TATA JAGUAR: Privilege versus the dignity of labour.

It would appear that this monopoly looks upon its workforce as a burden rather than an asset. Its actions, apparently to gorge itself on the wealth created from its production process, are at best naïve but at worst arrogant. To look upon the workforce as a “Cost of Production” is not only an opaque observation but economically disinformed. We say this because it is a lie to indicate that labour is a cost when it is the opposite, it is a value and the only part of production that can add value. With the logic of feudal lords, TATA Jaguar, squirm at this “burden” called workers that they have to “carry” out of necessity. This medieval notion of ownership of labour is an affront to the dignity of labour. Property rights do not extend to labour. They do not own us or our labour. They think that they can extend our working week to include compulsory overtime on Saturdays; they expect it to be accepted without question. The owners want another vote and they want to be able to influence that vote. That is why they condemn “subversives” in other words workers with views or minds of their own. These owners do not even pay us fully for the time we are here, but take away some of the added value from us and fill their own pockets. Who then is the real cost to production? Is it the ones who produce added value or those that do not produce anything? These make believe aristocrats believe that we should bow to their owner status and give up our dignity. They operate on the basis of ownership of body and soul in the make believe world of total subservience.
“You cannot think differently, you cannot say anything that contradicts our eternal truth that you are a burden to us. Production is ours and your lives are ours up to the point that you cannot use your mobile phones to photograph yourself and your workmates at work because this is subversive behaviour and we will witch hunt those that do. Our inquisition starts here against the heretics who have a different point of view.”
Workers at Jaguar do have dignity and their skills, which they own, will remain their own. Workers have established, over centuries that the working week and working day has been reduced to comply with their own well being and development as human beings. It is a fact that reduced working time improves education, skill and culture. It leads to improved production techniques, economic improvement in social production with higher quantity and quality of manufacture. Any worker and union organisation knows these things and can prove them. No modern worker is going to allow the clock to be easily turned back. No worker is going to allow the witch hunt to ensue when it knows that its freedom is at stake when Gestapo methods are used on the shop floor to police the point of production. People are aware of the fascist methods used in the slavery conditions utilised in Nazi Germany. Property rights of the Tata monopoly do not extend to workers becoming property. The point of production where workers command and labour itself belongs to the workers and workers will not permit the so called monopoly right of the owners to overrule workers basic rights concerning the conditions of labour. The dignity of labour will not only restrict monopoly right but will trump it.