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UNIONS declared victory yesterday after up to 150 million Indian workers took to the streets in a general strike on Wednesday.
The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) and IndustriAll Global Union hailed the enormous turnout in the protest against amendments to labour laws that will make it easier to sack workers.
The decision to call a nationwide strike was taken at a national convention of workers convened by India’s trade union centres in May.
The International Court of Justice has delivered its clearest ruling yet that the right to strike is protected under international law, write Professor TONIA NOVITZ, Professor KEITH EWING and Lord JOHN HENDY KC
The biggest strike in global history is a template for our future. The silence tells you all you need to know, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
Organised workers at the notoriously anti-union global giant are scoring victory after victory, and now international bodies are pitching in to finally force this figurehead of corporate capitalism to give in to unionisation, writes EMILIO AVELAR