21 August, New Delhi. Bigul Mazdoor Dasta alomg with various mass organisations, unions and social activists staged a protest demonstration at Jantar Mantar today against the arbitrary expulsion of hundreds of workers Maruti Suzuki  by the management and the continued persecution of the workers. The protestors also submitted a memorandum to the union labour minister to revoke the suspension of the workers.

It is to be noted that tha Manesar plant of Maruti Suzuki…

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In temperatures that barely rose above -10 C, except when the wind dropped, up to 15,000 supporters, students, residents and workers, unionized and non-unionized, public and private sector, employed and unemployed, gathered to show their support for the 421 workers of Canadian Auto Workers Union (CAW) Local 27.

More than 3,000,000 workers were there 'in spirit', Ken Georgetti, President of the Canadian Labour Congress, told the protestors.

For the first time in a long while,…

by Bigul Mazdoor Dasta

Not a week has passed since the 33 day long lockout in the Manesar plant of India’s largest car maker Maruti Suzuki, that the workers are once again on path of struggle. Since the afternoon of October 7, around 2000 permanent, contractual and trainee workers have struck work and started a sit-in inside the factory premises. Outside the factory gates hundreds of contractual workers too are sitting on…

More than 3000 of your co-workers are on strike for their right to organise and form a union in the Maruti Suzuki car plant at Manesar in India

Workers have to fight unitedly against heightened attacks on labour rights all over the world in the name of recession and austerity measures

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Hundreds of Delhi Metro workers gathered  on 10th July at  Jantar-Mantar to protest against the  gross violation of labor laws by the DMRC officials as well as the contract companies of the DMRC. It is  worthy to note here that the contract workers of DMRC, including the ticket-vending operators , housekeepers  and security guards, have been demanding for the payment of minimum wages, the facilities of ESI, PF, double  rate payment for overtime, weekly-off and other facilities…

Musclemen and Group Four security guards beat activists, snatch pamphlets, try to kidnap activists 

New Delhi, 15 June. Activists of Bigul Mazdoor Dasta who were addressing public meetings in support of the workers agitation in Maruti Suzuki were attacked in Gurgaon and Manesar last evening and this morning by private security guards of Maruti Suzuki and musclemen allegedly hired by…

Brutal repression of workers in Gorakhpur, para-military forces and police assault and arrest workers going for peaceful ‘Mazdoor Satyagrah’

No trace of women workers, a labour leader and a girl student taken into custody…

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