Powerlooms going out of business because of low wages, say job working powerloom weavers
4 days ago

Powerlooms going out of business because of low wages, say job working powerloom weavers

The Hindu  

About 50,000 powerlooms have been destroyed and sold for scrap in Coimbatore and Tiruppur districts in the last three to four years because of unviable prices that the job workers get, S.E. Bhoopathi, president of the Federation of Coimbatore-Tiruppur district Job Working Powerloom Owners Association, said. Nearly 1.25 lakh powerloom workers have been on strike in the two districts since Wednesday, resulting in a loss of ₹30 crore worth of production of fabric. Job working powerloom weavers are demanding an increase in wages for the cloth woven by them for the master weavers.

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Powerlooms begin strike in Coimbatore and Tiruppur
5 days ago

Powerlooms begin strike in Coimbatore and Tiruppur

The Hindu  

The powerlooms in Coimbatore and Tiruppur districts began an indefinite strike on March 19 demanding a permanent settlement to the wage issue. In Tiruppur and Coimbatore districts alone, approximately around 2.5 lakh power looms are functioning and through them approximately 1.25 crore metre materials are manufactured. The powerloom job workers said that power tariff hike and spare part price rise …

Tiruppur Powerloom Weavers Declare Indefinite Strike From March 19 Over Wage Hike Demand
1 week, 4 days ago

Tiruppur Powerloom Weavers Declare Indefinite Strike From March 19 Over Wage Hike Demand

ABP News  

Powerloom weavers in Tiruppur have announced an indefinite strike from March 19, pressing for a wage increase to offset rising operational costs. The Tiruppur District Job-Working Powerloom Weavers Association, which represents around 1.5 lakh members, has been staging protests, urging textile manufacturers to revise wages in line with escalating expenses. Divided On Wage Revision Demand Historically, powerloom wages in the …

Textile manufacturers, traders, powerloom weavers in T.N. go on one-day strike against I-T Act amendment
1 year ago

Textile manufacturers, traders, powerloom weavers in T.N. go on one-day strike against I-T Act amendment

The Hindu  

Textile manufacturers, textile shops, traders and powerloom weavers in the districts of Erode, Salem and Namakkal shut their business for a day on Wednesday, February 28, 2924, opposing the recent amendment to Section 43B of the Income Tax Act that reportedly affects payment for goods supplied by Micro, Medium and Small Enterprises. As many as 20 textile-related associations, powerloom weavers …

Telangana’s Sircilla power loom weavers in a knot
1 year, 1 month ago

Telangana’s Sircilla power loom weavers in a knot

The Hindu  

“My only skill is weaving, and with the abrupt shutdown of power looms over the past fortnight, I am struggling financially,” says B. Srinivas, a 35-year-old power loom worker who lives in Indiramma Colony, abutting the Sircilla Textile Park in Telangana’s Rajanna Sircilla district. Industry sources believe that polyester cloth worth over ₹100 crore is lying unsold with the power …

Sircilla: Weavers urge TS government to bail them out of problems
1 year, 2 months ago

Sircilla: Weavers urge TS government to bail them out of problems

Deccan Chronicle  

Warangal: The weaver community is on a strike demanding that the power-loom units raise their wages, but the owners shut the units and halted production, leading to a major crisis in the textiles sector in the Rajanna Sircilla district. However, citing the election code, the BRS government did not clear about Rs 250 crore of bills for the purchase of …

Weavers call off strike in Textile Park
7 years, 10 months ago

Weavers call off strike in Textile Park

The Hindu  

The indefinite strike called by the powerloom weavers affiliated to CITU demanding increase in their wages entered second day in the textile town here on Tuesday. The weavers working in the Textile Park have, however, called off their strike following an assurance given by the owners to increase the wages as per agreement made earlier. The Textile Park powerloom owners …

Coimbatore powerloom owners to stop production on rising yarn prices
8 years ago

Coimbatore powerloom owners to stop production on rising yarn prices

Deccan Chronicle  

Coimbatore: Powerloom owners in this city and nearby Tirupur District will stop production from Wednesday protesting against fluctuating yarn prices, which they claimed alleged has seriously profit margins. "The increase in yarn prices for the last few months has seriously affected the profit margin of powerloom owners, who have a total of over two lakh powerlooms in both districts," Velusamy, …

Powerloom unit owners to begin strike today
9 years, 1 month ago

Powerloom unit owners to begin strike today

Deccan Chronicle  

Tirupur: The job working powerloom unit owners in Coimbatore and Tirupur districts will begin an indefinite strike on Thursday over weaving charge issue as planned, as the talks held by Tirupur district collector on Wednesday failed to convince them to give up the protest. The pact for weaving charge revision was signed between the job working power loom unit owners …

Kavuri announces slew of sops for Sircilla power loom weavers
11 years, 2 months ago

Kavuri announces slew of sops for Sircilla power loom weavers

The Hindu  

Union Minister of Textiles Kavuri Sambasiva Rao on Tuesday announced several sops to the distressed power loom weavers of Sircilla to ensure production of value-added fabric, good profit and employment throughout the year. Later, addressing the weavers at Padmanayaka Kalyana Mandapam, Mr. Rao called upon the weavers to upgrade their power looms with modern attachments to produce value-added fabric to …

Power cuts cripple small scale power loom units
12 years, 7 months ago

Power cuts cripple small scale power loom units

The Hindu  

Poor wages and a falling market seem to have prompted many traditional handloom weavers at Manamedu, Kodiyampalayam and Musiri to switch to power looms in the recent past. “Over the past one year, nearly 150 families have migrated to Nambiyampalayam in Tirupur district to work as wage labourers at the power loom industries there,” says K.V. “Beginning with just 10 …

Powerloom units resume production
14 years, 10 months ago

Powerloom units resume production

The Hindu  

The production in over 40,000 power looms in different parts of Erode district resumed on Monday as the owners of the units called off their strike. Powerloom owners in Veerappan Chatram and a few other parts in the district went on an indefinite on April 26 protesting against the raising cotton yarn prices and unannounced power cuts. The weaving sector, …

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