are even assaulted by the
managers as has been an instance
at Textport apparels LLP, 4 th stage,
Bangalore. They are not provided
with housing arrangements near to
their work-place, so they have to
spend a lot of time every day to go
and return from their work-places.
Besides they have to pay
considerable amounts for their to
and fro transportation to their work-
places from their paltry wages due
to lack of sufficient public
transportation. On the other hand
they are forcibly made to work over
time, but with a single pay for
overtime work. They are denied
holidays. Their work-load is
increased constantly. Though their
work-load mounts their wages are
never raised. While initially the
workers has to stitch 25 to 35
pieces in one hour, now even 70
pieces are not enough and the
workers are subjected to verbal
abuse and harassment if the
worker do not reach the target
fixed.
Women workers in their late
teens and early twenties are being
brought to the garment factories
from northern and eastern states
like Jharkand, Odisha, Assam and
M.P under government sponsored
schemes like Pradhana Mantri
Kaushal Vikas Yojana or Skill India.
W ith these migrant women
from north and east of the country,
the employees taking the
advantage of their vulnerability are
keeping wages very low, even to
the local women-workers and the
garment industry is plagued with
low and delayed wages, as well as
physical and mental harassment at
work.
This ruthless exploitation of
women workers is not ending with
the above methods of severe and
inhuman exploitation only.
Recently the Thompson
Reuters Foundation in its survey
of Tamilnadu garment factories has
found one more heinous method
adopted by the employers on
June,July - 2019
workers. It is found these garment
factory
woman-workers
in
Tamilnadu are forced to consume
unlabelled drugs to enable them to
work through menstrual pains
without taking leaves, which is
resulting in health complications of
workers. This is how the garment
industry has become rogue
industry in exploiting the women
work-force.
While such has been the plight
of women-workers in textile-
garment industry, some abhorrent
feudal practices practiced in
agricultural sector in Maharashtra
that came in to light are much more
dis-heartening and distressing.
It is natural that women
workers during the period of their
menstruation, for two or three days,
cannot work hard like on the other
days. This may cause less of
income to the land owners. So the
Maharashtra land owners are not
taking women who tend to
menstruation and are taking the
women-workers who under-went
uterus removal surgery only,
(Hysterectomy?). With this we wont
find women agricultural labourers
cannot become pregnant. In the
village of Hazpur and nearby
villages you cannot find a young
girl is a youth within 25 years who
can be pregnant. The stunning fact
is that some land owners
themselves are even advancing
loans to young girls to undergo
uterus (?) surgeries, to enable
them to work on their lands!
A shameful fact is that now the
women who do not menstruate
(due to surgery) and who satisfy
the sexual needs of land-owners
only are taken in to agricultural
work on lands, which initially
started in Beed district of
Maharashtra has spread through-
out Maharashtra state.
Now the danger of this evil
practice is looming to spread to all
the states in India.
This how the so-called
bringing out of empowerment of
women workers is being practiced
in our country under the aegis of
neo-liberal economic policies of
imperialist globalisation.
RED SALUTE TO ARUNODAYA RAMA RAO
Com.Rama Rao, popularly known as “ Arunodaya Rama Rao,”
has departed on May 5 th , 2019 in Hyderabad owing to massive Heart
attack. He is from Mulagapalli village of Kurnool district, AP. He was
of 65 years.
Com.Rama Rao was attracted towards Communist ideas and
people’s art and culture at a younger age. Guided and trained by an
experienced IPTA comrade and coupled with his own efforts, he
moulded himself into a versatile singer, composer, drum – player
and a cultural worker. He tirelessly worked for decades as a cultural
activist, party organizer and leader. He was the State President of
Arunodaya Cultural Organization, AP as well as an APSC Member of
CPI (ML) ND. Through his powerful voice and countless songs he
became a source of inspiration for revolutionary and cultural work
and the masses of people. He was good enough in combining
numerous popular forms with the content of people’s problems and
revolutionary themes. His demise is a serious loss to the revolutionary
and peoples’cultural movement.
We pay Red Salute to the departed comrade. We express our grief
and deep condolences to Com. Aruna, his life partner, as well as his
other family members.
CENTRAL COMMITTEE
CPI (ML)
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