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 […]
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 […]
“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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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। […]
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 […]