The American Federation of Labor (AFL), and later the AFL-CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) have carried out their own foreign policy since the 1890s. These operations, done in the name…
Hindutva politics claims to be rooted in integral humanism and Gandhian socialism as its foundational principles. The BJP has incorporated these principles into its party constitution and regards them as…
Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) Deputy General Secretary Surendra Kumar Pandey on Feb 12 Wednesday said that the organisation is against two out of four new labour codes. Raising serious objections…
Supreme Court's highly welcome directions on January 29 have raised hopes of belated enactment of welfare laws for domestic workers. Speaking in the context of frequent reports of ill-treatment of…
A reflection on the widening gap between CEO ideals and employee realities in the race for longer work hours It is a Monday morning in a bustling city. A company…
Har Haath Ko Kaam Do, Kaam Ke Poore Daam Do,Suraksha Aur Samman Do, Budhaape Men Aaraam Do The All-India Shramik Samman Yatra is an effort to reach out to over…
Recent remarks by Larsen & Toubro (L&T) chairman S.N. Subrahmanyan advocating for 90-hour work weeks has sparked a heated debate about workplace culture and employee well-being in India. Subrahmanyan’s endorsement…
Two days ago, while talking to his employees, S. N. Subramaniam, Chairman of Larsen & Toubro (L&T) construction company, said that workers should work 90 hours a week. For extra…
In 1996 two hope-giving national laws were passed for construction workers which if properly implemented would have by now made available a range of benefits including pensions and financial assistance…
The largest number of workers in Delhi are construction workers. Women are also employed in construction work in significant numbers. However their presence in more skilled work like that of…
In today’s world of widespread poverty and unprecedented wealth, how about raising the wages of the most poorly-paid workers? This October, the World Bank reported that “8.5 percent of the…
Guwahati: In the verdant landscapes of Udalguri, nestled along the Himalayan foothills bordering Bhutan in Assam the tea gardens flourish, their leaves destined for tea cups worldwide. Yet behind every…
India, as people are being constantly told now, fetched the tag of the fastest growing economy having strong macroeconomic fundamentals with an average Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of 7.2 percent,…
• Satyagraha campaign to be launched in November-December • Support to Rozgar Adhikar Abhiyan, porters to attend National Conference on November 10 • National Porter Front (Rashtriya Kuli Morcha) formed…
All the reputed newspapers of the country have published the news on the front page that the Modi government has increased the minimum wage on a large scale. From October…
The reactionary, regressive, and right-wing cultures promoted by authoritarian politics have managed to undermine democracy, constitutional, and liberal traditions in order to uphold the interests of various forms of capitalism…
A significant section of urban unorganised workforce, include the Hamal or Mathadi workers, i.e. workers employed in the manual work of loading and unloading of heavy goods, including food and…
The CEO of OLA, Bhavnish Aggarwal has endorsed a 70-hour work week call given by the Infosys founder Narayana Murthy some time back. He argues against the concept of work…
At present, 95 percent of the workers in the country work in the unorganized sector. During the Corona epidemic, everyone had seen the plight of these workers closely and it…
It is 11.30 and we are at the Haiderpur labor chowk in Delhi where workers gather every morning in the hope of being picked up for work relating to construction,…
On June 7, Samsung workers in South Korea embarked on their first-ever strike, organized by the Nationwide Samsung Electronics Union (NSEU). This historic event involved approximately 28,000 union members, representing…
In many villages of Banda district, Uttar Pradesh, livelihood conditions for many landless worker households and even for many marginal farmer households, those with very small and sometimes disputed land…
Ever since Bharatiya Janata Party came to rule India a decade back in 2014, attacks on unions and the rights of workers increased consistently. Legitimate rights working class won earlier…
Encouraged by Flora Tristan’s exhortation—greatly amplified by Marx and Engels—“Workers of the World, Unite!” (Armbruster-Sandoval, 2013), activists have been encouraging workers to build international labor solidarity to empower each other…
Air pollution levels are high in most cities of India and in many of these cities the situation becomes more difficult in winter months. While this has been widely discussed…
Arun Mallik, who was over sixty, was a guard in our society, which was a gated community in Delhi. He was often seen pushing the larger vehicles to rearrange them…
A large number of daily-wage workers gather every day in Haiderpur (Delhi) on a side of a busy road. They wait here till a contractor or other employer comes to…
It is around 10 in the morning and the number of workers at the Sigalpur labor chowk in Shalimar Bagh area of Delhi is increasing. As a worker Munna says—“The…
Festival season is fast approaching. Woolens for the winter must be purchased now. This is when construction workers of Delhi would like to get as much work as possible to…
With the onset of winter construction workers in Delhi begin to worry about the likely ban on construction work which has been imposed generally during the winter in recent years,…
Problems of working class colonies in Delhi get very little attention in the city’s media, but as recent visits to three such colonies revealed, these can be very serious. What…
Construction work is now second only to that of agriculture in terms of its employment potential in India. Many construction workers—both men and women-- are widely known to toil and…
Although almost two decades have passed since the Second Labour Commission submitted its report, some crucial aspects of its recommendations are still very relevant particularly in the context of the…
Ahmedabad’s eastern peripheral areas include informal industrial clusters such as Vatva, Narol, Sarkhej, Ramol, Dani Limda, Aslali. These are well-known for a variety of industries that they house. The industries…
The impressive mobilization of farmers, farm workers and other workers from all over the country in Delhi on April 5 for focusing attention on their problems and several unhelpful policies…
Belsonica Mazdoor Union of Maruti's component manufacturing company Belsonica Plant at IMT Manesar, Haryana undertook a boycott of lunch for 6 days. The management had suspended a permanent worker…
On January 18th, 1982 the working class movement commemorated the 40th anniversary of the Textile Workers Strike that lasted for 18 months, till July 1983. It was landmark event that…
Workers of Bhagwati Products based in Sidkul Pant Nagar and Zydus Wellness located in Sitarganj, Uttarakhand launched a rally and demonstrated at the district collectorate under the leadership of Shramik…
by Suryashekhar Biswas & Sachi Workers of the Indian Telecommunication Industries Ltd. (ITI) have been on a sit-in protest outside the factory premises in Dooravani Nagar, Bangalore, since 1 December…
If workers struggle for a long time for protective legislation and also succeed in their aim, but the protective law is threatened by dilution and restrictive changes even before its…
How Construction Workers Sink Deeper into Poverty and Debt Keshav and Somvati are residents of a hut in Shahbad dairy colony of Delhi. When lockdown was announced in 2020 they…
When two path-breaking laws were passed in India in 1996 for construction workers, there was great hope among tens of millions of these workers for a range of benefits and…
One of the encouraging things this long-time labor activist has been watching over the past several years is the emerging development of unions across the world and in the United…
If policies of crony capitalism, plunder of people and imperialist exploitation dominate the economic regime of a country, then along with the overall decline of the economy it is inevitable…
A new report, jointly issued by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Labor Organization (ILO) on work-related deaths for the year 2016, shows that workplace-related diseases and injuries…
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