The heads of government electricity and water unions backing a campaign to oust Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra threatened on Monday to call informal strike action this week unless he quits. The threats are the latest addition to the growing anti-Thaksin campaign, which has vowed round-the-clock protests to force him out.
See "Thai Unions Threaten Strikes to Oust PM", Reuters, The New York Times, March 5, 2006