[lbo-talk] direct action

Peter Fay peterrfay at gmail.com
Mon Mar 7 11:45:52 PST 2011


So as an economist, would this be considered an 'asset' that depreciated? After all, some amount of wear and tear on managers is bound to occur during the production process...

-pf

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> [don't know the source, but reliable...]
>
> Radhey Shyam Roy, Indian Executive Burned To Death By Fired Workers
>
> BHUBANESHWAR, India — Indian police detained two people after an angry mob
> of fired workers burned to death a senior executive of a steel factory, an
> official said Friday.
>
> After learning they were laid off, about a dozen workers attacked a vehicle
> carrying Radhey Shyam Roy as he was leaving the factory in eastern Orissa
> state on Thursday, dousing the Jeep with gasoline and setting it on fire,
> said police Superintendent Ajay Kumar Sarangi.
> Two other people in the vehicle were allowed to flee but Roy, 59, was
> trapped inside and later died of severe burns, Sarangi said.
> Police were questioning two workers and their formal arrest on murder
> charges was likely, Sarangi told The Associated Press. The steel factory is
> in Bolangir district, nearly 250 miles (400 kilometers) west of
> Bhubaneshwar, the capital of Orissa state.
> Incidents of industrial violence are common in India, where workers often
> target executives in cases of wage disputes and job losses.
> In 2008, scores of dismissed employees of an Italian manufacturing company,
> Graziano Transmissioni India, used iron rods and wooden sticks to beat to
> death the company's local chief executive officer on the outskirts of New
> Delhi.
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