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  • Why gig workers in India can’t unionise, despite poor working conditions?

    Why gig workers in India can’t unionise, despite poor working conditions?

    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.

  • A Union blitzed Starbucks. At Amazon, it’s a slog.

    A Union blitzed Starbucks. At Amazon, it’s a slog.

    At Amazon, the warehouses are cavernous, and workers are often more isolated and more closely supervised, especially during an organizing campaign.

  • Amazon workers who won a union their way open labor leaders’ eyes

    Amazon workers who won a union their way open labor leaders’ eyes

    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.

  • Mandatory Meetings Reveal Amazon’s Approach to Resisting Unions

    Mandatory Meetings Reveal Amazon’s Approach to Resisting Unions

    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 in wage talks with Lucknow plant union, current pact ends this month

    Tata Motors in wage talks with Lucknow plant union, current pact ends this month

    Tata Motors has separate long-term wage agreements -- typically lasting three to four years -- with recognised unions at each of its plants.

  • Unions may seek higher interest rate on EPF balances for 2016-17

    Unions may seek higher interest rate on EPF balances for 2016-17

    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.

  • Hyundai car workers start first full strike in 12 years

    Hyundai car workers start first full strike in 12 years

    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.

  • Tamil Nadu IT employees were always free to form unions: NASSCOM

    Tamil Nadu IT employees were always free to form unions: NASSCOM

    The Tamil Nadu government yesterday clarified that employees of IT companies were free to form worker unions under the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947.

  • Mohandas Pai: Why TN allowing unions for IT cos is bad news

    Mohandas Pai: Why TN allowing unions for IT cos is bad news

    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 turns down Esop demand, ready to discuss other issues

    Bajaj turns down Esop demand, ready to discuss other issues

    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).

  • Workers' agitation post agreement not acceptable: Maruti

    Workers' agitation post agreement not acceptable: Maruti

    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.

  • Haryana: The state of discontent

    Haryana: The state of discontent

    From the Honda unrest in 2005 to the Maruti strike in 2011, industrial relations in Haryana have gone from bad to worse.

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