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India

Emergencies and Disasters

03 April 2015

PSI represents first responders and frontline workers. These are the people who put their lives at risk in order to protect and save your families. First responders include firefighters and emergency medical technicians, police and other uniformed services. They are also the frontline workers in hospitals and health clinics, in schools, in energy and water utilities; in public transport; in civil administration and in a range of other areas. All of us depend on these people being able to do their jobs, having the right tools and training.

PSI affiliates in India support global right to strike campaign

20 February 2015
Right to strike - India

PSI affiliates in India support PSI's global campaign on the right to strike for public employees and call upon the Indian Government to ratify ILO Conventions 87 and 98.

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Video: Stop water privatisation in Nagpur

15 December 2014

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India National Protest Day

Date: 
5 December, 2014

PSI affiliate, the Indian National Defence Workers Federation (INDWF) will be joining the National Protest Day on 5 December 2014. The INDWF and the Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC) are calling on their respective affiliates to organise mass demonstrations, protest meetings and rallies throughout the country.

Ebola Response

24 October 2014

Deaths to health workers accounted for six percent of all deaths confirmed as due to EVD, even to the end of the outbreaks. Over 500 health workers, including members of PSI affiliated unions, were killed in the line of duty. PSI is actively lobbying national governments, the ILO and WHO and working with health and allied care workers in our unions to rebuild health systems that can resist future outbreaks in the context of universal access to essential healthcare, which is the core of the post-2015 agenda for health.

India - Sewage treatment plant, Kavoor, Mangalore, India. Photo: ADB

India: Core labour standards not implemented in ADB funded projects

2 Sep 2013

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) Handbook on Core Labour Standards 2005, committed to comply with the internationally recognized core labour standards (CLS) and related labour laws in the design, formulation and operation of its loans to the developing countries. However the workers in the projects have identified union busting, harassment or physical violence against unions and discrimination and dismissals and other work-related anti-union/worker actions etc. in the projects and the compliance according to the CLS handbook is not strictly observed.

Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP)

09 April 2014

International trade agreements such as the TPP are currently being fast-tracked and negotiated in secrecy. These agreements undermine local and national government decision-making power and increase corporate access to public services resulting in the privatization of critical public services. PSI is working with global union federations, affiliated unions, and civil society allies who oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) being negotiated in the Asia Pacific Region.

Trade in Services Agreement (TISA)

02 April 2014

PSI is currently undertaking further research on the effects of the TISA on our sectors. PSI will be working with civil society and other allies to oppose the harmful effects of the TISA.

Social protection floors

30 March 2014

Today, as much as 80 per cent of the global population does not have access to social protection and lives in social insecurity, facing complete loss of income when a personal or national economic crisis strikes. Social Protection was pushed to the fore of the international agenda after the obvious damage due to the financial and economic crises, and a 2012 ILO Recommendation operationalizes Social Protection Floors as two-pronged, providing universal access to essential health care and basic income security in the case of maternity, for children and when people are sick, unemployed, disabled, and old. Read more>>>

POSTPONED: PSI Sub-regional Advisory Committee for South Asia (SASRAC)

Date: 
8 March, 2014 to 10 March, 2014

Due to unforeseen circumstances and technical difficulties, we regret that the meeting will be postponed to a future date.

There will be further discussions on this during the APREC meeting in April 2014  and the new dates will be decided then.