India
GurgaonWorkersNews no.21 – November 2009
Workers group's newsletter from India's special export zone, with workplace reports from the area and detailed coverage of the huge strikes of auto workers in October-November 2009.
GurgaonWorkersNews no.21 – November 2009
November 4, 2009
(Automobile Workers Strike – 20th of October 2009)
Gurgaon Workers News – Newsletter 21 (November 2009)
Questions for alternatives - Kamunist Kranti
A selection of texts by Kamunist Kranti on work, and its domination over all aspects of human life
Introduction
What follow are pieces from our monthly Hindi language publication Faridabad Majdoor Samachar.
Mutiny in the RAF: the air force strikes of 1946 - David Duncan
Book documenting a 1946 series of strikes in the British Air Force that spread across much of the British Empire.
Published in the Socialist History Society Occasional Papers Series: No 8, 1998. Taken from the No War But The Class War website.
Indian car workers strike at Hyundai
Workers at Hyundai Motor India Limited (HMIL) have taken strike action in protest of gross trade union rights violations and the company's refusal to enter collective bargaining with the union.
More than 1300 workers went on indefinite strike on April 20 after management at Hyundai Motor India Limited (HMIL), located in Chennai, India, refused to negotiate contract demands with the Hyundai Motor India Employees' Union (HMIEU).
Death sparks building worker riot in Delhi
After a fatal accident on the Commonwealth Games construction site more than thousand building workers destroyed company offices, cars and trucks.
The aggravating global crisis imposes a new social frame-work for incidents like this: the daily deaths and legal murders become explosive.
The cops shooting a fifteen year old became the trigger of social unrest in Greece, the fatal accident of a building worker sparked the simmering unrest.
Protests across Indian economy
More labour unrest in India as construction, education and mining workers step up fight for improved conditions.
A section of Mine-I employees of Neyveli Lignite Corporation staged a stay-in strike on Saturday demanding the continuation of pick-up service or a raise in conveyance allowance.
The NLC management suspended Arumugham, area vice-president of the Labour Progressive Front, and served a charge memo on Haridas, another functionary.
Gurgaon Workers News No.13 - October 2008
Wildcat strikes and repression in the Special Economic Zone of Gurgaon.
Gurgaon Workers News - Newsletter 13 (October 2008)
100,000 Bollywood workers on strike
Workers in India's film industry have been the latest to join in the recent strike wave spreading the country.
More than 100,000 Bollywood actors, technicians and cameramen have gone on strike for better pay and working hours, halting dozens of movies and television productions.
800,000 bank workers on strike in India
More than 800,000 bank employees from 50,000 branches across India started a two-day strike Wednesday to oppose privatisation, merger and acquisition of state-owned banks.
Reports from Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Orissa and Jammu and Kashmir said the strike was total.
Nationwide general strike in India
The nationwide general strike in India has affected West Bengal, Kerala and Tripura almost completely and other States partially with industrial establishments remaining closed across the country and the functioning of the public sector banks was hit at most places.
“The strike was spontaneous with eight crore people participating in it. It is an expression of deep indignation of the masses against the pernicious economic and labour policies of the United Progressive Alliance government,” Gurudas Dasgupta, general secretary of the All-India Trade Union Congress, told reporters.
