Kachra Vahatuk Shramik Sangh
Kachra Vahatuk Shramik Sangh (KVSS) has been involved in litigating the case for permanency for 3280 contract workers of the Bombay Municipal Corporation. Following intense struggle the Municipal authority has agreed to ensure that workers are not fired if the contractors employing them are changed. The Nasik Mahanagar Palika Shramik Sangh has on the other hand forced the Labour Commissioner to give a written order to the Municipal authority to pay equal wages for equal work to the contract workers. The same was the case in Navi Mumbai where following the long struggle of the Konkan Shramik Sangh, contract workers are being paid a wage equal to permanent Class IV staff. In addition to this, for the first time Kachra Vahatuk Shramik Sangh has forced the Bombay Municipal Corporation to spend 46% more for the benefit of workers which included provision of safety equipments, uniforms in addition to payment of PF, ESI, annual paid leave, weekly off and for the unprecedented 8.33% bonus that the union achieved to get for its membership. The union has also moved fast in organising the contract safai workers of the Nagpur Municipal Corporation around the issue of minimum wages. An indefinite strike was started on 1 December 2008 with a sit-in demonstration in front of the Municipal Commissioners office. More than 1500 workers joined this demonstration. The Commissioner was finally forced to give a written order that all contract workers would be paid minimum wages and the payment would be made through bank.