Unions need to think jobs, not just wages

Toyota Kirloskar Motor Ltd may or may not be running its plant with contract workers and apprentices, the way the unions are alleging, but it may want to look at what fellow Japanese firm Suzuki did when faced with a similar labour unrest in 2000. Maruti Suzuki simply asked its vendors to lend it their workers—along with these workers, its own engineers and contract workers, Maruti managed to produce the same number of cars and even got the JD Power customer satisfaction award for that year, demonstrating that the full-time workers could, if need be, replaced without too much a problem.

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