Building a Wider
Horizon With Labour
On July 13, 2016, the Tamilnadu High Court ordered garment factories in and around Chennai to uphold the minimum wage for garment workers, overturning stay orders that had kept the wage stagnant for years. This mandate did not appear out of nowhere, but was the culmination of years of struggle by labour union activists, including the Garment and Fashion Workers Union (GAWFU), an independent trade union affiliated to NTUI. Presently, despite the court ruling, fewer than 5% of the factories have actually implemented the minimum wage, and so the struggle continues.
