Strikes, lockouts fall 90% in a decade

However, Air India Express employees called a strike there is a decrease in the number of incidents of employees expressing dissatisfaction with their employers in recent years, according to an analysis of data from the Ministry of Labour and Employment

Industrial disputes dropped 89.3 per cent to 34 in 2022 compared to 318 a decade ago, shows central and state data.

In 2011, there were a total of 370 strikes and lockouts. For the past five years, the numbers are provisional but are indicative of a broad trend with fewer than 100 reported each year.

Provisional figures show that 18 disputes, six from the central sphere and 12 from the state sphere, were recorded in the first six months of 2023.

In 2023, 0.2 million person days were lost, with the highest being reported in Tamil Nadu. In the previous year, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan and Maharashtra accounted for 0.25 million person days lost or 44.9 per cent share in total time lost.

In 2022, around 200,0000 workers were involved in strikes and lockouts, resulting in a loss of 0.5 million person days. This is significantly lower than 2012, when 1.3 million workers participated leading to a loss of 12.9 million man days.

The number of strikes and lockouts was higher in other countries, among the nations analyses with the latest data available from the International Labour Organization (ILO).

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