Author: amitbasole

By Pramod Mandade [Parmod was in Muzaffarnagar between Jan 9 and Jan 18, 2014]

*PRESS RELEASE* The United Tea Workers Front(UTWF) welcomes the announcement made by the Joint Labour Commissioner on 8th January 2014 that the first meeting for wage negotiations will be held at the Siliguri Circuit House on 25thFebruary 2014. This is good start to UTWF’s demands on the timing and venue of the negotiations. On *10th […]

*PRESS RELEASE* The United Tea Workers Front(UTWF) welcomes the announcement made by the Joint Labour Commissioner on 8th January 2014 that the first meeting for wage negotiations will be held at the Siliguri Circuit House on 25thFebruary 2014. This is good start to UTWF’s demands on the timing and venue of the negotiations. On *10th […]

Blind Workers Union (A Unit of All India Federation of Blind Workers) T-44, Panjabi Basti, Near Gopal Dairy, Baljeet Nagar, New Delhi-110008 Contact: 9313730069. Email: blindworkersunion@gmail.com 07.02.2014 PRESS STATEMENT Blind workers express concern over the recently debated Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill (2014) The Rajya Sabha has recently been debating the bill on the […]

Blind Workers Union (A Unit of All India Federation of Blind Workers) T-44, Panjabi Basti, Near Gopal Dairy, Baljeet Nagar, New Delhi-110008 Contact: 9313730069. Email: blindworkersunion@gmail.com 07.02.2014 PRESS STATEMENT Blind workers express concern over the recently debated Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill (2014) The Rajya Sabha has recently been debating the bill on the […]

Delhi Mazdoor Union Press Release Thousands of workers stage demonstration at Delhi secretariat for enacting Contract System abolition Act. AAP government turns its face from its own promise, the labour minister of Delhi government said that the anti-contract system act will harm the capitalists and hence the Kejriwal government will not present the contract labour […]

Over the past few months, we have received several fact-finding reports as well as articles about the Muzaffarnagar Riots of 2013. On this page we have collected all these together for easy reference. – Editors 1. Less Evident Forms of Violence : Muzzafarnagar riots – Sushmita Verma, Jenny Sulfath 2. Battered and Betrayed: A Report […]

By Hasina Khan and Saumya Uma

By Sushmita Verma, Jenny Sulfath The Muzzafarnagar riots of 7th September, 2013 have been talked about and covered as communal riots, the most intrinsic and brutal one in recent past. However, the questions of women and children have been conveniently sidelined as in any other riots. Where attention was given it was in the cases […]

Demonstration at Delhi Sachivalaya to demand implementation of electoral promises made by AAP to workers, Feb 6 6 February, 11am Main Demands: 1) Give permanent work to all contractual labourers in private and public sector 2) Impose minimum wage and other labour laws in organised and unorganised sector 3) Announce a time frame by which […]