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Amma Unavagam workers who have cooked for 12 years still wait for the Rs 578 wage their own district fixed. A welfare state that feeds everyone except the women who do the feeding has confused charity with justice.
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The Bengaluru warehouse row is not a language misunderstanding. It is a test of self-respect at work: no wage should require a worker to surrender their mother tongue to keep a job.
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A Zomato warehouse supervisor in Bengaluru told Kannada-speaking workers to learn Hindi or leave in a viral video. After protests and a police petition, he apologised in Kannada, but activists demand removal.
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Chennai mid-level nurses suspended their hunger strike after talks with the Health Secretary, but warned of a statewide agitation from November 3 if pay, permanency and pending dues are not settled.
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Karnataka's ASHA workers are asking for Rs 15,000 a month and tools provided by the state for digital health records. An honorarium is not a wage, and gratitude is not pay.
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Karnataka ASHA workers protested in Karwar, Shivamogga and Hassan demanding Rs 15,000 monthly remuneration and relief from entering SAMASTA health data on their personal phones.
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Opinion: Vetri 150 promised 150 days of rural work and has delivered ten in 91 days. Periyar's test was self-respect, and a welfare promise, as the Dravidian tradition held, is a debt.
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Ninety-one days after the Vetri 150 promise of 150 days of rural work, Tamil Nadu workers average ten days, with worksites cut from 50 hands to 20 and wages unpaid for weeks.
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A rights group has documented at least 125 deaths in sewers, septic tanks and confined spaces across 20 states and Union Territories this year, calling them foreseeable failures of enforcement and mechanisation, not accidents.
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On Monday, Amma Unavagam workers protested in Virudhunagar: twelve to thirteen years on the job, still paid Rs 250-340 a day against the Collector's Rs 578 order from April, and the TVK's election promise of regularisation still unkept — while the CM renovates 620 canteens.
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Thousands of intermediate health workers ended their hunger strike near Chennai's Rajarathinam Stadium after five leaders, invited into the Tamil Nadu Secretariat for talks, were detained. The site suffered a power cut before overnight detentions.
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Contract sanitation workers of Tiruchengode municipality in Namakkal district boycotted work and staged a protest in front of the Anna statue, demanding job regularization and a wage hike — the latest flare-up in Tamil Nadu's long war over the exploitation of sanitation labour, fought mostly by women.
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CITU-affiliated Amma Unavagam workers staged a demonstration in Virudhunagar on Monday, demanding regularisation after 12-13 years on daily wages of Rs 250-340, with the collector-fixed Rs 578 wage unpaid six months after it was ordered.
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A Mumbai suburban collector has ordered 6.75 acres reserved for Mathadi workers' housing back to the state after a housing society cut a developer deal without permission. It is a rare reversal of the city's oldest habit: turning land meant for the poor into profit for the rich.
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They left the farm promised the factory, and found the food counter instead. A new study confirms what every migrant worker already knew: India's growth story has no room for its workers — only for their cheap labour.
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A new study of the RBI's KLEMS database finds that over 25 years, rural farm workers who left agriculture mostly landed in non-productive, informal urban jobs — restaurants, construction, transport — not factories.
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Karnataka's ASHA workers are protesting for a long-promised honorarium hike and against unpaid digital work via the SAMASTA health app. Slow servers, no phones and withheld pay have turned digitisation into a burden, workers say — the latest flare-up after the January 2025 strike.
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Santosh Ganpat Kashte, 47, died and another worker was critically injured after entering a Mumbai sewer chamber without safety equipment. The contractor has been arrested for culpable homicide and under the 2013 anti-manual-scavenging law.
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Five workers were killed when a gold mine collapsed in Afghanistan's Takhar province, officials said on Saturday. It is the latest in a grim procession of preventable deaths in the country's unregulated artisanal mines.
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The Sri City boiler blast killed five workers — and India's fixed ritual has begun: condolences, a price list, a committee, and the company's 'safety protocols'. Periyar taught that power always finds a theory of its own innocence; here it is called a 'lapse'.
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A boiler exploded at the TIL Healthcare pharmaceutical plant inside the Sri City SEZ in Andhra Pradesh's Tirupati district on Saturday, killing five workers and injuring over ten. Rs 50 lakh ex gratia per family has been announced; three of the dead were Tamil Nadu workers.
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Chennai's sanitation workers paused a 15-day strike on September 4 after four TVK ministers promised relief. The core demands — regularisation, weekly holidays, Collector-rate wages — were deferred to a review due on October 3. That day is here, and the structural promises are still paper. The...
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Mark Carney's Building Canada Strong Act would write sweeping new strike-breaking powers into the Canada Labour Code: once a legal strike begins, the labour minister could order workers back, extend contracts or impose arbitration — with 'national interest' left undefined. Unions call it the biggest rollback of workers' rights in generations.
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Two workers were killed when soil collapsed during farm-well construction in Tiruvannamalai district — the latest in a series of unsafe-site deaths across Tamil Nadu.
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