India’s traditional labour laws don’t cover the growing fleet of gig workers, working under exploitative conditions. The labour unions are doing their bit but issues remain unaddressed.
At Amazon, the warehouses are cavernous, and workers are often more isolated and more closely supervised, especially during an organizing campaign.
Unlike traditional unions, the Amazon Labor Union relied almost entirely on current and former workers rather than professional organizers in its campaign at a warehouse on Staten Island in New York City.
The Amazon Labor Union qualified for the Staten Island election only on its second try, after failing to sign up the 30% of employees it needed in its initial petition to the NLRB. Organizers typically seek to sign up a majority of eligible workers before filing for an election because attrition is common once a union campaign begins.
Tata Motors has separate long-term wage agreements -- typically lasting three to four years -- with recognised unions at each of its plants.
However, he said that the final view on the interest rates by labour unions will be taken only after the CBT is provided the details of the earning by the fund during the current financial year.
Nearly 50,000 workers at Hyundai Motor's three plants across the country -- including the main one in the southern city of Ulsan -- walked off the job throughout Monday, said a spokesman for its labour union.
The Tamil Nadu government yesterday clarified that employees of IT companies were free to form worker unions under the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947.
The state of Tamil Nadu has allowed employees of IT companies to form trade unions, by bringing the sector under the ambit of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947.
Bajaj Auto chief Rajiv Bajaj said that the management was ready to discuss other issues that the union had raised. But, it rejected the demand for allotment of Employee Stock Options (Esop).
The strike at Maruti's Manesar plant continues even after an agreement was signed with the workers and the Haryana Government in confidence. CNBC-TV18 brings Kanwaldeep Singh of Maruti on show to talk about where things stand right now.
From the Honda unrest in 2005 to the Maruti strike in 2011, industrial relations in Haryana have gone from bad to worse.