[Reader-list] Michael Aram Exports workers' struggle: good news

[Prashant Pandey]

Great job

On 1/31/06, mahmood farooqui <mahmood.farooqui at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Shankar and Jeebesh,
>
>
> There are many ways one could begin to respond to the happy ending of
> the workers' struggle.
>
> As a real life Swades, with Shankar arriving here as an academic,
> getting radicalised with and by the workers and fighting along side to
> win this settlement.
>
> As a post-historic comment on the unresolved dead-end in Aaghaat,
> Goving Nihalani's offering about how to lead a workers' struggle in a
> third world country where violence is a norm when inflicted upon the
> workers and an aberration when committed by the workers.
>
> As a glorious affirmation to the mail Jeebsh wrote, a mail which one
> can call admonitory if not chastising, on the occasion of the whole
> world and myself running to town about the police beating workers in
> Gurgaon, a few months ago.
>
> As a unique triumph of a strategy of protest and resistance, conceived
> and put into practice by a genuine collective in which the bourgeois
> organiser and the toiling worker merge their roles into each other.
>
> As one of the very few instances of justice being earned by the
> workers in this our belighted land.
>
> The workers's victory may consign them back to the hell that was their
> working condition, as Shankar had pointed out in his photographic
> essay in Tehelka, but it is not an end of their journey.
>
> I could say more but there is hardly any point in getting
> sentimental-perhaps it is time for us to hear what the victors have to
> say about it all...
>
> Chalte raho saathi, doobte suraj ko raah dikhaane ke liye, taaki use
> palatne ki raah mil sake...
>
> Mahmood
>
>
> On 30/01/06, Jeebesh Bagchi <jeebesh at sarai.net> wrote:
> > Dear friends,
> >
> > I am very happy to inform you that the twenty Michael
> > Aram Exports workers along with Ramdev's widow, Shibu
> > Devi, were appointed this week as permanent employees
> > of Michael Aram's new, operational company, MA Design
> > India Private Limited, Okhla Industrial Area Phase I.
> > They received appointment letters in hand, along with
> > back wages, bonuses, dearness allowance arrears, and
> > other due payments, on January 25, 2006.
> >
> > Michael Aram is seeking to put these workers back to
> > work ideally within a revitalized version of their
> > former unit, B156, or else at a proximate and as yet
> > undetermined factory site.  Please check
> > www.justiceforworkers.org for updates on this
> > transition process.
> >
> > May I express my deep thanks to all of you for your
> > advice, empathy, support, and encouragement throughout
> > this struggle.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Shankar Ramaswami
> > Ph.D. Candidate
> > University of Chicago
> >
> > Justice for Workers
> > www.justiceforworkers.org
> >
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