-The Indian Express The slowdown has hit these workers the hardest. Faced with the prospect of not being able to earn any money until the end of the month, most decided it was better to return to their homes. Mumbai, Pune: As shops and establishments prepared to shut down following a Maharashtra government order that all private businesses and companies must remain closed from Saturday until March 31, an exodus began in...
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Working People's Charter placed before Nirmala Sitharaman, head of COVID-19 Economic Response Task Force, to provide tangible relief to working classes & unorganised workers
-Working Peoples’ Charter Secretariat, dated 21st March, 2020 An open letter has been issued by civil society and trade union activists to the Finance Minister Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman, who is also heading the COVID-19 Economic Response Task Force. In that letter, a charter of demands has been put before the government to provide immediate relief to the working classes and the informal sector workers in the wake of COVID-19 outbreak in...
More »Coronavirus: They cannot work from home. Or follow social distancing. Here is why -Aarefa Johari
-Scroll.in For those in the Unorganised Sector, staying off work could mean having no food on the table for several days. Raju Kamble has not heard the phrase “social distancing”, but he is aware of the government and media advisories urging people to work from home, avoid crowds and maintain a safe distance from others to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. Ask him if he practices any of it, and...
More »What economic slump really means for workers -Shiv Inder Singh
-Newsclick.in Punjab is industrialised and its agriculture is mechanised. The state is in the grip of a downturn which has hurt the migrant poor most. The Union Budget is the talk of the town, but the economic downturn is not. The prevailing economic situation has hurt all sectors of the business and economy. One symptom of the downturn is that unemployment has broken a 45-year record. Even if these facts are known,...
More »Unorganised workers demand recognition of labour rights -Mohammed Iqbal
-The Hindu Workers’ union in Rajasthan adopts motto ‘Let there be dignity of labour and decent wages for work’ Jaipur: Unorganised workers from different sectors in Rajasthan, who formed their first-ever union two years ago, have sought recognition of their labour rights for getting minimum wages, social security, monthly ration through public distribution system and implementation of law with the guarantee for 100 days of work in a year to each household. The...
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