Decade Long Attack on Indian Worker rights
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…
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Building Global Labor Solidarity: Where We Are at Today (early 2024)
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…
Better Protection from Pollution Needed for Outdoor Workers
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…
Story of Arun Mallik
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…
Urban Program Needed for Providing Shelter and Facilities at Gathering Points of Daily Wage Workers
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…
Workers Struggle Hard to Keep Away Hunger in Times of Dwindling Employment
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…
Workers Denied Employment by Construction Ban Must Get Compensatory Help
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…
Impact of Changing Weather Patterns and Climate Change on Construction Workers
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
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 Workers in Delhi Deeply Disappointed with Denial of Promised Benefits
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…
Why Some Crucial Aspects of the Second Labour Commission Are Still Very Relevant
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…
Everyday Exclusions of Migrant Workers in Ahmedabad’s Industrial Clusters
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…
Emerging Unity of Farmers and Workers in India Should be Widely Welcomed
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 protest retrenchment and Cancelling of Union Membership by management in Manesar
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…
Commemorating 40th anniversary of Mumbai Textile Workers Strike
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 and Zydus Wellness protest illegal retrenchment
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…
The Struggle of ITI Workers
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…
Can Workers Protect Legislation Enacted After Their Long Struggle
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…
Stagnant Wages, Rising Prices, More Disruptions
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…
Construction Workers Deeply Hurt by Denial of Promised Legal Benefits
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…
The Union Makes Us Strong: Understanding Trade Unionism in a Global Context
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…
Workers of India Declare Their Determination to Protect Not Just Their Rights but the Entire Economy as Well
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…
WHO/ILO study says nearly 2 million workers globally die from work-related issues each year
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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