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Amey Tirodkar
Maharashtra: Won’t Backtrack, Say Striking ASHA Workers After Talks with Govt Make no Headway
17 Jun 2021
Almost 70,000 ASHAs are on strike since 5 days. They want job security, hike in payment and COVID duty allowance.
Sruti MD
Tamil Nadu: Royal Enfield Management Attempting to Destroy Trade Union, Claim Workers
15 Jun 2021
The management has allegedly set up two parallel trade unions and is forcefully inducting these young workers into it. They are also accusing the management of forcefully deducting union levy from…
Neelambaran A
TN: Auto Drivers Reel Under Lockdown and Spiralling Fuel Prices
11 Jun 2021
Auto rickshaw drivers held a state-wide protest on June 10 demanding a cash relief of Rs 7,500 for the lockdown period and an extension till December on loans, insurance and licence renewals.
Ronak Chhabra
CITU’s National Campaign Culminates with ‘Demands Day’ Programme
10 Jun 2021
Protests were held at labour colonies and work sites on Thursday withslogans being raised against the way the Modi government has handled the pandemic so far
Saurav Kumar
COVID-19: Distressed Migrant Workers Protest in Bangalore, Demand Relief
06 Jun 2021
Thousands of workers from Brookfield and Whitefield slums are construction workers who claimed that they have been excluded from benefits like ration distribution, testing and vaccines.
Ronak Chhabra
Haryana: 'Our Labour Remains Unseen', Say Rural Sanitation Workers
03 Jun 2021
On Thursday, after meeting state panchayat department officials, the sanitation workers' union said that it would intensify their agitation if their demands were not met immediately.
K. Kalpana
My Mother, Comrade Mythily
02 Jun 2021
Veteran communist leader Mythily Sivaraman’s daughter Kalpana recalls how it was growing up in a communist household, and how she had always seen her mother typing, reading, writing, making notes, on…
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CPI(M) Leader Mythily Sivaraman, a Crusader of Women’s and Workers’ Rights, Passes Away
30 May 2021
The veteran CITU and AIDWA leader was suffering from Alzheimer’s for a long time, but was taken away by COVID-19 on Sunday.
Sruti MD
COVID-19: Workers Resist, Yet TN Govt Permits Automobile Production Amid Pandemic Peak
29 May 2021
These factories have become COVID-19 super-spreader hubs with thousands employed under a single roof, leading to workers’ unions intensifying their protests demanding to shut the factories and…
Ronak Chhabra
ASHAs to Stage One-Day Nationwide Strike on May 24
20 May 2021
The health sector ‘volunteers’ are demanding regularisation in the workforce along with safety gears; about 80 ASHAs succumbed to COVID-19 in April-May this year, says a trade unionist.