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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 14:15:38 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: [mayday2k] Re: [mayday2k} strike wave in India
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I thought this sounded important
CJ
Urgent: Massive strike wave in India
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In the last week alone, LabourStart has featured
nearly twenty news
reports from India as strikes spread across the
country. Power workers
have plunged one state (Uttar Pradesh) into darkness
in their battle
against privatization and the response of the
government has been to
sack
workers, arrest union leaders and send in troops.
Meanwhile 100,000
port
workers have effectively shut down India's shipping
and government
workers, doctors and others have joined in the
strikes. This is a huge
setback to the government's plans for "reform" --
meaning compliance
with
the World Bank/IMF/WTO neo-liberal agenda.
Our coverage comes from both mainstream news sources
such as BBC and
CNN
but also from our correspondent in the field, L. V.
Subramaniam, a
veteran
journalist and trade unionist. He has been filing
daily reports which
give a feel for what is going on.
Full coverage of these tremendous developments can be
found on our new
Indian labour news page --
http://www.labourstart.org/india/ .
At the present time, we have received no appeals for
help from the
Indian
unions, and there have been none on the websites of
the International
Confederation of Free Trade Unions nor on those of the
International
Trade
Secretariats.
We expect that there will soon be requests to call
upon the Indian
government to stop all repression and to release the
imprisoned trade
unionists. We'll keep you informed on LabourStart and
through this
mailing list.
Eric Lee
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