Organized labour has been on the back foot for a long time, of course. Organized labour is subject to terrific problems of political fragmentation. Nonetheless, it has been sufficiently powerful to have prevented government, over the last decade and more, from acting on the advice given by so many economists that India should liberalize labour markets, and the labour movement has been able to hold back changes in the legislation. It's a sign that it's not a completely toothless body. But in spite of that, the big development of the last decade is the tremendous increase in the employment of contract labour—in organized, formal sector companies—contract labour that is often employed through guys who are effectively like Mafia bosses. People employed in that way have virtually no rights at all.
Labour rights are certainly always in question. The courts have sometimes judged very strongly in favour of labour rights. I'm talking of the Supreme Court and of the high courts in the states, but sometimes they have made judgments that have really infringed upon labour rights, so it's a very contested field.