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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.
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
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
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