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STRIKE * India - Indian government savagely suppresses oil and truck-driver strikes
4 million truck drivers strike in India … they were protesting high diesel fuel prices - Indian government responded by jailing 31 leaders of the All India Motor Transport Congress
Mumbai,India -gangbox, by Ajay Prakash & Arun Kumar -January 15, 2009: -- India’s Congress Party-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government has spearheaded a state campaign to break two strikes in the past week... The first involved 50,000 white-collar workers at a dozen government-owned oil and natural gas companies, the second several million truck drivers, most of them owner-operators... The UPA government quashed the strikes by jailing strike leaders, instructing state governments to invoke draconian antistrike laws (Essential Service Maintenance Acts), urging the oil companies to fire strikers en masse, and threatening to deploy the army to move supplies, impound trucks, and make mass arrests. In both instances, the central government insisted that no negotiations would take place while the strikes continued... On Monday, the All India Motor Transport Congress (AIMTC) ordered an end to an eight-day strike that had paralyzed commercial trucking in much of India in return for a government promise to consider the truckers’ grievances... The central government is setting up a 14-member committee to review the truckers’ demands for lower diesel and tire prices, reduced interstate tolls and a single national driving-permit. Its non-binding report is supposed to be issued within eight weeks...
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