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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

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  

41 Orgns call for workers unions to join farmers protest

Over 41 networks and organisations from the unorganised sector have demanded a withdrawal of the three anti-farmer laws and for larger workers unions to join the mass protest

Wistron Factory Vandalism: Karnataka Gov’t registers FIR against 7,000 employees

Karnataka State IT/ITes Employee Union, and other organisations have condemned the criminal charges pressed against the contract workers

Wistron Factory violence: AICCTU blames State and management for exploitation

Compulsory 12-hour shifts, delay and non-payment of wages, no grievance redressal mechanism, night shifts for women are just some instances that pushed helpless workers to a point of desperation

Jharkhand: Unpaid for 9 months, Pakur forest labourers move HC

The PIL has been filed by a forest range officer who wrote several letters to authorities demanding the workers’ salaries

Meghalaya sets stringent guidelines for migrant workers

Cabinet approves draft rules as per recently passed law to check influx of migrant labourers

Manual Scavengers Act: Karnataka HC issues directions over implementation

The court noted that manual scavenging is most inhuman and that it infringes the fundamental rights guaranteed under Article 21

K’taka HC tells state govt to rebuild burnt down shanties to protect right to shelter

The huts of migrant workers were burnt down by miscreants during lockdown and the court held that it was the state’s duty to protect right to shelter

Employer and colleagues beat a man to death for demanding pending salary!

Killed for demanding his due, the man had come to Gurgaon hoping to get a job to support his family.

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