The fact that an official central government document like the Economic Survey calls for more intense exploitation of workers shows that the existing Indian state is not a representative of the whole people, as it claims. It is a state of the bourgeoisie. It considers workers only as a productive force to be exploited as intensely as possible – not as human beings who have a right to a decent life.
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Economic Survey calls for more intense exploitation of workers:
Rajasthan Platform Based Gig Workers (Registration and Welfare) Act, 2023:
A claim to address the problems of gig workers
Trade unions and organisations of the working class have to take up the issues of legal recognition of gig workers as workers, of their rights such as fixed working hours, safe working conditions, minimum wages, security of jobs, social security, right to form unions, mechanisms for redressal of grievances, etc.
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