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 […]
The toxic gas leak at the Atchuthapuram Special Economic Zone (APSEZ) on June 3, 2022, once again shows the pathetic industrial safety culture in and around Visakhapatnam and Anakapalli districts. Friday’s leak resulted in about 200 women employees at the Brandix Apparel plant rushing out in panic after being exposed to noxious fumes.Medical and health […]
Narendra Modi had promised the country’s workforce one crore jobs a year through “Make in India”, etc. But the self-proclaimed ‘Mazdoor No.1’, after occupying the throne, promptly pushed on the gears of neo-liberal crony capitalist extraction that was initiated by his predecessor Manmohan Singh. 2018, being the final year before the next General Elections, had […]
On November 29, around 1,200 workers of the Hipad Technology India at Noida Sector-63, which makes Xiaomi and Oppo phones, went on protest against en-mass sacking of workers without any notice. Mainstream media reported rampage, pelting of stones and barging into the factory by the workers when they were stopped at the gate. Two days […]
On 12 January, 2018, nearly two weeks after the Bhima Koregoan Elgaar Parishad in Pune, the ATS of Mumbai police arrested five workers belonging to the Reliance Energy, accusing them of having Maoists links. The arrests, under UAPA, hardly attracted any media attention, unlike the later arrests in June and August of lawyers, professors and […]
ফলতা সেজ(এস.ই.জেড.)-এর চেভিয়েট(Cheviot) কোম্পানীর শ্রমিকবিরোধী নীতি ও শোষণের বিরুদ্ধে সংগঠিত ভাবে লড়ছেন চেভিয়েটের শ্রমিকরা। ম্যানেজমেন্ট ও সরকারের মিলিত প্রচেষ্টা দমিয়ে রাখতে পারছে না তাঁদের অধিকারের দাবিতে আন্দোলন। লিখছেন সঞ্জয় পাঠক। গত ৬ জুন ফলতা ‘সেজ’-এর চেভিয়েট কোম্পানীতে ‘চেভিয়েট কোম্পানী কন্ট্রাক্টরস সংগ্রামী শ্রমিক ইউনিয়ন’-এর সভাপতি অশোক কবিকে অন্যায় ভাবে বরখাস্ত করার প্রতিবাদে এবং তাঁকে কাজে পুনর্বহালের দাবিতে […]
A group of ABP employees of the Barjora unit of ABP in Bankura district, whose services have been terminated, have parked themselves beside the ABP Kolkata office for almost a month now. Despite, or perhaps on account of being part of the media establishment, their protests have gone totally unreported. Twenty-two of them were hired […]