Anannya Bhattacharjee (center), helping the garment workers' children's theatre group celebrate after a successful performance. Photo by Garment and Allied Workers Union. All rights reserved.
This narrative is excerpted from an interview conducted by Beyond Trafficking and Slavery with Anannya Bhattacharjee in Bangalore, India, in August 2017.
My name is Anannya Bhattacharjee and I am a local labour organiser and trade unionist in the northwest part of India, which is a very difficult area of India. I mainly work in the National Capital Region, which is a confluence of five or six states, and I work in Haryana, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh. I am also the international coordinator of the Asia Floor Wage Alliance, which is an international alliance led by Asian trade unions to fight for living wages for Asian garment workers, who are primarily women, and who produce most of the world’s clothing.
