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Not really getting reported in the UK.
India General Strike 2019
Anyone follow Indian politics? Does this have legs?
India General Strike 2019
Anyone follow Indian politics? Does this have legs?
General strike in India, 150million on strike
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Bangladesh garment workers clash with police as strikes roll on
Not connected but concurrently in neighbouring Bangladesh.......
Not connected but concurrently in neighbouring Bangladesh.......
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Slightly better context here
MR Online | Why are 200 million workers on strike in India?
MR Online | Why are 200 million workers on strike in India?
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supposeldy 180k came out in 2016....some say 200k are out across the two days...i dont think you can really count. Biggest strike in history? Out of 520 million Indian workers supposedly.
Main thing is seeing how well supported the unions are.
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Vijay Prashad Here’s What a Real Strike Looks Like: 150 Million Say No to Despotism in India
Sounds as if sucessive government attempts at union-breaking is close to the heart of whats going:
"The government, since 1991, knew that it was not enough to privatize the public sector and to sell off precious public assets to private hands. It had to do two more things. First, it had to make sure that public sector enterprises would fail and would then lose legitimacy. The government starved these public sector firms of funds and watched them swing in the wind. Without investment, these firms were unable to make improvements and so began to deteriorate. Their demise validated the argument of liberalization, although their demise had been manufactured by an investment strike.
Second, the government pushed to break trade union power by using the courts to undermine the right to strike and by using the legislature to amend the trade union laws. Weaker unions would mean demoralized workers, which would mean that workers would now be utterly at the mercy of the private firms.
This strike, like the 17 before it, is about livelihood issues and about the right to strike. A new trade union law sits in the legislature. It would mean the death of trade unionism in India."
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It seems that getting such massive numbers out in India is not such an unusal thing - the question is how effective has it been/will be? My impression is (based on a just a few articles that dont address the question directly) not that much really.
Sounds as if sucessive government attempts at union-breaking is close to the heart of whats going:
"The government, since 1991, knew that it was not enough to privatize the public sector and to sell off precious public assets to private hands. It had to do two more things. First, it had to make sure that public sector enterprises would fail and would then lose legitimacy. The government starved these public sector firms of funds and watched them swing in the wind. Without investment, these firms were unable to make improvements and so began to deteriorate. Their demise validated the argument of liberalization, although their demise had been manufactured by an investment strike.
Second, the government pushed to break trade union power by using the courts to undermine the right to strike and by using the legislature to amend the trade union laws. Weaker unions would mean demoralized workers, which would mean that workers would now be utterly at the mercy of the private firms.
This strike, like the 17 before it, is about livelihood issues and about the right to strike. A new trade union law sits in the legislature. It would mean the death of trade unionism in India."
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It seems that getting such massive numbers out in India is not such an unusal thing - the question is how effective has it been/will be? My impression is (based on a just a few articles that dont address the question directly) not that much really.
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