‘No salaries in last 18 months’: Workers who made parts for ISRO satellite launches stage protest

Employees of the government-owned Heavy Engineering Corporation say they have been struggling to make ends meet.

Zafar Aafaq

· Sep 23, 2023 · 09:00 am

Formulate welfare schemes for gig workers immediately, Parliament panel tells labour ministry

India’s unorganised sector employs nearly 90% of the country’s workforce, depriving them of social security benefits.

Scroll Staff

· Jul 25, 2023 · 11:44 am

US strip club employees unionise as labour movement grows

Star Garden Topless Dive Bar is the latest in a string of organising breakthroughs that includes corporations such as Starbucks, Amazon and Apple retail stores.

John Logan, The Conversation

· May 23, 2023 · 11:30 pm

The serfs of Hollywood: How ‘digital feudalism’ is driving the protest by screenwriters

Entertainment companies have taken a page from the gig economy playbook in ways that worked against writers’ livelihoods.

David Arditi, The Conversation

· May 08, 2023 · 11:30 pm

Behind Gujarat’s beautiful fabrics, the invisible lives of boiler workers

Mostly Adivasi migrant workers who keep the factory boilers burning are compelled to work long, brutal hours and live in squalid conditions.

Sneha

· Apr 29, 2023 · 06:30 am

In Britain, yoga teachers and nannies look to sex workers in their fight for rights

The hard-won victories of sex workers’ trade union has inspired overlooked workforces to fight for their labour rights.

Beatrice Tridimas, Thomson Reuters Foundation

· Apr 08, 2023 · 11:30 pm

Darjeeling’s tea garden workers are struggling to make ends meet

The workers are paid meagre wages, bound by a colonial labour system, without land rights and with little access to government schemes.

Niladry Sarkar, IndiaSpend.com

· Jan 27, 2023 · 01:30 pm

Three deaths every day: India’s labour safety laws have been diluted in the name of reforms

As many as 3,331 deaths were recorded between 2018 and 2020, but only 14 people were imprisoned for offences under the Factories Act, 1948 during this period.

Shreehari Paliath, IndiaSpend.com

· Jan 26, 2023 · 01:30 pm

Yes, India’s Constitution has been hijacked – but not by the Supreme Court

The wealthy and the rich have helped undermine the fundamental rights enshrined to all and have disenfranchised their fellow Indians.

Nandita Haksar

· Jan 26, 2023 · 09:00 am

A decade after Maruti Suzuki factory violence: How the media undermined the workers’ protest

The mainstream news gave precedence to the statements of the company management and turned a blind eye to the concerns about poor labour practices.

Faiz Ullah

· Jul 23, 2022 · 07:30 am

Ease of doing business has actually meant ease of violations – at the cost of workers’ lives

A model that views regulation and approvals as an impediment to economic growth has fostered inhuman and exploitative working conditions.

Maya John

· May 30, 2022 · 07:30 am

How gig work platforms exploit workers while claiming to promote entrepreneurship

All aspects of work, including pay, are strictly regulated and standardised, leaving little scope for upskilling.

Chiara Furtado

· May 27, 2022 · 09:00 am