On 10th of February 2019, around 200 IT & ITES employees from Kerala, Karnataka, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Telangana and Tamil Nadu met at Madras Reporters Guild, Chepauk, Chennai with an important responsibility to form a National Level coordination between the multi state IT & ITES employees trade unions whose consolidated membership is around 10 thousand…
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IT & ITes employees welfare Union UNITE – Union of IT and ITes employees inauguration event.
Dear Friends, As a follow up of the VDSI illegal retrenchment of 993 employees from 12th December 2017, UNITE has submitted petition on 13th December 2017 to Chennai Labour Commissioner to investigate and to stop the mass retrenchment. Deputy Labour Commissioner on 15th December 2017 have arranged first tripartite meeting with VDSI representatives and UNITE…
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Recently a known multinational IT company verizon technologies fired hundreds of workers who are experienced and mid level employees. UNITE intervened in the issue.
Dear fellow IT employees, it is very evident the current situation in our industry is very uncertain. Hire and Fire policies and Forced Resignations are becoming order of the day. Though there are several reasons said like automation, restrictive policies by US and other western countries, and no new businesses and contracts, technology shift etc.,…
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Gopikrishna, a software engineer from Andhra Pradesh, who had started working in Pune three days ago, jumped to his death in the early hours of Wednesday (12th July 2017). A note, written and signed by him, left behind read, “In IT there is no job security. I’m worried a lot about my family” – Gopikrishna…
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