![Union And Govt Paint Different Pictures of Wistron Violence](https://i0.wp.com/vivekvsp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/RichardLee-Unsplash-750.jpg?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
After I published my blog ‘The Anatomy of Wistron Workers’ Violence’. I received this document. It is the report submitted to The Chief Minister of…
![The Anatomy of Wistron Workers’ Violence](https://i0.wp.com/vivekvsp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/WistronColour.png?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
The Press has extensively reported the violence at Wistron. It points to a big malaise about the way work is organised and compensated. Let us…
!['Rotten' Shows That Slavery Is Everywhere](https://i0.wp.com/vivekvsp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Rotten.png?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
It is important to watch the documentary ‘Rotten’ on Netflix to understand how people prove Galbraith’s acute observation: ‘Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism,…
![Shramik Ekta Mahasangh Files PIL to Challenge NEEM](https://i0.wp.com/vivekvsp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Exploitation2.jpg?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
Shramik Ekta Mahasangh finally woke up to challenge the exploitative scheme NEEM [National Employability Enhancement Mission] by filing a public interest litigation. It was coming,…
![When I Met Karl Marx and Narayan Surve](https://i0.wp.com/vivekvsp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Marx2.jpg?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
“Hello” Lulu, my parrot called. He hopped on to my study table as I nodded and acknowledged. “What’s the matter? I called you twice, you…
![Govindkaka's Psychological Contract With Contract Workers](https://i0.wp.com/vivekvsp.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/SRK-Canteen.jpg?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
Sometimes you search for a valuable thing and give up all hope of finding it. Then comes a surprise – you suddenly discover that it…
![Maharashtra Government Outsources Thinking to Rajasthan](https://i0.wp.com/vivekvsp.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Contract_workers.jpg?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
The Maharashtra Government has amended the Contract Labour Act, presumably as a part of labour law reforms. But it appears to have outsourced thinking to…
![234 Contract Workers Get Permanent Jobs](https://i0.wp.com/vivekvsp.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/638-1212016151747841_1422534219.png?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
AAK Kamani P Ltd has recently given 234 contract workers in permanent job. This is an unusual agreement! This agreement comes at a time when…
![NEEM Does Not Redeem Confidence](https://i0.wp.com/vivekvsp.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Industry-Labour.png?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
The weight of experience is not easy to shrug off. Actually it is just impossible to do it. We learn this again and yet again….