Mumbai All of the large national union federations in India argue that they are independent, autonomous labor federations, but all of them are individually aligned to major political parties and formations whether on the right, left, or middle. No finger pointing is involved, because the same thing is true in the US, Canada, Mexico, and …
Category: Labor Organizing
Building a Union of Street Vendors in Bengaluru
Bengaluru I had a long list of things I needed to get done on this trip to India, catch up with Dharmendra Kumar in Delhi on our progress at blocking multi-brand retail in Delhi and stopping foreign direct investment, state by state, and evaluate our growing, alliance with hawkers, and my coming visit with Vinod …
Momentum Building against Wage Theft
http://www.kabf.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/wadesworldfeb28.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts New Orleans Increasingly I get the feeling that there is real momentum building against the standard operating procedure of company’s ripping off their workers on wages. The courts are not necessarily the workers’ friends on these issues though. For example a recent ruling against steelworkers …