We expect the government will not throw them into the streets and leave them an empty stomach," said Mohammed Nizamuddin , a communist party leader who is involved with the rickshaw pullers union in Calcutta.
You cannot make this stuff up.
I wonder what the Communist Rickshaws Pullers Union charges their members for their dues, 5-10% of the gross weekly pay? And what exactly do they do for them I wonder, can they yell "Steward, Steward, the cow dung is too deep to run through with my bare feet" and they threaten a strike unless the Communist Cow Poop Shovelers Union make their members shovel wider paths for them?