Garment employees and members of the GATWU on the conference of garment employees in Bengaluru on Sunday.
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Demanding to finish wage discrimination of garment employees, the Garment and Textile Staff Union (GATWU) has requested the State authorities to supply dignified working circumstances and repeal the brand new labour codes, throughout a conference of garment employees within the metropolis on Sunday.
Prathibha, president, GATWU, identified that whereas employees in different scheduled industries obtain a minimal wage of round ₹18,000 per thirty days, garment employees are nonetheless caught at ₹12,800. “The current minimal wage notification issued in April 2025 shockingly excluded industries like clothes the place girls are concentrated, proposing minimal wages of ₹25,000 for different industries,” she mentioned. She questioned how such discrimination might be made and demanded an finish to it.
Nirmala, State vice-president of AICCTU, declared the conference a warning to the federal government. “If the discrimination in opposition to garment employees continues—if they’re neglected of wage revisions and compelled into unsafe, exploitative working circumstances—garment employees will take to the streets and take their rights”.
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