Workers of the Indigo Airlines including flight crew, technicians and other ground staff have taken the path of struggle in defence of and to assert their rights.
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Railway workers in France go on strike demanding higher wages
On July 6, four workers’ unions of the SNCF (the state owned railways of France) — CGT, UNSA, SUD-Rail and CFDT – went on strike. The strike paralysed train services throughout the country.
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Elections and the Challenge We Face
Interview of Comrade Lal Singh, General Secretary of the Communist Ghadar Party of India by Mazdoor Ekta Lehar
Continue readingNo to Privatisation of Indian Railways
First published in October 2021
Workers of the Indian Railways are waging a determined struggle against privatisation. All the federations and unions of railway workers have come together under one banner of struggle against rail privatisation — National Coordination Committee of Railwaymen’s Struggle.
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ASHA workers denied incentive promised by Delhi government
Around 6,000 Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) in Delhi have not been paid monthly incentives since April 2021. The incentives are due to them for visiting COVID-19 patients under home isolation and for carrying out surveys in containment zones.
Continue readingAll India Forum Against Privatisation supports the struggle of electricity workers
We are publishing a statement of solidarity with electricity workers issued by the All-India Forum against Privatisation on 3rd Aug 2021.
Continue readingMeeting on automobile industry workers’ problems in the Chennai region
Thozhilalar Ottrumai Iyakkam (Workers Unity Movement) held a web meeting in the first week of June 2021 on the issues faced by workers in automobile industry in the current pandemic conditions.
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Fire kills workers in sanitizer factory in Pune
The SVS Aqua Technologies Sanitizer Company located in Pirangut MIDC of Pune in Maharashtra was gutted by a blazing fire on 7th June, killing 18 workers. It is reported that 5 workers are still missing. 15 of the victims are women workers. 37 workers were inside the plant when the fire broke out.
Continue readingCondemn laws allowing 12-hour shift
The capitalist class has launched a massive onslaught on the rights of workers of our country. In the conditions of the declaration of a health emergency accompanied by a country wide lock down, it is ramrodding one anti worker measure after another down the throats of the working class. One of the most basic rights of workers has been the limiting of the working day to 8 hours, and the working week to 48 hours, which is codified in the Factories Act, 1948.
Continue readingStranded daily-wage workers must not be treated like bonded labour!
When the Union government decided to partially relax the lockdown to resume economic activities in parts of the country from 20 April, it issued a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) on 19 April for lakhs of workers stranded all over the country.
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