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Power Sector Employees Call Countrywide Strike on June 26 Against Privatisation

EEFI will also take part in the all-India strike being planned by central trade unions in May against the four labour codes.

Manual Scavengers: 340 deaths, yet Centre has no intention to make stricter laws!

The Social Justice Ministry has however submitted that a National Policy for mechanised sanitation eco system has been formulated

Overwhelming response to Feb 3 general strike

Impressed by the intensity of the day-long protests, the CITU and the SKM congratulate electricity employees in their struggle against the Centre’s “anti-people” laws.

Karnataka: Two manual scavengers choke to death in a manhole

The third worker, who survived is now battling for his life in the hospital

Support grows for Migrant Workers’ Right to Vote

Webinar examines roadblocks in ensuring migrant workers get to exercise their right to vote, a CJP Core Campaign

Five killed in Serum Institute fire in Pune

Migrant labourers fixing air-conditioning among the dead

Gujarat: 15 people including toddler killed after being run over by truck

A group of migrant labourers was asleep on a Surat footpath when the mishap occurred

Safai Karamchari Andolan campaigns against dry latrines

100-day campaign aims to end the unfair burden on Dalit women

Garbage piles up in Ahmedabad, as sanitation workers strike work

Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s sanitation workers strike has entered its fifth day today

A 2020 Report of 10 Worst Victims of Apathy: India’s Migrant Workers

How the unplanned and sudden lockdown led to chaos, suffering and even death

India yet to ratify the Convention on Migrant workers

As the migrant numbers in India have tripled over the years, it is yet to accede to the international treaty  

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