Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra Wednesday ordered Thai Airways International to explain a report that its labour union has resolved to allow THAI staffs to lay down tools, a Government House source said.

The source said Yingluck demanded an explanation from the THAI following a report that the THAI labour union reached a resolution to allow THAI workers to use individual judgment whether to join the three-day strike. The strike was called by protest leader and former Democrat MP Suthep Thaugsuban as part of civil disobedience against the administration.

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