Theivanai is a natural leader. She has fought forced labour in Dindigul’s garment factories, helped 20 Dalit women escape this, fought caste discrimination in factories and villages and more. Nandita Shivakumar profiles this feisty union leader behanbox.com/2024/07/09/how…

At 27, Theivanai is one of the youngest #Dalit leaders of the women-led Tamil Nadu Textile & Common Labour Union (#TTCU), a Dalit-majority independent trade union representing over 12K women textile workers. Nandita Shivakumar profiles this firebrand leader behanbox.com/2024/07/09/how…

Stand with the women workers at Chelsea Mills in their fight for fundamental rights and respect in the workplace.

"At its core, it is a deeply flawed notion that workers' rights and well-being should be contingent on improvements in productivity & profitability." Nandita Shivakumar unpicks the worker rights issues with randomised controlled trials in factories ⬇️ business-humanrights.org/en/blog/labour…

Seema, a migrant from Odisha is a tailor in Erode, struggled with healthcare access despite paying her share of ESIS contribution. Her story shows why we need better access to #ESIS, a vital social security net report Nandita Shivakumar & Rajlakshmi R behanbox.com/2024/09/03/how…

ESIS is India’s comprehensive social security scheme providing health care, maternity benefits etc for formal workers earning below Rs 21,000/month. Yet in crucial moments, the it fails in providing for healthcare needs say Nandita Shivakumar & Rajlakshmi behanbox.com/2024/09/03/how…

🚨 How does the Employee State Insurance Scheme fail low-wage women workers? Cividep’s Nandita Sivakumar & Rajalakshmi explore the gaps in ESIS that leave many without essential healthcare. Read their article to learn more! #ESIS #WomensRights #SocialSecurity

Our dear comrade and Communist Party of India (Marxist) - CPI (M) - General Secretary has died. Born in 1952, comrade Sitaram was a student leader at Jawaharlal Nehru University, was arrested during the Emergency (1975-1977), led student struggles for people’s democracy, was a

The Karnataka IT/ITES Employees Union (KITU) demands the government to investigate the unregulated work culture in the industry and take strict measures against the companies who violate the law of the land.

While everyone is talking about work-place exploitation: For the past 11 days, hundreds of workers at Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest chip maker, are on an indefinite strike in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, demanding higher wages and CITU union recognition.

New Article Alert: Are digital grievance mechanisms truly providing workers with access to remedies, or are they subtly being used as tools for surveillance and retaliation against those who voice workplace concerns? sourcingjournal.com/topics/thought…

I am fixated on the man with crutches. His head is down. He struggles, the pain and humiliation unequal to any human. These are Palestinians, many of them medical workers. They are wearing very ordinary briefs and shoes, suggesting the very basic means available to these men.

The Dindigul Agreement set out to create a garment factory free from violence & harassment. 3 years on, women workers are building collective power & creating lasting change—on the factory floor & beyond Tamil Nadu Textile and Common Labour Union on the enforceable brand agreement: business-humanrights.org/en/blog/the-ri…

How do you begin to write a tribute to a journalist, a friend, a brother? How do you describe him when nothing really contains him? The first time I met Mukesh Chandrakar was in December 2015, weeks after I had landed in Chhattisgarh as the Indian Express reporter there. (1/18)

These folks just won the most votes amongst German youth

Most of India’s workers must work extremely long hours to earn a living. The reason: Indian industry derives its competitive advantage from cheap labour rather than innovation. Captains of the Indian industry have been shooting themselves in the foot. Hindu IIT Delhi Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS) - NUS

In Season 7 of Women Uninterrupted, Anna Thomas talk to women who contribute to the informal economy. trib.al/TLYvgib

Our new research shows that no major fashion brand has developed a decarbonisation strategy that meaningfully integrates workers’ rights. It is imperative brands set out a clear pathway for decarbonisation based on social dialogue and negotiation with suppliers and workers.

Yesterday we reported that no major fashion brand has developed a decarbonisation strategy integrating worker rights. Today Tamil Nadu Textile and Common Labour Union + HeatWatch provide crucial worker perspectives, outlining how factories are becoming hazardous as climate change pushes beyond safe limits.

“I cannot share anything with my family… I have kept everything bottled inside of me.” This is what a content moderator told Equidem.org during our latest investigation: 'Scroll. Click. Suffer: The Hidden Human Cost of Content Moderation and Data Labelling.' Workers exposed