urban masses (and even then for many it was secondary issue to others), others don't see this as part and parcel of their future.

US slaves would be more expensive

Good for these Indian workers.

I feel sorry for offshore collegues in a third party we use, the ydeal with terrible working conditions, huge commutes, very noisy offices, and yeah long working hours. Working from home was great for them imo and now rescinded so we have to try and hear them over all their shouty collegues

My company outsourced most of the engineering team to India. It’s been an absolutely PAIN because communication is much more difficult. Nevertheless I feel so sorry for them because they do seem to work longer hours than us and I’ve seen the same person dealing with a handful of requests as when previously it was spread amongst the EU/US counterparts. I cant wait to leave this shit show.

Solidarity to workers around the world. Everyone deserves a good living wage and good treatment. Glad to hear it from India.

I am glad the US has it's hands full right now.

Good hopefully they can establish a place for themselves so that their labor can't be taken advantage of by American companies as well and that forces American companies to actually relent on punishing American tech workers and trying to force down their wages.

Fantastic to see workers sticking up for themselves on the other side of the world. An international labour movement is possible and would be a huge force for good in the world.

They are the backbone of most corporate IT departments. If they all went on strike they’d get what they wanted. Corporations would never pay US salaries to fill all their positions.

It's India. For every protestor, there's 5 people applying for his job already.

We're all slaves to the billionaires under capitalism. It is a slightly more ethical type of slavery, but ultimately we still do the bidding of the wealthy and we sacrifice the best years of our lives to build their financial empires