Sunday 29 December 2019
A deadly holiday season for workers in Delhi
On December 8, 2019 a fire killed 43 workers and injured more than 50 in a factory in Delhi, India. No, it was not Rana Plaza again, the Bangladesh disaster of 2013 that killed over a thousand and injured 2500+. This time the workers were producing bags for locals, not consumer clothing for westerners, but they have in common company contempt for the health and wellbeing of poor workers. Industrial Workers of the World and the Maquila Solidarity Network,
this picture from theguardian.com
Businesses flouting regulations is part of the problem but inadequate regulations and policing of them are also specifics that the two incidents also have in common. Notwithstanding the various codes of conduct that have been drafted since rana Plaza in 2013, underlying inequality and the desperation of workers dependent on urban factory jobs to survive, remain. Delhi is a long way from Canada but as long as workers can be dangerously exploited in any country their relative worth and status is lessened everywhere. To help workers in Toronto we must do what we can to help workers wherever they are being harmed. Local internationalist union organizations like the Industrial Workers of the World and the Maquila Solidarity Network, an NGO whose activism for workers has been long supported by TorontotheBetter will help you to engage in the struggle for better conditions for workers everywhere.
Businesses flouting regulations is part of the problem but inadequate regulations and policing of them are also specifics that the two incidents also have in common. Notwithstanding the various codes of conduct that have been drafted since rana Plaza in 2013, underlying inequality and the desperation of workers dependent on urban factory jobs to survive, remain. Delhi is a long way from Canada but as long as workers can be dangerously exploited in any country their relative worth and status is lessened everywhere. To help workers in Toronto we must do what we can to help workers wherever they are being harmed. Local internationalist union organizations like the Industrial Workers of the World and the Maquila Solidarity Network, an NGO whose activism for workers has been long supported by TorontotheBetter will help you to engage in the struggle for better conditions for workers everywhere.
# posted by Taodhg @ 8:38 pm 
