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Hartal, a blog against the culture of frequent strikes in India shows that even the shifting of a bus terminal to a new wider location in a municipality in Kerala can be a reason to stall an entire district with a day long strike.
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India is a collection of many states. Kerala (mentioned in your article above) and West Bengal are ruled by communist parties. Now these guys believe in power to the worker through unions. It has many negatives but in tough times like these it also has the positive effect that workers cannot be laid off very easily.