Over 4000 anganwadi (the government sponsored child-care and mother-care center) workers, all are women, protested outside zilla parishad office demanding wage revision. The protest was part of the one-day nationwide strike of anganwadi workers who have been fighting for fulfilment of their demands for over two years now. “The policies of the state government are against the [...]
National welfare peak body, ACOSS has launched a new campaign in support of the landmark equal wage case to lift the pay rates and conditions of 200,000 community sector workers. ACOSS is encouraging its members, and other community organisations, to support the campaign by signing onto a joint statement of support. The statement calls for [...]
CHENNAI: The convention of the State Women Fish Workers Federation will take place on July 2. The district-level committees of Chennai and Tiruvallur, formed at a meeting of 140 women fish workers in the city on Saturday, would support the State-level meet. Among the resolutions adopted in the day’s meeting was that the State government [...]
It is our great pleasure to congratulate Kamojibi Nari (KN) on the celebration of the 19th founding anniversary on 30th April. The celebration is planned to coincide with the May One celebration. On these occasions, KN is planning several programs such as: Women and Women Workers gathering at Mukangan, Cultural Program and Rally, Post Card [...]
Joint Declaration on Celebrating May Day 2010 as “Asian Domestic Workers’ Day” 1 May 2010 “We are not begging for special treatment. We, domestic workers, are claiming our basic rights. We are demanding equal treatment and proper recognition as workers and members of society. We will continue to fight abuses and exploitation. We want freedom [...]
Asian Women Workers demand for Decent Wage and Decent Work May Day, referred also as International Workers’ Day or Labour Day commemorates the fight for an eight-hour work day initiated by workers in 1886 in what was called the Haymarket affair-a rally supporting striking workers in Chicago USA was violently dispersed resulting in many deaths, [...]
The brand “No Chains” will be launched on 4th June, simultaneously, in Buenos Aires and Bangkok. The items produced by cooperatives The Alameda and Dignity Returns (Solidarity Coorperative Factory) will be sold throughout the world to promote decent work. In Bangkok and Buenos Aires two parallel stories took place. In the Thai capital, workers in [...]
Marking the 100 th Anniversary of international Women Workers Day,Fourth national Conference of Women Workers under the GEFONT umbrella has been organised with the main theme of“Equal Right,Decent Work & Prosperous Life for Women Workers. The Conference was inaugurated by Chief Guest Rt.Hon’ble Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal By launching the Logo of Conference. [...]
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 9, 2010 (IPS) – “What do I get from them? Nothing but bullsh*t,” says Nupur Acharya, reflecting about how she is treated by her husband and two grown sons on daily basis. The 50-year-old Indian national who is currently settled in New York says she not only cleans the entire house every [...]
