A day-long program ‘Chalo IMT Manesar’ was organised in support of over one-month long retrenched Maruti workers’ struggle demanding their reinstatement by the company. These workers were terminated twelve years back following a violent incident inside the Manesar plant. The dismissed workers were later acquitted by the court. Groundxero | October 18, 2024 Maruti Suzuki […]
Labour activists, journalists, writers and lawyers, under a group named ‘Delhi for Workers’, organised a solidarity meeting for the ongoing workers’ struggles across sectors in India at the Press Club of India, New Delhi, to highlight these significant struggles, and inviting members of the press and concerned citizens to know and write more about these […]
সেবাস্টিয়ানদের মৃত্যু আজ আবার কর্পোরেট কর্মীদের সামনে তাদের অস্তিত্বের স্বার্থে কিছু গুরুতর প্রশ্ন সামনে এনেছে। সময়ের দাবি এগুলো নিয়ে ভাবনা চিন্তা করা, শ্রেণি চেতনায় সংগঠিত হয়ে বাকি শ্রমজীবী মানুষের সঙ্গে লড়াইয়ের ময়দানে হাজির হওয়া। লিখলেন সুমন কল্যাণ মৌলিক। এই ভয়ংকর ছুটে চলা জীবনে তরুন সাক্সেনা নামটি সম্ভবত অতীতের খাতায় চলে গেছে। কয়েকদিন আগে উত্তরপ্রদেশের […]
It’s the first strike at the three dozen East and Gulf Coast ports in U.S. from Maine to Texas since 1977 with thousands of port workers forming picket lines from Massachusetts to Texas demanding higher pay rise and protection against automation of jobs, among other benefits. Groundxero | October 3, 2024 Dockworkers at East and […]
A ‘Mazdoor Sabha’ was organised in Manesar on 30 September by the Maruti workers, who were terminated from jobs in 2012. The retrenched workers declared to intensify their protests in the coming days and to start a hunger strike from 10 October 2024 if they are not reinstated by the company. Groundxero | October 1, 2024 […]
There is no doubt that corruption is fairly widespread in MGNREGA in West Bengal and also in many other states. Genuine rural workers in WB cannot be penalised for the corruption of few officials. The Chief Justice-led division bench of the Calcutta High Court today observed that MGNREGA must continue to operate even while past irregularities are […]
In one of the biggest workers’ strikes in recent years in India, over a thousand workers of Samsung are on strike since September 9 asking the company to recognize their union, raise wages and reduce working hours. Groundxero | September 22, 2024 More than 1000 workers in Samsung home appliances factory in Sriperumbudur near the […]
The workers at Manesar plant of automobile company Maruti, who were terminated in 2012 following violence during the workers’ struggle, have started an indefinite dharna at Manesar Tehsil Office demanding to get back their jobs. Groundxero | September 20, 2024 On 18th September 2024, after 12 long years, more than 100 retrenched workers […]
Fatal accidents at workplaces are reported every other day. On 8th September, four workers were killed and two others injured at a factory in Chhattisgarh’s Surguja district. The new labour laws will make it even easier for factory owners, employers and management to get away with overlooking and ignoring workers’ safety and social security. While […]
In the U.S., it is politics—manifested in the form of a vicious class struggle orchestrated from the economic elite and its supporters—that keeps workers from joining or creating a union. By C.J. Polychroniou With Labor Day 2024 upon us, it is important to critically reflect on the current state of the U.S. labor movement […]
ইউনুসের মডেলকে বৈধতা দেওয়ার জন্য তাঁকে নোবেল শান্তি পুরস্কারও দেওয়া হয়েছে, যা ওবামার মত যুদ্ধবাজও পেয়েছেন। দেশের যাবতীয় সম্পদ ও ক্ষমতা কিছু লোকের কাছে কুক্ষিগত থাকবে, তাঁদের কাছে বাকিদের দরবার করতে হবে একটু স্বাচ্ছল্যের জন্য, এ ব্যবস্থা ঋণ দিয়ে শোধরাবার নয়। সেখানে দরিদ্রতম অংশটির সাথে সুদের ব্যবসাকে দারিদ্র্য দূরীকরণ প্রক্রিয়া বলে চালানো শুধু মিথ্যা প্রচার […]
18 workers were killed and more than 30 others injured after a massive fire broke out following an explosion at a pharma unit in a SEZ at Andhra Pradesh. “We do not want empty promises from authorities, but concrete actions. This has become routine in recent years, with promises of improved safety at industries but […]
প্যারিস অলিম্পিক্স এর জাঁকজমকের অন্ধকারে হারিয়ে যাচ্ছে ইমাদ আর লামিন দের সমস্ত স্বপ্ন। আকাশছোঁয়া আড়ম্বর তৈরি করছে ওরা, কত আলো চোখ ধাঁধানো উল্লাস। কিন্তু ওদের শ্রম, ঘাম, রক্ত, খিদের গল্প গুলো প্যারিস অলিম্পিক্স এর ঝকঝকে ইতিহাস মনে রাখবে না। এটাও তো এক মজার খেলা!! লেখক: চাইমা ঘরসাল্লাউই অনুবাদ : আকাশনীল গোটা বিশ্ব ২০২৪-এর […]
Frustrated and humiliated by the attempts of the management to break their union, a contract worker hanged himself, leaving behind a heart-rending suicide note. Originally published by Workers Unity in Hindi on July 19, 2024. July 16, 2024: Frustrated and humiliated by the attempts of the management to break the contract workers’ union […]
One of the sanitation workers, Deepu, who survived the tragedy at Mughalsarai, said that if the private hospital had wanted, at least Vinod’s life could have been saved but due to the presence of feces on his body, the doctor shooed him away from a distance. Groundxero | May 15, 2024 The death of sanitation […]