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Citizens and experts rally to save Mumbai’s BEST buses from privatisation pitfalls
AMAB advocates for restoring public funding, ending exploitative contracts, and expanding bus services to meet the city’s growing needs
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Contract workers to gherao Kejriwal’s house
Contract workers demand regularisation, sweeper compensation and suspension of contract practice as per ruling party’s election promises
Unique 5-day Satyagrah by UNI employees ends in the hope that dues will be paid
Management accepts the backlog of 56 months’ salary, says it represented a “grave state of affairs”
Shankar Guha Niyogi: Gone, but not forgotten
On Niyogi’s thirtieth death anniversary, SabrangIndia looks back at the long legacy left behind by the trade union leader
Widows of three manual scavengers get compensation and rehabilitation from Bombay HC
In a year where the government refused to accept any deaths due to manual scavenging, the court stepped in to recognise their rights
Over 1 crore people register for jobs on eSHRAM portal!
Within a span of one month, the portal has received a flux of registrations, especially from the agriculture sector.
Is India exploiting its ASHA workers?
Successive governments have ignored these baseline health workers who receive low remunerations that are often delayed; they aren’t even given proper Covid kits
Anganwadi agitation: 20 villages in Punjab burn effigies of the government!
Anganwadi workers declare a series of protests until September 30 to show dissent against the state government
Eviction notices served to Hindustan Paper Mills units in Assam
Notices were served to officers, workers and employees at the Cachar and Nagaon facilities
Punjab: Contract employees to march to Vidhan Sabha demanding regularisation
Rejecting the recommendation of the Committee for Regularisation of Contract Employees, employees said they will rally towards the Vidhan Sabha in September
Livelihood a bigger issue than rations for migrant labourers: MRC
Experts appeal to governments to look into job security and better wages for migrant labourers along with food security
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