NTUI position papers from 2009 Note on India’s WTO endorsement Raipur Satyagraha for release of Binayak Sen Statement on Contract Work Joint Indo-Pak Statement on Terrorism Joint letter of Trade Unions to Commerce Minister Memorandum to Labour Minister on social security NTUI charter for the Elections to the 15th Lok Sabha PDS as Workers’ Right […]
NTUI positions
Submissions to the 42nd Session of the Indian Labour Conference (20-21 February 2009)
Item No. 1 (a) Issues Connected with the Contractualisation of Labour Retrenchment of workers and reducing the contractual obligation has been the major impact of globalisation, but we view it more as a part of, and a phase in, the re-composition of the workforce in the production at the global level. The main […]
Contract Work: NTUI statement
If there were an area of employment relationships that is most perverse from the perspective of the emergent idea of human right in the workplace, in most probability the contract workers in the organised sector would fit the bill. The underlying political notion of universality of equality, engraved into the Indian constitution, has been progressively […]
Assembly of Working People 2008: Women’s work, Unpaid labour and Regulation of Work
In discussing ‘women’s work’, we need to look at all forms of paid and unpaid work done by women, the nature of these forms and the reasons for low status, skill levels and wage inequalities. Secondly, we need to go into the explanations of why we have a notion called ‘women’s work’, why is unpaid […]