We are publishing a statement of solidarity with electricity workers issued by the All-India Forum against Privatisation on 3rd Aug 2021.
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Meeting 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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