Experiments with truth: 12/17/09

The Editors December 17, 2009

Greece is bracing for a 24-hour strike today by the Communist-backed PAME union even as the newly-elected Socialist government struggles to tackle the country’s ballooning budget deficit. The strike is expected to include local government workers, hospital doctors and port workers, while journalists and teachers are also staging separate strikes.

Civil servants working at train stations across Turkey began to strike on Wednesday to protest the firing of 16 civil servants who were let go because they had participated in a warning strike in late November to protest a substandard wage increase of 2.5 percent.

Over 2,000 inmates began a hunger strike at Tocuyito prison in Carabobo state, central Venezuela, to demand improvements in their prison conditions.

Normal life in Muslim majority areas of the India-controlled Kashmir Tuesday remained affected due to a strike call in protest of the Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) findings that two women in Shopian town were not raped and murdered but died due to drowning in May.

Activists in the Russian Far Eastern city of Vladivostok have launched a hunger strike over the imprisonment of an organizer of protests against increased taxes on imported cars.

In India, about 400,000 bank employees went on strike on Wednesday to protest merging state-owned banks, partially affecting cash transactions and clearing operations.

78 employees from engineering office that Yahoo opened just last year in Echirolles, a suburb of Grenoble, France, have walked out to protest the office’s closure.

Tags: Experiments with Truth, Incarceration, Labor, Russia, Strikes

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