NEW DELHI -- When workers at an Apple supplier's plant in southern India ransacked the facility earlier this month, they did more than cause millions of dollars in damage. They also raised the specter of India as a country in the grip of powerful trade unions.
It is not an image that squares well with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's push to turn the country into a manufacturing powerhouse. Modi wants global companies to consider India as an alternative to China for at least some of their supply chains, especially given the chronic trade tensions between Washington and Beijing.
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