Strike closes down Bangalore IT companies

[OhioChick]

IDG News Service 2/12/07

A dawn-to-dusk strike call to protest against a tribunal order on sharing of river waters brought work at Bangalore's IT companies, including outsourcing companies, to a halt Monday.

Last week the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal in Delhi ordered a resolution to a water-sharing dispute between the states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. The order has angered the people of Karnataka, who want a larger share of the water of the Cauvery River. Bangalore is the capital city of Karnataka.

Most major IT companies in the city, including Indian subsidiaries of multinational IT companies, have asked their staff to stay at home, expecting trouble and even violence from the protesters. Staff at these companies will instead work on a Saturday to make up for the lost time.

The risk of trouble is highest when transporting staff to and from work. IT companies in Bangalore transport a large number of staff each day to and from their offices.

http://www.itworld.com/Man/2701/070212bangalore/


Strike shuts down technology hub

Information technology firms in India's technology hub Bangalore are closed as a general strike against the Cauvery tribunal verdict shut down the city.
The tribunal, set up 17 years ago to decide on a century-old dispute over sharing water from the Cauvery river, announced its ruling last week.

Tamil Nadu state will get 419bn cubic feet of water a year. Karnataka will get only 270bn.

Karnataka says it will appeal against the order.

Bangalore, capital of Karnataka, is a major technology hub where about 1,500 Indian and foreign multinationals are based.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6352865.stm

[BlueManDude]

1. I thought for a minute the workers were striking. Now that would be something.

[Lance_Boyle]

2. How long before the multinationals

who have outsourced operations to Bangalore call in Blackwater to crack some skulls and get their drones back to work? Wheeeee! It's cheap labor AND exercise for the mercenary armies!