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Downsizing manpower a major problem in country: Pandhe

Staff Reporter

PATHANAMTHITTA: Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) president M.K. Pandhe has said that downsizing manpower has become a slogan in the globalised world, and this is a major problem faced by India and other developing countries today.

Inaugurating the 43rd annual state meeting of the Kerala NGO Union in Adoor on Sunday, Dr. Pandhe said the working class was under severe attack by capitalist forces in the globalised scenario.

"We are not opposed to globalisation. But globalisation today is a pro-capitalist phenomenon, which is nothing but financial globalisation. What we want is social globalisation which could bring forth global equality," he said. He alleged that capitalist population comprising 20 per cent of the world population was pocketing the world income, and this was a horrible face of the financial globalisation. Globalisation had miserably failed to bring in any human development, which meant right to work, right to social security and so on.

He said it was sad that every time Government employees had to strike work or wage agitations to get their wages revised. Seven lakh industrial units in the country were sick and the Common Minimum Programme had promised that the United Progressive Alliance Government would extend assistance to revive these sick units. But the Government had taken no effective step, so far, in this regard.

Dr. Pandhe said that the trade union movement in the country was facing the problem of `wage freeze,' which had almost become an international problem. Employees were regularly being thrown out of companies to replace them with low-paid employees, and this had become a common phenomenon in the globalised world, he added.

Re-elected

V.M. Pavithran and C.H. Ashokan were re-elected president and general secretary, respectively, of the union at its State council meeting held earlier.

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