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Workers Cry for Justice!
The latest issue (dated April 25, 2026) of the popular magazine ‘Frontline’ has an incisive article entitled, ‘What Noida’s worker strikes tell us about the Labour Codes’ broken promise’....
UP: Pending Salary, Alleged Harassment, UPSRTC Contract Bus Driver Dies by Suicide
The 35-year-old is among several hundred bus drivers and conductors who have not been paid salaries and are forced to borrow from money lenders.
India’s Poor Paid for G20 With Homes and Livelihoods Halted
More people will be left homeless and unemployed than before India decided to host the G20 Summit in Delhi.
Long Wait for Wages, Gratuity for Telangana Anganwadi Workers
Despite being the backbone of efforts to reduce infant and maternal mortalities and impart pre-school education, Anganwadi teachers and helpers are not considered government employees.
Hundreds of women safai karmacharis take part in #StopKillingUs campaign in Delhi
Hundreds of women safai karmacharis gathered at the Jantar...
Mizoram Bridge Collapse: 18 of 23 dead Bodies of Migrant Labourers Returned to Bengal
Gut-wrenching scenes, as 18 out 23 dead young men from Bengal reach Ratua, Engrejbazaar, and Kalichak villages in Malda.
Delhi: SKM, Central TUs Call for end to ‘Corporate-Communal Nexus’, ‘Oust BJP’
National convention held in Talkatora Stadium decides to launch joint struggles against privatisation, labour codes and for legal guarantee for MSP, among others.
Duty of GOI to ensure that innocent fishermen are not punished: SC
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The perennial tragedy of innocent fishworkers from India and Pakistan, being punished and jailed, for no crime but that they, by virtue of their work, sometimes enter the other country’s water space, has not been effectively mitigated for decades; the SC however dismissed the petition since it involves another country outside its jurisdiction
Evolution of labour exploitation: from slavery to platform economies
The gig economy model highlights the significance of idle time (when a gig worker waits for the next order) in reducing wait time, enhancing customer satisfaction, and increasing platform valuation.
How and why Indian women are made to go hungry
Underpaid and unpaid work -- in India, on average, 66% of women's work is unpaid, compared to 12% of men’s work even as they invest 90 per cent of their income back into the families as compared to just 40 % by men, has rendered Indian women more acutely prone to hunger, malnutrition and anaemia
Rajasthan passes Minimum Guaranteed Income Bill, brings social security measures under ambit of rights
CM Gehlot deems the bill to be historic, guarantees 125 days of work for all families, a minimum of Rs 1,000 as a pension to the elderly, women, widows, and disabled people
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