New York StrikeThis post is inspired by the recent New York transit workers’ strike.



You may be forced to think that Workers’ power is back. Conventional wisdom says that during these times of intense competition wrought by globalization, the power to stop work at will is an anomaly. The New York Strike was a different case since it affected public well-being in literal sense. And you can’t blame the trasit workers as New York can be a pricey place to live in.



As a rule, strikes in nutility and health sectors are immoral. I know, itis a hard thing to say but that is fact.



A quick survey about strikes in some industries and economies:



Autoworkers in the United States have less incentive to strike as their jobs are on the line. Both Ford and GM are chopping their workforce.



The Airlines workers still have to come to terms that working in the Air Travel industry no longer carries that cachet of exclusivity. They are working in just another blue-collar service industry. Low-cost carriers and rising fuel costs have seen to that. If they strike now, they will only bring the airline down.



Take most of the IT-services and call center jobs which are going to India. The pay might be okay by Indian standards, but you often hear about ‘roman-galley’ work conditions. And then, you hear the dreaded ’strike’ word. Here, strike is considered a birth-right duly given to us by the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi. Either, the BPO companies will have choose the right balance between getting rich and lasting long or soon they might face big problems in an economy run by a government by the communists. Strikes in India may also bring the booming economy down a notch or two.