Workers Resistance

Category: Asia

  • Protesting workers of Asian Paints detained by police in Chennai

    The workers have been protesting since April 28 over a host of issues
    Chennai 

    May 29, 2015

    About 50 workers of Asian Paints Ltd were detained by the police here on Thursday, when they were trying to protest in front of the chief labour commissioner’s office.

    V Rajesh, president, Asian Paints Employees Union, said the workers were on strike since April 28 and demanding reinstatement of dismissed workers, payment of bonus/ex gratia which he claimed had been pending for nearly two years.

    The union also demanded a dialogue immediately on wage revision and action against a company official who allegedly assaulted an employee. (more…)

  • Aanganbari workers protest in Shimla, police resort to suppression

    Tuesday, May 26, 2015  Aanganwadi workers union staged a fierce protest against the state government in Shimla today. Supporting the ongoing one month long strike of the Aanganwadi workers , union activists broke the section 144 and offered arrests. The protesting women reached the reporting room and raised slogans against the government protesting against it’s indifferent attitude towards the demands of aanganwadi workers regarding the payscale and other promises to the workers. (more…)

  • Pink slips to TCS workers – end of the “Golden era” of IT sector : Ahwan

    Last month of the previous year , a frontline company, in the IT industry , Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) handed over “pink slips” to 2574 employees in a bulk. The decision of the company turned out to be highly controversial and faced a lot of criticism and outrage from among the IT workers, democratic unions as well as a couple of media houses. Most of the employees who have been handed over “pink slips” were employees with more than 8 years of experience and were posted as decently high rank employees like associate consultants and project managers and were fetching fat salaries. Justifying their decision of firing these IT workers, TCS has come up with the excuse that their performance was not “up to the mark” for quite some time. On one hand where TCS plans to fire around 30,000 IT workers in the year of 2015, on the other hand it is also preparing 55,000 new recruits to be hired. This has led to widespread insecurity and discontentment among the IT workers.

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  • Naujawan Bharat Sabha protest against brutality on teachers by Haryana police

    Naujawan Bharat Sabha protest against brutality on teachers by Haryana police

    har520th May 2015, Delhi : Protest demonstrations were organized by activists of Naujawan Bharat Sabha at Haryana Bhavan, Delhi against the brutal lathicharge on Guest teachers by Khattar government. On 17th May, the BJP government of CM Manoharlal Khattar in the state of Haryana ordered brutal lathicharge  and suppression on the guest teachers who are struggling for their legitimate demands from the state government. (more…)

  • [Video] Militant strike of Turkish car workers

    Since the end of April a militant movement of metal workers in the car industry in Turkey has been developing, with its epicentre in Bursa. Workers are fighting for better wages and conditions and for democratic trade union representation.

  • Protesting teachers brutally beaten up by police in Haryana

    Protesting teachers brutally beaten up by police in Haryana

    17.05.2015 Karnal

    1Haryana police today brutally lathicharged contractual teachers in Karnal , in the state of Haryana. The teachers under the banner of Naujawan Bharat Sabha were peacefully protesting near CM house with their genuine demands under “rojgar bachao, wada nibhao” campaign (save employment, fulfill promises) since 8th of May. (more…)

  • ऑर्बिट बस काण्ड के विरोध में मजदूरों और जनसंगठनों का रोष-प्रदर्शन और घेराव

    ऑर्बिट बस काण्ड के विरोध में मजदूरों और जनसंगठनों का रोष-प्रदर्शन और घेराव

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    12 मई 2015, लुधियाना
    ऑरबिट बस काण्ड विरोधी एक्शन कमेटी, पंजाब के आह्वान पर आज पूरे पंजाब में डी.सी. कार्यालयों का घेराव किया गया और रोष प्रदर्शन किए गए। यहाँ लुधियाना में भी डेढ़ दर्जन से अधिक जनसंगठनों ने ‘एक्शन कमेटी’ के बैनर तले डी.सी. कार्यालय का घेराव किया। पहले भरत नगर चौंक पर रैली की गई। फिरोजपुर रोड पर पैदल मार्च के बाद डी.सी. कार्यालय का घेराव किया गया।

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  • Contract workers protest against Gujrat EDO Health

    LALAMUSA, May 12: Contract employees of Health Department in district Gujrat held a protest demonstration at Kutchery Chowk, Gujrat, against alleged misbehaviour of EDO Health and non-regularisation of their services.

    The protest started May 11 afternoon and was continuing till filing of this report in the evening. The protesters including women kept the road blocked for hours.

    The protest has been organised by the All Health Association Gujrat, while members of YDA, PMA, Nutrition Association, Allied Health Professionals Association and National Programme employees i.e. LHWs also participated in it.

    Hundreds of protesters, coming from BHUs, Sub-Centres and Rural Health Centres in district Gujrat were holding placards, and chanting slogans against EDO Health Gujrat.

    The protesters alleged that the EDO Health didn’t listen to them and he behaved like a dictator. They alleged that his attitude with female staffers was not suitable. They said contract employees in all parts of the province had been regularised but the EDO Health Gujrat made no effort in this regard. Economic murder of 437 contract employees and their children was not acceptable, they said.

    Dr Abid Ghauri and DCO’s representative held dialogue with All Health Association Gujrat President Chaudhry Jamil Ahmed, but no result was produced. Protesters continued their protest till in the evening.

    Later, DCO Liaquat Ali Chattha and Assistant Commissioner Mian Iqbal Mazhar paid a visit to the protesters and took some representatives to the DCO office for dialogue to end the protest. Talks were underway till filing of the report.

    When contacted, EDO Health Dr Ijaz Haider said he was in meeting with health secretary in Lahore.

    Published by Daily The News on May 12, 2015

  • Freed Pakistani power loom workers greeted by thousands of workers

    As reported recently, after a long fight, the group of power loom workers that had led the major strikes in Faisalabad were freed this week. These workers had been given hundreds of years’ jail sentences under the country’s draconian anti-terror legislation. They took their first steps out of jail on the 6th of May amid thousands of cheering supporters. Most power loom factories closed on that day so that workers could support their leaders.

  • Construction workers in Kobane issue a call for class solidarity

    As reported previously (see here and here) the fight by the mainly Kurdish population of Rojava, in Northern Syria, has attracted sizeable solidarity from labour organisations around the world. Now that the front lines of the battle have shifted away from the town of Kobane, the issue of rebuilding the town has become a priority. Mustafa Kaplan Akyol, the General President of the Union of Construction Workers, has called on construction workers to stop working for the benefit of capitalists and to come to Kobane to help rebuild the city. Mustafa stated that it is workers who build the world, so therefore workers should built it for their own needs and not for profits.