Jayaben Desai, architect of Asian women workers’ movement, dead

• Jayaben Desai, a pioneer of Asian women workers' movement in Britain, died after a brief illness. She was 77. She is survived by her husband and two sons.
• The diminutive India-born Ms. Desai, who moved to Britain from Tanzania in 1969, came to be known as a "lioness'' for her role in leading the two-year long strike at the Grunwick Film Processing Laboratories, north London, in the 1970s to demand union recognition for its largely Asian and female workforce.