| Even
as the Call Center/ BPO (ITES in Short!)
has made people wealthy in some sections
of the middle-class around India &
we have progressed economically, the employees
are oppressed and extracted. Employees
have over the years suffered a major setback
in their quest for economic development,
social status and real independence. There
has also been a significant and steady
erosion of a large portion of the employee
base that have either quit in disgust
or frustration that managements have bought
on them. This trend is taking firmer root
as the globalization process accelerates
and becomes all-pervasive.
The mainstream paradigms
of development are in serious crisis.
In this period most people have little
desire to return to the state-assisted
protectionist, communist or socialist
regimes, whose promotion of growth and
attainment of economic sovereignty were
accompanied, in most cases, by economic
inequalities, inefficiency, corruption
and ecological degradation. Yet, radical
"free-market" economic policies
and experimentation with structural adjustment
lending by the International Monetary
Fund (IMF) and the World Bank have crippled
the state as an agent of development and
protector of the community from the vagapoverty-reducing,
equitable and sustainable paradigm alternatives
that advance the interests of employees
are marginalized s around the world, but
especially in the Indian context.
UNITES aims to consciously
and consistently articulate, link and
develop greater coherence between local
community-based and national, regional
and global paradigms of change. UNITES
strives to create a distinct and cogent
link between employers & employees
at all levels. |