Working Class

Anganwadi Workers on Indefinite Strike in Maharashtra

THE All India Federation of Anganwadi Workers and Helpers has, in a statement issued on January 25, congratulated the nearly two lakh anganwadi workers and helpers in Maharashtra for their successful indefinite strike. It has demanded that the chief minister of Maharashtra should urgently intervene and settle the issue.
 
The anganwadi workers and helpers of Maharashtra are on an indefinite strike from January 6, 2014 demanding an increase in wages and implementation of the pension scheme which was declared as early as in 2005.

‘Ensure Passage of Street Vendors Bill’

CPI(M) MP and general secretary of CITU, Tapan Sen, has written the following letter to prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh on 25th December seeking his intervention in urgently passing the Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Bill, 2013 in Rajya Sabha. A copy of this letter has been sent to union labour and employment minister, Oscar Fernandes.

AIRBEA Holds 31st Conference

THE All India Reserve Bank Employees Association (AIRBEA) held its 31st conference in Kolkata on December 6 to 8, 2013. It was almost half a century ago, in 1966, when an AIRBEA conference was last held in Kolkata. The host unit rose to the occasion magnificently and extended to the delegates and guests a warm and cordial reception and hospitality. Apart from aesthetic decorations and illumination, it organised fascinating cultural presentations which won the hearts of one and all.

ICDS Workers & Beneficiaries to jointly Fight against ‘ICDS Mission’

IN a unique demonstration of unity, the workers employed in the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) of the Government of India and the beneficiaries of ICDS have decided to jointly fight against its privatisation in the name of ‘ICDS Mission’. The beneficiaries of the scheme are women and children mostly from poor families of agricultural workers, peasants and unorganised sector workers.

CZIEA 8TH CONFERENCE CALL:‘Work for Pro-Worker Govt at Centre’

THE eighth conference of Central Zone Insurance Employees Association (CZIEA) called upon insurance employees across the country to work for formation of such a government at the centre that would have a positive attitude towards the working class movement and that would be opposed to neo-liberal policies. It also called for exposing the ulterior motive of the corporate India to divide the Indian political landscape into a BJP-Congress affair.

AP:Domestic Workers’ Achieve Partial Benefits through Struggles

THE Sneha Domestic Workers Welfare Organisation, affiliated to AIDWA, was formed in Andhra Pradesh in the year 2001 to work on the problems facing the tens of thousands of domestic workers in the state. Around 90 per cent of the domestic workers are women, who due to rising unemployment and rising prices of essential commodities are forced to migrate from rural areas to cities like Hyderabad in search of livelihood.

SIGTUR HOLDS 10TH CONGRESS:For Strengthening Global Campaign against Neo-Liberalism

FROM December 2 to 6, 2013, the Southern Initiative on Globalisation and Trade Union Rights (SIGTUR) held its tenth congress at Perth, Australia, with more than 120 delegates from 14 countries from Asia, Africa, Australia and Latin America representing the south participating in the meeting. A 13 member delegation of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) took part in this congress which was hosted by the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU).

Indefinite Struggle by ‘Bisi Oota’ Workers In Karnataka Achieves Hike in Wages

BEHOLD the woman with a 3 year old girl-child in her lap sitting on the road in Gandhinagar, the heart of Bangalore city – until heart beats with their heartfelt woes. For the heartless ‘High-Tech’ Bangalore and to its officials, she appears as a stubborn woman sitting amongst other women and is a hindrance to the free-flow of traffic.

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