“The entire issue has been blown out of proportion by the media and made to look as if I’m against trade unions. Let me say this, I am not anti-union. I hail from Milwaukee, a town in the United States where companies like Harley Davidson are headquartered and I grew up watching labourers making their way to and from the factories. I respect labour,” Udaipur-based artist Waswo X. Waswo told The Hindu over phone from Bangkok.
Earlier this month, a YouTube video showing him smashing up parts of an art work, exhibited at Mattancherry in west Kochi alongside the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, in protest against demand of excessive wages by workers set off widespread uproar against labour outfits in Kerala.
