Great Bombay Textile Strike

Great Bombay stuff Strike TheGreat Bombay Textile Strikewas a fabric tallycalled on 18 January 1982 by the mess about workers ofBombay(currentlyMumbai) under parcel out amount leaderDutta Samant. The purpose of the strike was to obtain bonus and wage increases. well 250,000 workers and to a greater extent than 50 textile mill around went on strike in Bombay. 1 History of Mills in Bombay Built in 1887,Swadeshiwas Bombays first textile mill, the first of the factories that spread overGirangaon, popularly nicknamed as Bombays village of mills, in the next decades.By 1982, when Datta Samant led the textile strike, over 240,000 mass worked in Girangaon. 2 Protests In late 1981, Dutta Samant was chosen by a vainglorious group of Bombay mill workers to lead them in a precarious meshing between the Bombay Mill owners Association and the sexual sexual unions, thus rejecting theINTUC-affiliated Rashtriya Mill Mazdoor Sanghwhich had represented the mill workers for decades. Samant planned a massive strike forcing the entire industry of the metropolis to be shut down for over a year. 3It was estimated that nearly 250,000 workers went on strike and more than 50 textile mills were shut in Bombay. In August 1982, the city police briefly went on strike, manifestly in sympathy with the workers resulting into the army and Border Security Force to be called in to control the unrest. 1Samant demanded that, along with wage hikes, the government scrap theBombay industrial Act of 1947and that the RMMS would not longer be the only official union of the city industry.While fighting for greater pay and better conditions for workers, Samant and his ally also sought to capitalize and establish their power on the trade union scene in Mumbai. Although Samant had links with the Congress and Maharashtra politicianAbdul Rehman Antulay, premier(a) MinisterIndira Gandhiconsidered him a serious political threat. Samants control of the mill workers make Gandhi and other Congress lea ders fear that his influence would spread to the user interface and dock workers and make him the just about powerful union leader in Indias commercial capital.Thus the government took a firm stance of rejecting Samants demands and refusing to reposition despite the severe economic losses suffered by the city and the industry. As the strike progressed through the months, Samants militancy in the face of government obstinance led to the failure of any attempts at negotiation. Disunity and dissatisfaction over the strike in brief became apparent, and many textile mill owners began moving their plants outside the city. After a prolonged and destabilizing confrontation, the strike collapsed with no concessions having been obtained for the workers.The closure of textile mills crossways the city left tens of thousands of mill workers unemployed and, in the succeeding years, most of the industry moved away from Bombay afterwards decades of being plagued by uphill costs and union mi litancy. Although Samant remained popular with a large block of union activists, his clout and control over Bombay trade unions disappeared. 3 Consequences The majority of the over 80 mills in Central Mumbai closed during and after the strike, leaving more than 150,000 workers unemployed. 4Textile industry in Mumbai has largely disappeared, reducing labor migration after the strikes. 5