Outlook/October 10, 2011
Easing The Load...
- ’Attimari’ is an extortionate
system of wages that headload workers’ unions in Kerala imposed for
loading/unloading goods
- If you use outside workers, the
union insists on compensation, ‘nokkukooli’, literally, wages for looking
on. Union might has kept this practice alive for decades.
- Labour minister S.B. John has
vowed to root out nokkukooli, starting with Trivandrum.
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