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Right to strike

Sir, — When the Kerala NGO Association moved a petition for a review of the judgment in the T.K. Rangarajan case, the Supreme Court lost a good opportunity to review its decision holding that employees have no legal, moral or equitable right to strike even for a just cause. The law as it now stands states that servants have no right to strike but masters have the right to strike at the workers by way of lockouts, retrenchments, and riding roughshod over the rights, thus firmly laying down the law of inequality not enshrined in Article 14 of the Constitution.

N.G.R. Prasad,

Chennai

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