Biggest Strike Ever? India Ground to a halt as 100,000,000 workers join historic strike | YNaija industries workers in India have embarked on what is now described as “one of the biggest strikes everâ€. 100,000,000 workers joined the strike which has resulted in a ‘complete shutdown' of banking in Mumbai. Transport and postal services have also been hit by the strike which involves workers from different sectors. The workers are demanding a national minimum wage, permanent jobs for contract labourers, social security for informal labourers, pensions for all workers, intervention by the government to stop the rising costs of living, and ending of the sell off of publicly owned companies amongst other demands Libcom blogger, working class self organization reported in January: “Over a dozen of India's largest trade unions have called for and signed up to the strike. The strike will affect many sectors, including public sector banks, ports and docks, railways, insurance, road transport, energy workers, miners, and aviation workers. “Recent months have seen a mounting wave of militant worker struggles in India, strikes for union recognition in India's expanding auto sector, including a two-day occupation of a Hyundai plant, a wildcat strike by Air India personnel, and walkouts by telecom workers and coal miners against the central government's privatization plans.†The different unions have a variety of different demands, hey include gaining the same rights and protection for temporary and contract workers that permanent workers have, raising and extending the minimum wage, resisting the attacks on trade unions, stopping price rises, the creation of a national social security fund, increase in pensions, and combating corruption.†100 arrests were reportedly made yesterday morning for obstructing traffic and police are said to have been deployed to try to prevent ‘unlawful' picketing.
Damn even India gets it before we do. Are we going to be the last country to realize we're being fucked and do something about it?
I can understand, I would probably be calling for the same if I was an Indian from a low caste... it's practically slave labour for many people over there.
I wouldn't be, because no matter what my caste or my nationality I would still understand basic economics.
You can't say that, simply because you are not them. You are looking at this from a very one-sided point of view, which is an American point of view.
Let's compromise and call it Western. India has a completely different society with problems that don't get solved by Western solutions.
Economics is a science. It works universally. Do the laws of physics work differently in India as opposed to America? Economics is just as universal as all natural laws.
[quote name='"Johnny Cash"'] You can't say that, simply because you are not them. You are looking at this from a very one-sided point of view, which is an American point of view.[/quote] Bs economics is not American
Economics work in conjuction with sociology and many other factors. I don't believe it's as universal as you claim it to be.
I know. I just said it's an American point of view because I assumed Lay Low to be an American, which in hindsight I don't know is true or not.
I don't know if you have, but travel to a lot of 3rd world countries, go to the poorest parts there, see around and try to say the same thing. You won't be able to. You don't understand what it is to live on 90 american dollars monthly. These people don't have the opportunities in life like you and me. It is way harder for them to get out of their hole than for us to choose a college, study and get a degree, a job, a Life. These people have nothing, no education, no money, no food, no house, nada, zero. They live in huts made of boxes, and its normal for a family of 5 to live in one. Unlike you and me, who live for the pleasure of living, these unfortunate souls live for misery, and they know nothing else.
[quote name='"PeruvianDank"'] I don't know if you have, but travel to a lot of 3rd world countries, go to the poorest parts there, see around and try to say the same thing. You won't be able to. You don't understand what it is to live on 90 american dollars monthly. These people don't have the opportunities in life like you and me. It is way harder for them to get out of their hole than for us to choose a college, study and get a degree, a job, a Life. These people have nothing, no education, no money, no food, no house, nada, zero. They live in huts made of boxes, and its normal for a family of 5 to live in one. Unlike you and me, who live for the pleasure of living, these unfortunate souls live for misery, and they know nothing else.[/quote] This is all economics. And it is cured by freemarkets ,trade , and property rights