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Indian workers go on a daylong nationwide strike against Modi’s economic reforms
INDIA, JUL 9 – Over 250 million workers protest against four labour codes, privatisation, and unemployment, with key sectors like banking, mining, and transport expected to face major disruptions.
- On July 9, a massive nationwide strike involving millions of workers was organized across India to protest Prime Minister Modi’s push for privatization and his economic reform policies.
- The strike arose because trade unions objected to new labor codes that curtail worker rights and oppose privatization, demanding wage hikes and job security.
- The protest affected banking, postal, electricity, mining, public transport, and manufacturing services across many states including Mumbai, Kerala, and Odisha.
- Amarjeet Kaur said the strike mobilized 25 crore workers and farmers, with around 30,000 protesters detained and coal and copper mining halted.
- The strike highlights growing unrest against the government’s economic policies and urges urgent government intervention amid high unemployment and job vacancies.
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Parliament is about to endorse the recasting of the legislation governing labour law: a legislative levelling down, without revalorisation of wages or consideration for the informal economy, against which the unions organised a national strike on Wednesday.
In India, ten unions launched a national strike on Wednesday, July 9, to protest a set of laws that Parliament is about to adopt. Presented as post-Covid stimulus measures, these reforms relax labour law and accelerate the privatization of public services – to the detriment, according to trade unions, of the already fragile rights of Indian workers.
Tens of millions of Indian workers join 1-day general strike against Modi government’s class war assault
The strikers voiced their opposition to the lengthening of the work day, the spread of precarious contract-labour jobs, privatization, the evisceration of public services, and legislation that will illegalize most strikes.
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