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STRIKE * India
* Strike Cripples Operations at India's Port Nehru
Mumbai,India -The Journal of Commerce Online -Feb 28, 2012: -- Operations at the Port of Jawaharlal Nehru (Nhava Sheva) were severely disrupted Tuesday after dock workers at India’s largest container gateway joined a 24-hour nationwide general strike... Unionized dockers also walked off the job at other major state-owned ports, including Mumbai, Chennai, Cochin and Kolkata... The Trade Union Coordination Committee, representing 11 major labor federations, launched the latest strike to exert pressure on the government to review its proposed changes in public-sector organizations, particularly covering divestment of state ownership and increased foreign direct investment in the banking, retail and insurance sectors. Other grievances included burgeoning inflation and the lack of social security in the unorganized sector...
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