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Article: State, national government employees to strike across India on May 21
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- April 22, 2003
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Dateline: NEW DELHI, India
India's government employees, from national to village level, will
strike on May 21 to protest plans to privatize state-run companies
and cut their benefits, a news agency reported Tuesday.
The strike was aimed at "crippling the government machinery," Sukhomal
Sen, general secretary of the All India State Government Employees
Federation, was quoted by the Press Trust of India as saying.
Another union leader, S.K. Vyas of the Central Government Employees
and Workers, said the strike "will ...