Gujarat: At SEWA event, a call to declare November 2 as Day for Informal Workers

On the juncture of the 2nd decease day of SEWA’s laminitis Ela Bhatt, Sue Longley, General Secretary of the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco, and Allied Workers’ Associations (IUF), declared November 2 arsenic the “International Day for Informal Workers.”

Jyoti Macwan, General Secretary of SEWA (Self Employed Women’s Association), said, “It is captious that the planetary assemblage recognises November 2 arsenic a time dedicated to informal workers. We are committed to ensuring this time is celebrated widely, with the enactment of commercialized unions, UN agencies, and planetary organisations. It volition beryllium a agelong process, but astatine SEWA, we clasp it arsenic a ‘Constructive Struggle’.”