Coal India Workers to Strike in January

Four coal workers’ federations representing workers at Coal India (NSE:COALINDIA) have voted to go on a five-day strike from January 6 in protest of moves by the government to “denationalize and privatize the coal mining sector.” The Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) issued a statement in support of the strike on Wednesday.

As quoted in the CITU press release:

CITU calls upon the coal unions irrespective of affiliations to carry on intensive campaign for the success of the strike. CITU also calls upon its affiliates in the coal industry who had been already in the midst of strike campaign since early December 2014 to redouble their initiative to carry the call of strike to every individual workers in the coal mines and establishments and also common people in the coal bearing locations. CITU calls upon all the trade unions irrespective of affiliations to extend full support both to strike campaign and strike action by the coal workers to save the coal industry, and also to save the national economy.

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