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Sit Where We Stand: The segregated back rooms for sanitation staff in urban spaces
The absence of dignified break rooms for sanitation staff in urban spaces is a visible residue of caste-exclusionary practices that have become normalised. Women who work here—whether in universities or elsewhere—are often left with no option but to rest on bathroom floors.
UP: Mid-day meal cooks not paid wages for eight months of wages
While government officials claim that the women will soon receive their wages, cooks-cum-helpers how long they can survive without money.
UP: Anganwadi workers, MDM cooks and ASHA workers non paid wages for months!
Workers decry the government's failure to address fiscal issues addressed in their own manifestoes
Delhi workers gherao Kejriwal’s house, demand regularisation
Workers condemned the AAP government for repeatedly failing to address contract workers’ concerns despite including them in election manifestos
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
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