Maruti Rolls up the Shutters: Who Won...? Who Lost...?
In what could be called a partial victory, emphasizing the power of workers’ unity, the 13 day-long strike of Maruti workers in IMT Manesar has come to an end today with the signing of an agreement with the management.
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Worker Struggles in Maruti: Result of Engineered Disquiet or of a Policy of Moulting?
Time and again, workers of the Maruti Zusuki Ltd (MSIL), a subsidiary of Suzuki Motor Corporation, Japan, which has been in the forefront of the resurgence of globalised automobile manufacturing in India, remind us that all is not well in this burgeoning industry.
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Homage to Dr. Pandhe
M.K. Pandhe, the veteran trade unionist, is no more. The president of Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) and a polit-bureau member of CPIM since 1998, has bid adieu to the working classes of India, today, 20 August 2011.
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Enough is Enough: Child Labourers Escape from Spinning Mill
The miraculous escape of 11 young children from the Gomathy Spinning Mills Pvt Ltd, located in Kunnathoor near Tirupur, is proof of the existence of child labour in the garment and textile industry in Tirupur, as well as the ill-treatment the working children and young women are subjected to.
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Small Tea Growers Meet Anand Sharma, Minister of Commerce : Demand Representation in Tea Board
Receiving a memorandum from a delegation of small tea growers, on behalf of Confederation of Indian Small Tea Growers Associations (CISTA), Mr.Anand Sharma, Minister of Commerce and Industry, assured to consider all their needs favourably at the earliest.
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Labour File on Incarceration of Binayak Sen
Labour File strongly condemns the sentencing of Dr. Binayak Sen, acclaimed human rights activist, to life imprisonment by the Chhattisgarh Trial Court, on charges of sedition on an allegation not convincingly proved. We hold that it violates the right to free speech guaranteed in the Constitution of
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Homage to Veteran Socialist Leader Surendra Mohan
The passing away of veteran socialist leader Surendra Mohan came as a painful shock to us here at Labour File. He has been one of our core supporters since we were established in 1995, occasionally penning articles for us and always inspiring us through his work.
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CSD Calls for Observing the Rights of Migrants
“Mexico is a country of migration, a land of mixed origin,” said Ms Margarita Zavala, Mexico’s First Lady, inaugurating the fourth edition of Civil Society Days (CSD) of Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) at the International Convention Centre, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico on 7 November 201
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GFMD: Celebrating Migration or a Proxy War?
“Preventing migration is against sovereignty; US could not have become the largest economy in the world without the labour of the Latin American workers in the United States,” declared C. Felipe Calderon Hinojosa,
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All India Strike by Trade Unions: Solidarity Message from Labour File
Reports from various parts of the country indicate that the nationwide bandh (strike) called by the nine central trade unions of India, (INTUC, AITUC, HMS, CITU, AIUTUC, TUCC, AICCTU, UTUC, and LPF) has been a success.
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