Bengaluru In the process of visiting several of our organizing sites with Bengaluru organizer, Suresh Kadashan, we spent about two-thirds of the time on the buses of the city and one-third of our time actually meeting with the vendors in various locations where they worked in either a market or the street or as traders …
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Building the Informal Workers Union in Bengaluru and the Health Camp
Bengaluru For several years in Bengaluru (Bangalore) our main focus has been organizing informal workers into unions, not because it’s easy, but because it’s necessary. Informal workers in construction, domestic work, street vending or hawking, and wastepicking in the state of Karnataka cannot obtain identification cards and therefore ration cards unless their employer or their union …
Big Business Contradictions: Big Bazaar, Vinci Construction & Airtel
Mumbai Luckily, there are a lot of folks out there who are smarter than the average bear and might be able to point out to street organizers like me and our team what is really going on in the weird calculations of many huge businesses. Seems like I’m running into more than my fair share …