Strikes, hartals,lock outs-bane of India has been absent for about ten years now.Now a sudden spurt.
Economically the average earnings of a worker favourably compares with developing Nations and working classes of India are in a much better position than before when compared to Agricuturists.
This tendency to go on strike has afflicted not only of lower cadres and in labour oriented industry but service oriented highly paid blue collar industry , like pilots of Airlines as well.
In most cases, subsequentlt we come to know it is because of clash of egos and miscommunication and ineffective HR department.
Also the hands of communists(of which the Unions are a part) can not be ruled out, as voters have trounced them in recent elections and their governments are in disarray following internal strife and corruption.
Story:
Thousands of workers were part of a strike in an important north Indian industrial hub Tuesday, underscoring touchy labor relations in Asia’s third-largest economy.
The standoff in the district of Gurgaon, neighboring the Indian capital of New Delhi, was sparked by the death of a protesting worker of an auto-component firm on Sunday.
Police blamed the worker’s death on what they called a clash between groups of striking and non-striking employees.
Trade unions accused company management and police instead.
D.L. Sachdev, secretary of the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC), insisted Tuesday’s strike had a broader agenda though.
“Workers in Gurgaon are denied the right to form a union and are victimized when they try to do so,” he said.
Sachdev claimed that up to 90,000 workers — mostly technicians and machine operators — have joined the stir led by the AITUC, one of India’s main trade unions.
Authorities, however, have declared the strike illegal.
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/10/20/india.labor.unrest/index.html
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