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Ronak Chhabra
Demonstrations at Over 1 Lakh Places Across Country as Trade Unions Protest Against Anti-People Policies
03 Jul 2020
Demonstrations were staged by public sector employees, industrial workers, scheme workers, and agricultural workers’ among others at the call of 10 central trade unions.
Ronak Chhabra
Job Losses, Pay Cuts, and No Social Security Net Plague Workers Amid Pandemic
29 Jun 2020
New Delhi: Wage cuts and massive lay-offs by management citing losses due to pandemic-induced lockdown have not stopped the Narendra Modi government from dealing another blow to organised sector wo
Ronak Chhabra
COVID-19 Lockdown: Labour Market Disruption meets Centre’s ‘PR Exercise’
18 Jun 2020
Employment relations have become fragile at the grass root level, with union leaders doubting the efficacy of the Centre’s employment policies; labour experts instead demand a quality-driven approach…
Newsclick Team
Labour Rights in India: Before, During and After Pandemic
29 May 2020
The second part of the webinar series on Pandemic and Equity talks about the attack on labour rights in India amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Prudhviraj Rupavath
Corporatisation of Ordnance Factories Against Country’s Defence Preparedness: Unions
18 May 2020
Trade unions have called upon workers and employees to unite against the Modi government’s desperate attempts of privatisation of defence sector, terming it as severely detrimental to national…
Newsclick Team
COVID-19 Update, Petrol Prices, and More
11 May 2020
In this episode of Daily Round-up, we talk about the increasing prices of petrol and diesel and the update on the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Newsclick Team
Governments are Using the Coronavirus Crisis to Impose Bad Policies
11 May 2020
Senior journalist Bhasha Singh spoke to Atul Sood, Professor at the Centre for the Study of Regional Development in the Jawaharlal Nehru University, about migrant workers and the deepening economic…
Newsclick Team
Let’s Talk: The Reason for Low Wages; Fired Amazon Worker Speaks
01 May 2020
In this episode, we talk to journalist Aunindyo Chakravarty on the reasons for the low wages received by most Indian workers.
Neelambaran A
COVID-19: TN Tea Plantation Workers Forced to Work Without Preventive Measures and Reliefs
03 Apr 2020
The managements of plantations have reportedly issued a circular stating that the workers are responsible for their well being during the period and the management cannot be held responsible.
Ronak Chhabra
'Anti-people' Budget Meets with Another Round of Protest as Session Resumes
02 Mar 2020
Ten central trade unions organised a nationwide protest against the Union Budget 2020-21 on March 2, alleging that the finance minister “is not worried about millions of workers, farmers.”