Workers Protest Privatization Plans
From Times Wire Reports
Thousands of airport workers backed by civil servants and state-run bank and insurance company employees held a one-day strike to protest government privatization plans.
The 12-hour strike of nearly 20,000 workers was focused mainly on India’s airports, where more than a third of the flights were canceled. Most strikers were from communist-led trade unions.
India plans to let private companies run the New Delhi and Bombay airports, the country’s busiest, on 30-year leases.
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