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Experiments with truth: 8/7/09
Original article at https://wagingnonviolence.org/2009/08/experiments-with-truth-8709/
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Four port workers, who were sacked for attempting to create two independent unions, are on hunger strike in the Panamanian port of Balboa.
- Normal life was paralysed in Manipur for 48-hours this week, due to a general strike to protest the killing of a youth.
- In India, the executive committee of the UP Engineers Association (UPEA) decided on Tuesday that engineers in all the services of the state government will boycott work to protest the failure of the police to arrest the murderers of an assistant engineer, Manoj Kumar Singh, in Gorakhpur.
- Los Angeles firefighters rallied in front of City Hall to protest the $39 million in cuts on Wednesday.
- In Kashmir, three casual labourers continued with the hunger strike—‘fast unto death’— inside the make shift tent, erected outside the office of chief engineer at Rajbagh to protest working conditions and unpaid wages.
- In Afghanistan on Wednesday, some 100 people from Kohat village took four bodies to Kandahar, as a sign of protest alleging that international troops carried out air raids on the village at 01:00 a.m., which left four civilians including three children dead.
- Bus drivers gathered in London wearing only their underwear to highlight a “huge disparity” in wages they claim is damaging services. Members of the Unite union unveiled boxer shorts with the words “Stop the race to the bottom” in Marble Arch.
- Up to 400 students gathered in protest near the Autonomous University of Honduras in the city on Wednesday. Adding to the pressure, some 15,000 nurses and other workers at 28 hospitals declared themselves on an indefinite strike, joining public school teachers who have been off the job for weeks.
- In Australia, more than 300 teachers rallied outside Queensland’s parliament to protest against the state government’s refusal to further negotiate wage increases.
- Bank employees unions decided to observe a nationwide strike after talks with the government and the Indian Bank’s Association (IBA) collapsed on Wednesday. The bank employees are demanding a 20 percent raise in salary, resumption of talks and expeditious settlement of all their demands.
