‘One day, one day, the women will go out to protest…’

‘One day, one day, the women will go out to protest…’

We are members of the Neralu Beedi Workers’ Union in Davanagere, Karnataka. Since 2014, our union has organised more than 1,400 women employed as informal workers in the beedi industry. Over the course of our journey, we have secured significant victories for our fellow workers—including long-overdue wage increases and an end to the manipulation and control over tobacco passbooks by contractors.With time, what began as a struggle against exploit…