Mme job. I will have to search employment.
After completing my post-graduation, my first job came into existence became of Naioaalleation of Life Insurance business by the government in 1956. I had opportunity to see the working of the Government Organisations and minds shaped in the government tradition. I tried to start a Marathi Vangmaya Mandala in LIC 9Life Insurance Corporation of India) with permission of my seniors. They possibly smelled a rat and thought I was starting a Union of the employees. They duly tefused permission.
Later I joined Sydenham College as an Assistant lecturer. I turned my attention to Private sector job later, only in 1963. At that time there Was a proposal to start an informal Union of Gazetted Officers’. The idea was to make printed individual applications for raise in salaries, since any joint application by government employees was tantamount to Mutiny by government Servants. I remember that I had signed one such application. After 1964 Government servants started to form their unions and followed the standard union practices. I left my job in the Sydenham College in 1964 and joined Unichem Laboratories Limited as a Company Secretary and started working as a senior Manager. I have narrated all this only to explain that even subsequently I have had no personal experience as a Union Member nor have felt as a worker at any stage in my working life.
Once I became a senior company officer I was automatically labelled as a ‘lackey of capitalists’ in the union parlance. I have continuously worked on the side of ‘Haves’ and became representative of the Establishment according to this perception. I was a ‘non-progressive’ in the view of the Unions and remained so for thirty years until the end of my employment. Then I became a Director of a company and became a Capitalist proper. Today all these terms have vanished from the discourse of labour-management relations. I had during my career with Unichem Laboratories worked as Company Secretary, Financial Controller, Resident Manager and un-designated Human Resource Development Manager. I was in a position to interact with several types of people and several groups of people. Founder of Unichem, Padmabhushan Amrut Vithaldas Mody, kept me firmly in the habit of reading books. He kept me studying all the time, As a representative of the Company, I attended all the courts up to Supreme Court of India, appeared before government committees and Commissions, and Employers’ Organisations, challenged government decisions, fought litigations initiated by Public Interest NGOs financed by
international organisations including Roman Catholic Church. Be this multifaceted work experience I had to kee eed
u Pp thinking in new ways every time. I came to see real motivations of public leaders in their fe colours. I always functioned as General Manager though my title was
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