The strike by about 1,000 workers in the Hazira Factory (Gujarat) of the Larsen and Toubro, is continuing for 83 days. The main demand is that they should be given wage rise as has been given to the workers in the company’s plant at Powai(Maharashtra). The workers at Powai are getting more basic wages also, they say.

L and T is generally considered as a company with good labour relations. But the present strike has exposed the management’s claim of good labour relations.

Why Narendra Mody’s Government is not intervening in the strike and not getting the issue got settled? This incident once again confirms that the Mody Government is supporting the corporates against the workers.