Mahendra Parida

Gearing Up Working Class against Corporate Loot and Rampant Contractualisation

After a prolonged struggle for 28 days under the leadership of AICCTU, railway contract sanitation workers of Mancheswar, Odisha, achieved a significant victory. At the end of January 2022, all of a sudden, sixty-five contract sanitation workers - men and women - of the Mancheswar Rail Carriage Repairing Workshop of East Coast Railway (ECoR) were thrown out of their jobs and pushed to starvation and misery by the railway administration. They were terminated by changing the nature of the contract. These workers had been employed in the workshop for more than 10 years.