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.
Category: worker resistance
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New Zealand workers in historic win against McDonalds
After a decade long battle against casualisation and insecure work, the Unite union in New Zealand was able to win an agreement from the global fast food giant McDonalds to stop using ‘zero hours’ contracts. A ‘zero-hour’ contract allows employers to hire staff on a casual basis with no guarantee of work and with no regular work times. This precarious work arrangement is used all around the world to weaken workers power and to drive down workers wages and conditions. Unite’s victory symbolically came on May Day. The union now expects this agreement to flow on to other large fast food employers. -
South Korean workers take over streets in protests at new labour laws
As reported last week, the Korean labour movement launched a series of strikes, action and demonstrations against the current exploitative practices that companies are using against workers and new proposed labour laws that the government wants to introduce. The strikes and demonstrations have been massive, occurring throughout South Korea with tens of thousands of workers taking part from both the private and public sectors. Actions will continue next week, culminating in a major rally for May Day on Friday. -
Milwaukee teachers, students, parents march against cuts
Photo: Milwaukee Teachers Education Association Hundreds of members of the Milwaukee Teachers Education Association, students and community supporters protested in Milwaukee April 18 to end cuts to K-12 and higher education, protest toxic testing and charter schools, and demand adequate resources and services for teachers, staff, students and communities. The April 18 demonstration is part of a series of mass protests since January when Gov. Scott Walker unveiled his 2015-17 austerity budget. They are a continuation of the people’s occupation of the state Capitol in 2011. The effects of the 2013-2015 state budget, which included the largest cuts to public education in Wisconsin history, are now painfully felt in every city, town and village. The vast majority of the state’s poor and working people are demanding: Hands off public education! The 2015-17 proposed austerity budget, like the previous one, attacks every sector of the working class and oppressed, including environmental and prevailing wage laws, unemployment insurance, FoodShare benefits, senior care, project labor agreements and public education. Wall Street organizations such as Americans For Prosperity, American Legislative Exchange Council and the Heritage Foundation are fast attempting to eviscerate progressive Wisconsin laws won decades ago through mass struggle. On behalf of Wall […] -
The World Remember’s the Armenian Genocide
Armenia, Turkey and the rest of the world marched today in remembrance of the 100th anniversary of Armenian genocide. Besides Armenia, marches were held in Istanbul, New York, Paris, Beirut, Arbil, Tehran, London and many other cities worldwide. In Istanbul people gathered and carried the pictures of some of the victims, while in Arbil (Iraq) members
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UK Public Sector Workers Strike Over Cuts
As of Workers Independent News air-time, trade unions in the United Kingdom are expecting over a million public sector workers to walk off their jobs Thursday in a coordinated strike against “poverty pay”, as well as concerns about pensions and workplace safety. Britain’s Trade Union Congress estimates that most public sector workers’ incomes have lost more than 4000 dollars annually following years of wage freezes. The massive strike is expected to include workers from all corners of the public sector, ranging from teachers to firefighters to civil servants.
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Argentina: Multinational Weatherford Operators Protest Layoffs
Workers in Argentina are once again going up against a giant multinational company. Weatherford is an American oil services company based in Houston, Texas. The company operates in over 100 countries, with 730 locations as per their website. Weatherford has lucrative contracts with YPF and Petrobras. In Argentina there are 28 locations between exploration, drilling,
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