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The text of the statement issued at the initiative of the Lok Raj Sangathan by the following organizations working in Mumbai on May 29, 2010 is reproduced below. It has been distributed to tens of thousands of workers in the financial capital of India, and has received huge support cutting across different sections of the working class and people.

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.