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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.
Pay five-months salary or we stop work: JNU sanitation workers
Members of the AICCTU condemned the college authorities for failing to pay employee dues as well as failing to provide them basic necessities such as identity cards
SC adjourns plea filed in 2019 seeking criminal action for employing manual scavengers
The plea seeks invoking of charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against employers of manual scavengers, who end up dying on the job
Punjab creche workers announce dharna if state gov’t fails to pay dues
Anganwadi workers union officials said that creche workers and helpers have been waiting for an honorarium payment for the last two and a half years!
Municipal officials look other way while manual scavengers still engaged for work: Madras HC
The Court opined that heads of corporations and municipalities should be personally held responsible for deaths of manual scavengers
Kerala HC directs Water Authority to compensate families of manual scavengers who died cleaning manhole
The court directed the state to pay compensation of Rs. 10 lakh in addition to the compensation paid by the contractor
97 migrant workers died on Shramik trains during Covid-19: Centre in LS
Families of the deceased migrant labourers have not received any financial assistance as the statute mandates compensation only in cases of ‘train accidents’
Punjab: Anganwadi workers continue working without food or funds
Anganwadi workers leader tells SabrangIndia that the state government has failed to provide adequate ration to centres in addition to failing in its promise to provide funds in this year’s Budget.
Anti-Privatisation Day: Over 1 lakh protests, video message to UNHRC and more
On March 15, farmers, trade unions and workers held protests, demonstrations and grassroot-level meetings across the country
50,000 railway stations across India witness demonstrations by India’s peasantry!
As per trade union reports, workers and farmers continued their protests late into the evening to express their grievance against the Centre’s pro-corporate laws.
Contract employees flood Patiala streets, demand regularisation of workers
Despite promises of a meeting on March 18, leaders warned the Punjab government that Chief Minister Singh will have to resign if their demands are not met.
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