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Unhygienic conditions of work in Municipal Hospitals of Mumbai have forced 75,000 BMC workers to plan a three day strike from June 29, 2010.

Bank workers of the Bank of Rajasthan went on a three day strike to protest the merger of the Bank with the private sector ICICI Bank. The strike severely crippled banking services in Rajasthan from June 18, 2010.

Tea workers organized under Coordination Committee of the Tea Workers Union observed a 24-hours strike in West Bengal's Siliguri District on June 7, 2010 demanding hike in wages.

The Vidyut Karamchari Sanyukt Sangharsh Samiti (Power Employees Joint Action Committee) in Uttar Pradesh has demanded scrapping of the decision of the UPPCL to handover Kanpur’s power distribution management to a private company. The Union Samiti consists of workers in all three wings — generation, transmission and distribution.

2,000 MGNREGA workers staged a rally in Jaipur on June 24, 2010 over poor payments under the rural employment guarantee scheme.

Schreiber Dynamix Dairies India has launched a vicious attack on workers and their union.

Activists of the Orissa State Electricity Board Bijuli Karmachari Sangh (OSEBBKS), southern zone held a demonstration and dharna in front of the corporate headquarters of the private power distribution company Southco in Behrampur on June 17, 2010. They were protesting against non-fulfilment of agreements with employees relating to filling of all vacancies of field staff, regularisation of contract employees and payment of yearly increment to linesmen.

Workers at Ford India near Chennai have formed a union (FIEMU) and have demanded that the Company negotiate with their union. Ford, like many other multinational companies, has the practice of actively discouraging the formation of unions. Instead it appoints a “workers committee” and deals with workers through such a committee.

Manholes and sewer lines overflowed and sunk Hyderabad city roads as casual workers of Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board staff and workers’ union went on an indefinite strike on June 18, demanding regularisation.

In 1994, the Central Adminstrative Tribunal, Chandigarh, had ruled that workers working with the Railways on basis of Casual Labour Service must be absorbed as permanent workers. Sixteen years, later, the Railways has refused to implement this directive. According to the rules, the Railways had to absorb these erstwhile casual workers as permanent workers, once it stopped recruitment of casual labour.