Air traffic controllers in Ireland have voted for 24-hour strikes this Thursday after several weeks of unofficial overtime ban. The strike, organised by the Balpa union, is likely to ground flights at all three airports.

The strike which involved most of Mumbai's 55,000 taxi drivers was called off after two hours, after ministers made assurances over security. State home secretary Chitkala Zutshi also attempted to downplay the violence: "All miscreants will be dealt with severely. We mean to maintain law and order.

Lionbridge specializes in translations and adapting products to local markets (so called “globalization services”). Lionbridge is one of many US-based companies which move jobs from the US to countries with lower wages and working standards.

Under pressure from the Maoists, the government has finally declared that Nepal will become a republic. For several months the political process towards elections has been stalled in Nepal.

The death, ironically, came at a time when the port trust is observing a ‘Dock Safety Week’.

Indiaenews.com reported that employees of Indian airlines went on a snap strike over pay with union chiefs vowing to continue the stir until their demands are met.

Across the country, the industrial action crippled air services, forcing passengers to either cancel their flights or sweat it out - in blistering heat in some cities - waiting for a delayed departure.

Gurgaon Workers News - Newsletter 2 (April 2007)
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Violence erupted when some 4000 police and paramilitary police tried to evict protesters from the village of Nandigram and it's surroundings and to destroy the barricades the villagers had erected to prevent the arrival of state contractors.

One of the five registered trade unions at the company engaged in an unannounced stoppage and disrupted normal operations at the company's Uttarpara Plant on March 12 2007.

Chennai online reported that with talks to find a solution to the demand for increase in stitching charges remaining inconclusive, the strike by job working units for domestic innerwear brands in nearby Tirupur entered the seventh day today.

The text looks at the composition of foreign workers in Indian call centres and documents interviews with workers from international companies such as HP or Citibank which relocated call centre work to the industrial outskirts of Delhi.

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Public transport has been paralysed and all flights cancelled, as well as most trains, banks and businesses are also closed. The streets are reportedly deserted of traffic while thousands of armed police have been deployed. Thousands of people also rallied in the Indian capital Dehli in support of the strike.

India’s technology industry, which has been merrily soaking up jobs from higher-cost countries, got a little shock last week when it had its first brush with organized labor.

Mahatma Gandhi is often cited by pacifists as the shining example of how non-violent civil disobedience works successfully. Unfortunately, these paeans of praise leave out a close study of Gandhi’s role in the Indian struggle for ‘independence’, and just as importantly, who were his class allies in that struggle.

An analysis of the struggles by workers in Faridabad and of the involvement of the Kamunist Kranti.

In Dindigul they picketed roads at 11 places, demanding issue of house pattas to the poor and downtrodden. They picketed roads in Nilakottai, Sempatti, Iayyalur, Eriyode, Dindigul, Natham, Gopalpatti, Oddanchatram, Sri Rampuram, Kodaikanal and Gujiliamparai.

Roopacherra tea estate in South Assam has been under lockout for nearly month after the executives abandoned it. Leading to the death of a three-year-old girl, Shivani Kalindi and two workers, Yogendra Kalindi, 22, and Manorama Dev, 60, according the workers' panchayat (council). Shivani had been taken to the garden hospital on Tuesday evening, but no doctor was available.

Roopacherra tea estate in South Assam has been under lockout for nearly month after the executives abandoned it. Leading to the death of a three-year-old girl, Shivani Kalindi and two workers, Yogendra Kalindi, 22, and Manorama Dev, 60, according the workers' panchayat (council). Shivani had been taken to the garden hospital on Tuesday evening, but no doctor was available.

The demands include re-instating suspended and sacked employees. The hunger strikes are to being in a staggered way, then continue indefinitely.

A company official told Business Line, a financial news service that no decision has been taken on whether such a deed will attract disciplinary action.

"We are watching the situation," he said.