Today, we need imaginative and innovative ways to turn the tide of assault on labour rights, around the world, and in India. The word "worker" itself has lost its dignity and appeal…

How do we secure just, fair and legal rights for workers when corporations slash away at labour rights, governments go along with the corporate vision, and the public is increasingly alienated from anything to do with labour?

Most workers are outside unions and have little bargaining power. Employers are skilled in using social divisions to divide workers from one another. Increasingly workers are migrants and lack basic citizenship rights.

A working class labour movement cannot only be concerned with workers and their wages. Workers often identify through not only class, but caste, race, gender, religion, region, and so on. Workers face immediate survival needs that go beyond issues of wages and benefits. We need to build coalitions with different types of organizations.

Building workers' organisations is no longer possible without also building public support, developing worker leadership, and developing democratic organisations. Workers' organizations can no longer be built only through gate meetings. We need new ways of organizing in a world hostile to labour - at local, national and international levels.

The Society for Labour & Development aims to be a place for coalition building, new forms of research with the aim of organizing, supporting grassroots worker organizing, and developing campaigns to change policy and raise awareness

If you think we make sense, contact us…we want to work with you! .