Fired workers burn Indian executive to death

Wow, these people really mean business! Imagine if this sort of thing happened in the United States; the current double-digit unemployment rate would topple down to less than 1%!

While obviously this is quite radical to say the least, there is little doubt that the American worker and the average American citizen has become too passive and complacent. The financial well-being and quality of life for most U.S. citizens has been going steadily downhill for years now as taxes, the increased cost of material goods and services, as well as unemployment has taken its toll on the overwhelming majority of the population in this country. Even so, the American public doesn’t seem to care. Americans are more interested in who the new Teen Idol will be and texting their friends with their little idiot-boxes than standing up for their rights and trying to make a difference in their lives.

Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press

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.