Ten million strike in India

Diane Monaco dmonaco at pop3.utoledo.edu
Thu Apr 18 10:57:54 PDT 2002


India's unions have warned they will step up their protests against plans to make it easier to lay off workers, one day after as many as ten million employees went on a strike that brought much of the urban part of the country to a standstill.

Bank workers and employees from more than 220 state-run companies walked off their jobs on Tuesday for a one-day strike, virtually paralyzing the South Asian nation's financial markets, factories and ports.

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