The New Trade Union Initiative strongly deplores the actions of the Gujarat Police who locked up eight workers of the National Bearing Company (NBC) at Savli, Vadodara and their leadership including Ashim Roy the President of the Chemical Mazdoor Panchayat and formerly the General Secretary of the NTUI on the night of Friday 18 September […]

‘As a large global company, we have responsibilities for all of our 177,000 employees — but also for the 1.6 million textile workers employed by our suppliers. We want everyone to be treated with respect and work in a safe and healthy environment’ from https://hmgroup.com/sustainability/fair-and-equal.html The Gokaldas Exports Limited (GE) factory ECC-2, manufacturing solely for […]

You are now using the Virus to Get Rid of Us When the Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the country on 24 March 2020 announcing the lockdown in order to contain the pandemic he said that everyone would have to make a 21 day sacrifice to fight the pandemic. Now into the fifth month of […]

7 July 2020: The struggle of 600+ women workers at the multinational global retail giant H&M (Hennes & Mauritz) supplier the ECC 2 unit of Gokaldas Exports Limited (GE) in Srirangapatna, Karnataka continues into its thirtieth day. Of the 1200 women, who were laid off by GE without any notice on 6 June 2020, many […]