Building a Wider
Horizon With Labour
The Ashanghatit Khetra Shramik Sangrami Manch (AKSSM) has strongly condemned recent attack on workers of brick-fields in Hasnabad of Basirhat Sub-Division in District 24 Parganas (N) and subsequent police inaction. “On Monday morning, a peaceful rally of the workers was attacked by the hired goons of the owners of many brick-fields with firearms and country made bombs, leading to injuries to several of the agitating workers. Across the state, brick-field owners are systematically violating all existing labour laws, including that of minimum wage. Workers are being forced to live in sub-human conditions. To protest against this, workers of eleven brick-fields under the banner of Shramajibi Samanwaya Committee (SSC), a federation of workers in different micro and small scale industries of Basirhat sub-division, and an active member of AKSSM, unitedly intensified their movement recently to achieve their demand of minimum wage, as per the law of the land,’ said convener Swapan Ganguly.
