One of the tasks of the Left, together with their union comrades, will be to temper the reform speed of a coalition led by the Congress, the original reformers. "They will slow down a particular kind of reform and regulate the capital market to prevent flight of capital," feels Kamal M. Chenoy, professor at jnu. The unions’ wish list is as much about what they don’t want as it is about what they want. They won’t allow the amendment of labour laws to allow easy hire and fire, oppose privatisation of profit-making PSUs and worker retrenchment in the name of VRS, as well as a cut in EPF rates. They blame the NDA for ruinously reducing the size of the organised workforce from around six crore in 1993 to only 2.81 crore in 2004. They will push for alternate employment for the unorganised labour force which has been worst hit by the reforms and demand that 3 per cent of the GDP be used for their welfare.