Defence industry trade unions in India have said they will fight the government's recent move to ille-galise strikes invoked by the workers of the country's largest defence factory network: the state-owned Ordnance Factory Board (OFB). The unions said in a joint resolution that they will take legal action and lodge complaints with international labour organisations in a bid to force the government to lift the strike ban, which introduces fines and jail terms for any unauthorised work stoppages at OFB sites or any other defence-industrial enterprise in the country. The resolution also called on defence industry workers in India to formally protest the new ban on 8 July and indicated that additional protests will be staged in the near future. "The democratic and legal protest against the state authority misusing state power against its own employees will continue," stated the resolution, which was signed by five defence industry trade unions in India that represent several hundred thousand workers.
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