MUMBAI, May 4: A 36-hour strike by suburban train drivers that crippled India’s financial capital ended on Tuesday evening shortly after the authorities cracked down on the strikers for causing chaos but promised to back their demands for better working conditions.
Some seven million commuters who use the electric trains daily heaved a sigh of relief as Maharashtra’s Home Minister RR Patil announced the end of the work stoppage after talks with union leaders. Patil told reporters that the State government would take up the demands of the motormen, as the drivers are known, with the Central Railway Board. Disciplinary action taken against the strikers would be withdrawn.
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