India Dockers Work Again
From Reuters
BOMBAY, India —
About 300,000 dockworkers returned to work Monday at India’s 10 major ports after a successful six-day strike for higher wages, union leaders said. The strike had cut India’s imports to a trickle and virtually paralyzed exports. A five-year wage accord between five dockworkers’ unions and the government provides for increases ranging from $20 to $53 a month, effective next Jan. 1.
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