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...against rising fuel prices shut down the capital. Kathmandu residents face at least six hours of power cuts a day. The government has been unable to raise Nepal's middling growth rate, which hovers around 2%, and funds many of its programs on an IV drip of foreign aid. Trade-union activism and general strikes, some suspect spurred in part by the YCL, disrupt factories in outlying areas and basic services in the cities. During Christmastime around Kathmandu, sanitation workers had been agitating for over three months. Piles of garbage festered around every cobblestoned corner of the city, visceral reminders...
...exactly what some tea producers are trying to do. Tata Tea's Kanan Devan estate in Kerala, in southern India, gives each worker shares in the company. Although Tata is otherwise exiting the plantation business, this new ownership model has the unofficial support of many tea producers and trade-union leaders. Ambootia workers raise organic oranges and ginger, which the company markets abroad. At Makaibari Tea Estate in Darjeeling, owner Rajah Banerjee gives workers cows and buys back manure for use on the estate. "My mantra is, Partnership with workers, not ownership," says Banerjee...
Dealings with the trade unions are less clear-cut. Settling the dustup with the Transport and General Workers' Union early in the year at least averted the even bigger losses that a cabin-crew walkout would have triggered. But the ugly dispute left both parties admitting that a fresh start was necessary. That will take a while. The roots of January's squabble were buried in agreements drawn up in the '90s. Walsh acknowledges, "You don't change the way you do business with long-established trade-union relationships overnight...
...said in a statement issued at the time. That will take a while. The roots of January's squabble over pay levels were buried in agreements drawn up in the '90s, years before Walsh arrived. He acknowledges: "You don't change the way you do business with long-established trade-union relationships overnight...
...government led by the Civic Platform is unlikely to be the tonic that the Kaczynskis' critics expect. Founded in 2001 by ex-Solidarity trade-union dissidents and academics, the party's leaders may be more sophisticated than their Law and Justice rivals, but their basic principles are similar. (The Kaczynskis were also Solidarity members.) The Law and Justice Party, for example, has been criticized for its vigorous pursuit of the policy of "lustration," which requires officials and professionals who had dealings with the former communist secret police to confess their collaboration or lose their jobs. But the Civic Platform...