Bengaluru Visiting the Yesvantpur markets at dawn on a Sunday morning gave our whole ACORN team a better way of understanding the issues some of members were facing and what our union needed to do to address some of them in the future. As soon as we saw our members in vegetable market spreading out …
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Hawkers’ Work
Bengaluru There are probably 200 markets in Bengaluru, a city of 8 million, known in the West allegedly as a tech-center, the Silicon Valley of India or in the famous novel, White Tiger, as a place where any Indian can be lost forever and reinvent themselves anonymously and invisibly. We don’t know anything about any …
Pro-Development Modi Government Attacking Unions and Workers
Bengaluru Suresh Kadashan, ACORN’s head organizer for South India based in Bengaluru, and I started our day as usual at the India Coffeehouse, run by the national Coffee Board. Even before we left for the series of buses, the G8 and the K2, that would take us to meet with some of our street vendor …