Cividep India and GIZ partner co-hosted a multi-stakeholder roundtable recently that highlighted worker Participation as Key to Improving Labour Rights in Tamil Nadu’s Electronics Sector. The speakers said effective stakeholder engagement, especially that of workers, will help tackle critical human rights risks facing electronics industry workers in Tamil Nadu
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Scores of electronics factory workers from Kanchipuram celebrated Independence Day, fostering community spirit through music, dance, & unity. Cividep India’s Youth Sangamam event helped them take a break from routine factory work, and escape social isolation for a few hours.
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This issue of Field Diary delves into inspiring stories of worker empowerment and solidarity across industries. A Cividep -India Labourline team rescued expolited migrant workers at a mill in Tamil Nadu. Meanwhile Worker Education Enabled Electronics Workers in Tamil Nadu In Accessing their Right To Health Protection , While Leather Homeworkers Stood Together To Demand Fair Pay. Also Read Learnings From A Cividep Team Conducting In-Factory Research on Occupational Health of Its Garment Workers.
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This issue of Field Diary delves into inspiring stories of worker solidarity across industries. While a homeworkers’ collective in Tamil Nadu’s leather industry is challenging unfair wages, garment factory workers in Bengaluru address issues in accessing social security claims. We also see electronics factory workers responding to exploitation by dubious contractors.
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A roundup of Cividep 2023 field diary stories that provide a glance into worker lives with bite-sized stories from the factory, household, worker communities, and more.
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This issue of Field Diary explores how workers continue facing mounting challenges across industries. In the garment sector, many workers are increasingly shifting to piece rate work due to flexible schedules and better earnings. Electronics workers in Sriperumbudur grapple with layoffs and lack of permanent employment. Meanwhile, Cividep’s partner organisations continue to encourage the spirit of worker solidarity through new ways such as building more compact alliances of workers through SHGs.
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This issue of Field Diary explores how workers continue facing mounting challenges across industries. The garment sector grapples with stagnant wages and potential extended work hours due to new legislation. Electronics workers in Sriperumbudur anticipate festive bonuses, often denied or substituted with household items. Layoffs in electronics and shoe factories highlight the instability of contract work and the gradual erosion of job security. Many workers, despite years of service, find themselves without due compensation or face issues accessing their Provident Fund. Cividep India has been stepping in, addressing health concerns and offering training sessions to empower workers in navigating these challenges.
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This edition of Field Diary is all about the Cividep team and partners reaching out to women workers – using technology on the field, going to far-flung villages to meet workers, and offering counselling support to deal with work-related and personal troubles.
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This latest edition of the Cividep Field Diary is all about women lifting each other up – from mobilizing fellow workers for awareness meetings in the community, discussing the interconnectedness of health, gender, and work; the barriers to sustaining careers in the factory, and much more.
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A glance into worker lives with bite-sized stories from the factory, household, worker communities, and more.
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On May Day, workers talk about the historic struggle that brought in 8-hour work days across the world. They worry about a possible shift to 12-hour work days that could throw their lives out of balance
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A glance into worker lives with bite-sized stories from the factory, household, worker communities, and more.
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