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Trade unions' strike: Deserted roads, parked buses, red flags and demands
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An activist of a trade union group holds a party flag as he walks past a burning tyre during a daylong nationwide strike in Odisha's capital city - Bhubaneswar. (AP Photo/Biswaranjan Rout)
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During a day-long nationwide strike called by ten central trade unions to protest changes in labour laws and privatisation of PSUs by the NDA government, no buses plied on the streets and remained parked at the ISBT in Shimla. (HT Photo/Santosh Rawat)
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The enquiry window at the Sindhi Camp bus stand was non-functional during the strike called by United Front of Trade and Workers' Union in Jaipur on Wednesday, to protest against the Centre's policies on land acquisition, inflation and labour law amendments. (HT Photo/Himanshu Vyas)
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Even banking was affected as members of United Forum of Bank Unions called work off at MP Nagar in Bhopal during the nation-wide bank strike. (HT Photo/Praveen Bajpai)
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While passengers rested on the bus-stands as they had no other mode of transport as the buses went off the road during the strike, police officials too had some rest while being alert for untoward happening during the strike. (HT Photo/Himanshu Vyas)
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A vendor arranges items at his shop as the platforms were bereft of passengers at the Sindhi Camp bus stand in Jaipur due to the strike. (HT Photo/Himanshu Vyas)
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Members of United Forum of Bank Unions demonstrating at MP Nagar in Bhopal during one day nation-wide bank strike on Wednesday, September 2, 2015. (HT Photo/Praveen Bajpai)
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The strike-day was also a rare occasion for passengers to walk past empty autorickshaw lanes with their luggage at New Delhi Railway Station on Wednesday. (HT Photo/Arun Sharma)
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The forever-busy Howrah bridge in Kolkata was deserted on the day of labour unions' nationwide strike on September 2, 2015. (AFP Photo/Dibyangshu Sarkar)
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Not just the blue collars, even corporate employees and IT workers pledged their support to the nation-wide strike by trade unions at Sholanginallur in Chennai on Wednesday. (HT Photo)
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Activists stopped a car from commuting in order to make the bandh, called by various trade union against proposed labour reforms by Union government, successful in Bhubaneswar on Wednesday. (PTI Photo)
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