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Members of All Manipur Hills Teachers’ Association (AMHTA) threatened to launch an indefinite hunger strike and a court arrest stir on December 3, in support of the cease work strike of the teachers launched 18 days earlier, under the banner of the Council of Teachers’ Association (COTA).

Teachers across the state of Andhra Pradesh were prevented by police road blocks from reaching demonstrations in Hyderabad, organised by the Joint Action Committee of Employees, Teachers, Workers and Pensioners (JAC). Thousands of strikers were detained by police but despite this there was a massive demonstration in Hyderabad.

Nearly 60,000 employees of Punjab’s power sector went on a two-day strike from December 8, after their talks with the state’s power corporations regarding pay and other benefits failed.

November 10 2010 witnessed tens of thousands of students marching through London in protest at plans to increase their tuition fees.

About 50,000 workers employed with 175 mini steel plants in Chhattisgarh face a threat to their jobs as the factory owners have announced plans to close their units amid rising prices of sponge iron used as raw material. This was announced by the President of the Chhattisgarh Mini Steel Plants Association. The Association is demanding a bail out package from the state government.

Thousands of workers of Karnataka from the "unorganised sector" of the economy — those not covered by the labour laws staged a protest march in Bangalore on November 24, 2010.

Denouncing the practice of contract labour, the workers demanded a hike in minimum wages, ration cards to all workers, and rice at Rs 2 a Kg to every family. 

On the eve of the Assembly session, unorganized sector workers held demonstrations all over Tamil Nadu to highlight their long standing demands.

Starting 22 November, Seafarers and Dockworkers Unions in India and Sri Lanka carried out a week long industrial action against ‘Flags of Convenience’ (FOC) shipping. Activists at all major ports in India and Sri Lanka launched investigations of ships, crew contracts, and working and living conditions on board FOC ships.

BYD Electronics, a Nokia supplier company located in a Special Economic Zone at Orggadam near Chennai, terminated the services of 2,500 contract workers, sacked 37 permanent workers, suspended 23 more and ordered 437 others to sign a letter of apology to keep their jobs and announced an illegal lock out on November 1.