Modi Getting His Thatcher Moment Confronting Coal Unions
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Is India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi reading up on Margaret Thatcher?
The late former prime minister of the U.K. had one of her defining and controversial confrontations in a protracted fight with striking coal miners in the 1980s. Different time, another country, but Modi has angry unions threatening to stop work at the world’s biggest coal miner, Coal India Ltd.