Is Essential Defence Services Bill a Colonial Practice to Ban Strikes?
The Essential Defence Services Bill, 2021, prohibits workers engaged in essential defence services from striking work especially in light of the decision to corporatise the Ordnance Factory Board. The Bill, 2021, violates two resolutions of the International Labour Conference, which provides guidelines for ILO’s policy, and emphasise the recognition of the right to strike. ILO’s Committee on Freedom of Association considers the right to strike as one of the essential means available to workers for the protection of their interests and explains how trade unions will be rendered powerless.
