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প্যারিস অলিম্পিকের নোংরা সত্য অনথিভুক্ত অভিবাসী শ্রম

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 […]


A Worker Hanged Himself, Suicide Note Blames Management

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 […]


Manual Scavenging: 8 workers killed in the last 10 days in UP; one death in Delhi

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 […]


‘ARGENTINA STOPPED’: Unions Hold Second General Strike Over Milei Austerity

“It is a day of resistance and demand,” said trade groups that organized the action “in defense of democracy, labor rights, and the living wage.”   By JESSICA CORBETT May 10, 2024   Argentina’s primary trade union federation on Thursday held another nationwide general strike, the second called since President Javier Milei, a far-right economist, took office in December […]


The Historic nation-wide railway strike of May 1974

The 50th anniversary of the historic railway workers strike in 1974 should remind the working class of the need to resurrect the spirit of that struggle as the right-wing political establishment under the neo-liberal economic world order pushes for implementation of anti-labour reforms in India.   By Harsh Thakor  May 8, 2024   One of […]


Livelihoods of hundreds of sanitation workers at stake! 

Even though the national capital would come to a standstill if the work of sewer workers and informal waste pickers is not done regularly, there is no provision to properly integrate them into the government setup.   New Delhi, 27th April 2024: Sanitation workers in Delhi have been facing unemployment because of the inability of the […]


Unveiling Reality: Tea Garden Survey Snapshot

A survey report on the conditions of tea garden workers of North Bengal released a week before the Lok Sabha elections provides a reflection not just on the deplorable conditions of tea garden workers but also a sad commentary on the failure of the two major contenders in this election, one of whom controls the […]


“Workers’ Rights Manifesto” – 2024

The suggestions and demands given in this ‘Workers’ Rights Manifesto’ have emerged from the discussions held over the past few months with many organisations and worker groups in their work areas.   Groundxero | April 8, 2024   The preamble of our constitution mentions the values of justice, liberty, equality, fraternity, dignity, secularism and socialism. These […]


At least 24 workers died in accidents at workplaces in last 7 days

With economic growth and industrial progress, India has also witnessed an unfortunate consequence: a disturbing rise in fatal accidents at workplaces. Tens of thousands of workers die at a horrifying rate in accidents at workplaces across the country.   Groundxero | March 24, 2024   In the last 7 days, between March 18 and March 24, […]


উৎপাদন নীতি বদল ও ‘গেটবাহার’ শ্রমিকদের কাজে নেওয়ার দাবিতে শ্যামনগর জুটমিলে শ্রমিক বিক্ষোভ

বুকটান করে লড়ছেন শ্যামনগর জুটমিলের শ্রমিকরা। মহল্লায় তাঁদের স্বপক্ষে অন্য মজদুররা জড়ো হচ্ছেন। তাঁদের মূল দাবি অবিলম্বে এই চায়না মেশিনের মাধ্যমে কম শ্রমিক দিয়ে বেশি কাজ করিয়ে নেওয়া চলবে না। ১৫ জন গেটবাহার করে দেওয়া শ্রমিকদের কাজে নিতে হবে।   Groundxero | প্রতিবেদন ২১ মার্চ, ২০২৪   এক জন শ্রমিক চালাতেন দু’টি মেশিন, এবার চালাতে হবে ছ’টি। […]


SC directs governments to give ration cards to 8 crore migrant workers

The court ordered all migrant /unorganised workers registered on the eShram portal must be given the ration cards within 2 months   Groundxero | March 20, 2024   In a landmark judgement, the Supreme Court of India today, while hearing a petition (MA 94/2022) in the case ‘Re Problems and Miseries of Migrant Labourers’, directed […]


Rail Blockade by Agricultural Labourers in Punjab

A report by Harsh Thakor March 12, 2024   At a time when the land-owning farmers in Punjab are intensifying their struggle to get a legal guarantee of Minimum Support Price for all their crops, along with other demands, the agricultural workers of the state under the banner of the Zameen Prapt Sangharsh Committee (ZPSC) […]


“A Scheme To Take Away Our Land” – Tea Garden Workers Oppose Govt. Scheme

Groundxero| March 10, 2024   “The Government through its so called scheme for distributing homestead pattas among landless tea garden labourers In North Bengal is not giving us land – it is a scheme to take away our land.” This was the general agreement on 10th March 2024 in a Birpara-Madarihat block level meeting of […]


Hunger Death of a Worker at Madhu Tea Estate

Dhani Oraon, a 58 years old permanent worker (PF No. WB/889/2514) from Madhu Tea Garden, died of starvation on 2nd February 2024, reflecting once more on the apathy of the state government and the garden management to the terrible state of tea garden workers.   Groundxero | 7th February, 2024   Dhani Ora (58), a permanent […]


Mamata announces payment of pending wages of 21 lakh NREGA in West Bengal

Groundxero | 3rd February, 2024   West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday announced that her government would clear the pending wages of 21 lakh NREGA workers of West Bengal from the state fund. She said that unpaid wages will be transferred to the bank accounts of the MGNREGA workers in the State by […]