Click to play videoDelhi: The Relationship between the management and factory workers of companies has been historically tense in India. The Violence at the Honda factory and more recently the Graziano plant have been seen as on-offs.
But in a sluggish economy, Tata Motors is already implementing forced leave and salary cuts on its Jamshedpur plant workers.
Prince and Happy are getting lessons at home as the school fee has not been paid for three months. Their mother is finding it hard to pay the room rent of rupees 2,500. Their father was one of the sacked employees of Graziano, currently in jail on charges of murder of his CEO.
Aasha isn't proud of what her husband was involved in, but says the condition of the household had become bad ever since he was laid off six months ago.
"It's been five to six months that we have been suffering here relatives are helping us as of now. But how long will this continue," says Asha.
Graziano so far is a one-off. Experts say the current economic slowdown has not much affected the manufacturing units; it’s the service sector that's been hit harder. But if the situation spirals into a full fledged downturn-the already tense worker-employer relationship among scores of factories could be tested further.
"We may not see it with so much frequency the simmering anger will become more acute, tension level is rising and overall work relationship is becoming more angrier where for the huge majority there has been very little improvement,” says labour economist, Praween Jha.
For most blue collared employees like Janardhan a former textile worker earning a daily living is more a battle of survival. An active member of a labour organisation in Noida, Janardhan is hunting for a job these days. Jobless for a month now he knows he needs at least rupees 3,000 a month to run his family of two.
"We should at least earn to fill our tummies," says Janardhan.
Sacked employees of Jet Airways voiced their anger and got their jobs back but it isn’t easy at this end falling at the lowest rung of the order, if they are hit -the fear is that they may hit back.
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