This is part of their protest against privatisation. What they have done and plan to do is precisely the reason why these services should be privatised. Salaries and service conditions of the deserving must be protected. We are all for it. But they cannot put roadblocks on the way of improving, innovating and streamlining the work ethics of essential services like telecom.
Liberalisation depends to a large extent on communication.
The government should take steps to avoid the repetition of such anti-national practices. The government should not shy away from doing the fair thing by the dutiful employees. But the guilty must be shown the door. We wonder whether these striking employees have heard of the story of a Japanese strike on the eve of Christmas some years ago. The strikers intensified the strike by wearing double arm bands but completed the order by working overtime and earned a name and money for Japan Incorporated.