Strike
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HC asks transport corporation, striking employees to hold talks
India | Oct 18, 2019, 11:04 PM ISTWith no breakthrough achieved since its oral directive three days ago, the Telangana High Court virtually set an ultimatum of October 28 on Friday for the state road transport corporation (TSRTC) and the striking employees' unions for holding talks and settle their disputes.
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Staff strike for wage revision grounds HAL operations
India | Oct 14, 2019, 06:00 PM ISTTerming the strike illegal, the company claimed that the employees were offered the best package revision.
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Striking lifeguards demand regular jobs, steady pay
India | Oct 14, 2019, 05:17 PM ISTOver 200 striking lifeguards protested near a temple in North Goa's Mapusa town on Monday, demanding regularisation and steady payment.
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Why 10,000 HAL workers have decided to go on strike from today
India | Oct 14, 2019, 11:23 AM ISTThe 55-year-old aerospace major has about 20,000 employees in 5 production complexes in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Koraput in Odisha, Lucknow and Nashik in Maharashtra and 4 research and development (R&D) centres across the country.
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HAL employees to go ahead with strike after talks fail
India | Oct 13, 2019, 09:11 PM ISTThe employees' unions of the city-headquartered HAL have served notice at all locations of the Defence PSU to go on the indefinite strike from October 14 with regard to the settlement of wage revision effective from January 1, 2017.
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Khammam TSTRC driver who set himself ablaze succumbs to burns
India | Oct 13, 2019, 12:56 PM ISTPolice said they were probing why the driver took the extreme step. Srinivas Reddy, working in the Khammam depot, who was part of the group of employees on a state-wide strike for the last died of burn injuries, hospital sources said.
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Telangana transport services hit, KCR defiant on 48,000 dismissals
India | Oct 07, 2019, 12:45 PM ISTTelangana RTC strike: Telangana government has sacked 48,000 employees of the Telangana State Roads Transport Corporation(TSRTC) with Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao calling the strike -- 'unpardonable crime'.
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Buses go off in Telangana as TSRTC strike begins
India | Oct 05, 2019, 10:43 AM ISTHundreds of passengers were stranded at bus stations across the state and people travelling to their destinations for Dasara and Bathukamma festivals faced severe inconvenience as over 10,000 buses remained confined to the bus depots.
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Coal miners strike hit production in Telangana's Singareni
Business | Sep 24, 2019, 11:59 AM ISTThe coal production in almost all the mines spread across six districts of Telangana was hit as majority of the over 50,000 employees joined the strike.
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One-day strike against amended Motor Vehicle Act provisions tomorrow
India | Sep 18, 2019, 08:55 PM ISTCommuters may face hardships in the national capital on Thursday as transport bodies have given a one-day token strike call against various provisions of the amended Motor Vehicle (MV) Act, including a steep hike in penalties for various traffic-related offences.
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Auto Union votes for major strike against General Motors; 50,000 workers off duty
Business | Sep 16, 2019, 07:48 AM ISTAbout 200 plant-level union leaders voted unanimously in favour of a walkout during a meeting Sunday morning in Detroit. Union leaders said the sides were still far apart on several major issues and they apparently weren’t swayed by a GM offer to make new products at or near two of the four plants it had been planning to close, according to someone briefed on the matter.
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HongKong students strike on 1st day of school year
World | Sep 02, 2019, 12:23 PM ISTThe students, most of them wearing black T-shirts over their uniforms, were expected to head to the city centre for a rally in Edinburgh Place against the now-shelved extradition bill, which would have allowed the transfer of fugitives to jurisdictions with which Hong Kong lacks an extradition deal, including mainland China, the South China Morning Post reported.
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Ordnance factory workers call off strike
Business | Aug 24, 2019, 03:51 PM ISTEmployees of 41 ordnance factories across the country had begun a strike on August 20 against government's plans to corporatise them as private sector entities.
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Sanitation workers at Taj Mahal end strike
India | Aug 14, 2019, 12:35 PM ISTAlarmed over a spate of complaints from tourists regarding stinking toilets in the Taj Mahal, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) officials on Wednesday worked out a truce with the striking sanitation workers who returned to work to clean up the mess.
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Goa taxi operators end 7-day strike after CM Pramod Sawant assures to address demands
India | Aug 09, 2019, 09:31 AM ISTThe seven-day-old strike by tourist taxi operators in Goa was withdrawn on Thursday evening after Chief Minister Pramod Sawant assured to look into their demands following a meeting with union representatives.
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IMA strike: Non-essential medical services affected in Jaipur
India | Jul 31, 2019, 09:19 PM ISTThe day-long strike was in protest of the Lok Sabha approving and passing the National Medical Commission Bill (NMC) 2019. In support of the protest, the Jaipur Association of Resident Doctors (JARD) has decided to go on a 24-hour strike from Thursday at 8.00 am.
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CITU calls 2-day taxi strike in West Bengal next month
India | Jul 25, 2019, 09:26 AM ISTAnadi Sahu, general secretary of the West Bengal unit of Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), said it has become next to impossible for taxi owners to run the cabs under the existing fare rates due to steep rise in fuel prices.
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A million auto-rickshaws to strike from midnight in Maharashtra
India | Jul 09, 2019, 09:42 AM ISTDemanding a crackdown on illegal auto-rickshaws, aggregator services like Ola-Uber, and a steep fare hike, around a million auto-rickshaws all over Maharashtra will launch an indefinite strike from midnight
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Delhi's health secretary writes to police chief over ambulance staff strike
India | Jul 03, 2019, 07:39 AM ISTHealth Department of the Delhi government has written to the police commissioner seeking action against a section of CATS ambulance staff who have allegedly damaged some emergency vehicles and been obstructing works of others, officials said on Tuesday.
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Now Kolkata's yellow taxis join app cab strike
India | Jul 02, 2019, 10:18 PM ISTPassengers seemed out of their wits in busy areas like Howrah station, Sealdah station and Esplanade, as the AITUC-affiliated Kolkata Taxi Operaors' Union called a 24-hour strike, adding to the people's woes due to the disruption of services by West Bengal Online Cab Operators' Guild (WBOCOG) and an organization of luxury taxis providing services to the government offices.