The strike at Starbucks comes as Amazon workers are also striking at multiple delivery hubs across U.S. over the e-commerce giant’s refusal to engage in contract negotiations with their union. Groundxero | Dec. 20, 2024 Starbucks workers launched five days of strikes across cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, and Seattle in the United States on […]
“We are fighting against a vicious union-busting campaign, and we are going to win,” said one Amazon warehouse worker. By Jake Johnson Dec 19, 2024 The Teamsters launched what the union described as “the largest strike against Amazon in U.S. history” on Thursday morning to protest the e-commerce behemoth’s unlawful refusal to bargain with organized drivers […]
সরকার, শ্রম বিভাগ, কোম্পানি মালিকের শ্রমিক স্বার্থ বিরোধী কার্যকলাপের বিরুদ্ধে চার জন মহিলা ও তিন জন পুরুষ শ্রমিক গত ২৫ দিন ধরে আমরণ অনশন করছেন। অনশনরত মহিলা শ্রমিকদের অবস্থা অত্যন্ত আশঙ্কাজনক। উদাসীন বিজেপির ডবল ইঞ্জিন সরকার, কোম্পানি কর্তৃপক্ষ ও সংবাদমাধ্যমের উপেক্ষা সত্তেও শ্রমিকরা হকের লড়াই চালিয়ে যাচ্ছেন। গ্রাউন্ডজিরোর প্রতিবেদন। Groundxero | Nov. 12, 2024 উত্তরাখন্ডের রুদ্রপুরের […]
It’s about how Democratic Party elites abandoned the working-class over the past four decades while enriching financial elites, promoting runaway inequality, and tolerating a tsunami of mass layoffs. The Democrats assumed the working class had nowhere else to go. They were wrong! By Les Leopold Nov 06, 2024 Common Dreams I feel like […]
Aircraft giant Boeing’s factory workers have called off their seven weeks-long strike on November 5. Nearly 59 per cent of the employees voted in favour of accepting the new contract that includes a 43.65% wage increase over four years—a significant improvement over the 25% increase that the aerospace giant offered in September. “Strikes work,” labor journalist Kim […]
Countless lives of workers are lost or irreversibly altered due to inadequate occupational safety measures and hazardous working conditions in factories, construction sites, fire-cracker manufacturing units, mines or while cleaning sewage. In three fatal accidents at workplaces in Gujarat, at least 15 workers have reportedly died and many injured so far in the month of October […]
A day-long program ‘Chalo IMT Manesar’ was organised in support of over one-month long retrenched Maruti workers’ struggle demanding their reinstatement by the company. These workers were terminated twelve years back following a violent incident inside the Manesar plant. The dismissed workers were later acquitted by the court. Groundxero | October 18, 2024 Maruti Suzuki […]
Labour activists, journalists, writers and lawyers, under a group named ‘Delhi for Workers’, organised a solidarity meeting for the ongoing workers’ struggles across sectors in India at the Press Club of India, New Delhi, to highlight these significant struggles, and inviting members of the press and concerned citizens to know and write more about these […]
সেবাস্টিয়ানদের মৃত্যু আজ আবার কর্পোরেট কর্মীদের সামনে তাদের অস্তিত্বের স্বার্থে কিছু গুরুতর প্রশ্ন সামনে এনেছে। সময়ের দাবি এগুলো নিয়ে ভাবনা চিন্তা করা, শ্রেণি চেতনায় সংগঠিত হয়ে বাকি শ্রমজীবী মানুষের সঙ্গে লড়াইয়ের ময়দানে হাজির হওয়া। লিখলেন সুমন কল্যাণ মৌলিক। এই ভয়ংকর ছুটে চলা জীবনে তরুন সাক্সেনা নামটি সম্ভবত অতীতের খাতায় চলে গেছে। কয়েকদিন আগে উত্তরপ্রদেশের […]
It’s the first strike at the three dozen East and Gulf Coast ports in U.S. from Maine to Texas since 1977 with thousands of port workers forming picket lines from Massachusetts to Texas demanding higher pay rise and protection against automation of jobs, among other benefits. Groundxero | October 3, 2024 Dockworkers at East and […]
A ‘Mazdoor Sabha’ was organised in Manesar on 30 September by the Maruti workers, who were terminated from jobs in 2012. The retrenched workers declared to intensify their protests in the coming days and to start a hunger strike from 10 October 2024 if they are not reinstated by the company. Groundxero | October 1, 2024 […]
There is no doubt that corruption is fairly widespread in MGNREGA in West Bengal and also in many other states. Genuine rural workers in WB cannot be penalised for the corruption of few officials. The Chief Justice-led division bench of the Calcutta High Court today observed that MGNREGA must continue to operate even while past irregularities are […]
In one of the biggest workers’ strikes in recent years in India, over a thousand workers of Samsung are on strike since September 9 asking the company to recognize their union, raise wages and reduce working hours. Groundxero | September 22, 2024 More than 1000 workers in Samsung home appliances factory in Sriperumbudur near the […]
The workers at Manesar plant of automobile company Maruti, who were terminated in 2012 following violence during the workers’ struggle, have started an indefinite dharna at Manesar Tehsil Office demanding to get back their jobs. Groundxero | September 20, 2024 On 18th September 2024, after 12 long years, more than 100 retrenched workers […]
Fatal accidents at workplaces are reported every other day. On 8th September, four workers were killed and two others injured at a factory in Chhattisgarh’s Surguja district. The new labour laws will make it even easier for factory owners, employers and management to get away with overlooking and ignoring workers’ safety and social security. While […]