GOVT WORKERS HAVE NO RIGHT TO STRIKE

The supreme court today set the Red quarters aflutter by ruling that the govt. employees had no "fundamental, legal, moral and equitable" right to go on strike.
The verdict with possibly serious consequences came in response to a clutch of petitions challenging the dismissal of nearly 2 lakh Tamil Nadu state Govt. employees who had launched a strike on July 2.

The ruling by the two -judge bench comprising Justice M.B. Shah and Justice A.R. Lakshmanan left the Left and trade union circles aghast. The CPM, taking a break from its current preoccupation of institution-worship, gave vent to its outrage by coming down heavily on the SC. "It is unfortunate that the highest court in the country, which is expected to uphold basic rights and check arbitrary state actions against citizens, has come with such a retrograde judgement . It is contrary to the fundamental rights in the constitution and the ILO conventions to which India is a party," CPM statement said.