Insurance sector staff strike work in West Bengal

August 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bank employees on Saturday resumed work after a two-day strike by public sector bank employees union. The Indian Bank Association (IBA) on Friday reportedly agreed to the demand of the ank employees for 17.5 per cent hike in their salaries.

August 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Employees of public sector banks across the country went on a two day strike from today to press for their demands, as per the recommendations of the sixth pay commission. Bank employees unions decided to observe nation wide strike after talks with the government and the Indian Bank's Association (IBA) collapsed on Wednesday.

July 28th, 2009 SUKNA - Life returned to normal at Sukna in West Bengal on Tuesday when the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) called off their strike. Gorkhas called an indefinite strike in the region on June 10 demanding a separate state of "Gorkhaland" to be carved out of West Bengal to protect their culture and heritage.

July 24th, 2009 KALIJHORA - Demanding separate state for gurkhas, the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM), called a halt to project work of the National Hydroelectric power Corporation (NHPC) at Kalijhora in West Bengal's Darjeeling District. "We have called for this strike because this project is a central government project in Bengal.

July 9th, 2009 KOLKATA - A day after threatening to suspend operations at its strike-hit Batanagar unit in West Bengal, Bata India Thursday held talks with union leaders and asked them to exhort the striking contract labourers to end the four-day-old agitation. "The management has told us today (Thursday) that they are willing to listen to the demand of the contract workers, but they have to first withdraw their strike," Bata Mazdoor Union president Subir Chakraborty said.

June 8th, 2009 KOLKATA - About 40,000 jewellers in West Bengal started a 72-hour strike Monday in protest against alleged harassment by income-tax (IT) department officials. The strike, called by two trade-related organisations, is in support of putting a stop to "inhuman IT raids" that protesters said often went on for more than 24 hours.

May 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Trinamool Congress Thursday demanded the imposition of president's rule in West Bengal, alleging there was complete breakdown of the constitutional machinery and people had lost confidence in the Left Front government there. 'The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M)-led Left Front government has to come to an end in West Bengal.

January 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Essar Oil's entire production will be for the domestic market, a senior company official said here Friday, the third day of an indefinite strike called by oil sector officers. 'All our products, 100 percent, are entirely for the domestic market,' a senior Essar official told IANS.

January 8th, 2009 KOLKATA - The West Bengal government may start rationing petrol and diesel, a senior official said here Friday on day-three of the crippling oil sector officers' strike. 'We might consider rationing of petrol and diesel in the state if this panic situation prevails, people are procuring petrol or diesel more than actually required,' Chief Secretary Ashok Mohan Chakraborty told reporters.

January 7th, 2009 KOLKATA - On Day Two of the nationwide indefinite strike by oil sector employees, many petrol pumps across West Bengal went dry, said an official here. S. Arunachalam, eastern regional secretary of Indian Oil Officers' Association, told IANS: 'Supply has got affected.

January 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Airline operators Tuesday said they have a contingency plan with oil companies for uninterrupted supply of aviation fuel to tide over any crisis if oil sector employees go on strike. The Oil Sector Officers' Association (OSOA), an umbrella organisation representing 45,000 oil sector employees, has threatened strike from Wednesday demanding higher wages.

January 5th, 2009 KOLKATA - Nearly 70 percent of trucks in West Bengal remained off the road, while none of the 15,000 trucks, scheduled to go out of the state daily, moved on the second day of the nationwide strike Tuesday. The indefinite strike was called by the All India Motor Transport Congress (AIMTC).

January 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Oil sector strike seems set to go ahead from Wednesday, with both the government and employees of the public sector oil companies staying adamant on their respective positions. The Oil Sectors Officers Association (OSOA), representing around 45,000 public sector employees in 14 organisations, called for an indefinite strike from Wednesday demanding higher wages.

January 1st, 2009 KOLKATA - Around 50,000 officers in public sector oil companies across the country are going on an indefinite strike from Jan 7 demanding a wage hike, the head of an officers' association said Friday. 'We are meeting in New Delhi Saturday to chalk out our plan for the strike,' said Subodh Dakwale, president of the Indian Oil Corp (IOC) Officers' Association, speaking to IANS on phone from Jaipur.

December 22nd, 2008 AGARTALA - Over 1,700 insurance employees in the northeast went on strike Tuesday as part of a nationwide protest against the government's move to raise foreign direct investment (FDI) in the insurance sector. More than 1,700 insurance employees belonging to 22 branches of Life Insurance Corp of India (LIC) and the General Insurance Corp (GIC) in Tripura, Manipur, Mizoram and Assam took part in the strike, said Dipankar Chakraborty, a spokesman of the All India Insurance Employees Association (AIIEA).