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SELF EMPLOYED WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION (SEWA)
Organizing Women Home Based Beedi Rollers
SEWA Experience
SELF EMPLOYED WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION (SEWA)
About SEWA
Central Trade Union-1972
Organizes women in the informal sector for full employment and Self reliance
Total Membership base over 1.7 million women workers – 14 States of India
Struggle and Development
Organizing and Cooperatives
Organizing Approaches
Area Approach
Trade Approach
Campaign Approach
Need Based Approach
Integrated Approach
Formation of Cooperatives/economic
institutions/Specialized groups.
SELF EMPLOYED WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION (SEWA)
Organizing Methodology
Door –to –Door Contact Campaigns Area meetings Socio- economic study Awareness raising through various trainings-
Workers Education Class, Membership Education, leadership Dev. trainings and legal trainings
Development of Cadre of leaders Formation of trade committees –regular meetings Trade Council Creation of Cooperatives/ Specialized groups Welfare Boards Mass meetings
SELF EMPLOYED WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION (SEWA)
Organizing around Beedi trade …..
SELF EMPLOYED WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION (SEWA)
Beedi trade
Beedi trade is the home based trade. It is pre
dominant by the women
Beedi trade is the only trade in the informal sector
covered by the National law
There is a Beedi Welfare Board and the workers
can have access to the Beedi welfare schemes
SEWA is organizing Beedi workers since last 25
years SELF EMPLOYED WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION (SEWA)
Campaign Approach
The issues that cut across all the trade taken up as campaigns.
The campaigns are decided by the leaders in the trade committee every three years
Two types of campaigns are decided- short term and long terms.
The campaigns are decided trade wise and cutting across the category.
The campaigns are taken at Local, State and National level.
The strategies are then decided around the campaigns.
SELF EMPLOYED WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION (SEWA)
Beedi Campaigns
Membership Wage Increase Bonus Identity card Easy and sure Access of
Beedi welfare schemes Better functioning of the
Beedi welfare Board National Policy for the Home
based workers Ratifying ILO convention on
the Home based Similar Wages in all areas
SELF EMPLOYED WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION (SEWA)
Impacts
Increased and strengthened the membership Gujarat - 21,114 Ajmer - 3,711 Bihar - 4,000
In earlier days rolled Beedis were collected at midnight. The timings of Beedi collection were changed to morning.
The undue reduction of Beedis was stopped.
SELF EMPLOYED WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION (SEWA)
Impacts
175 Beedi workers got the provident fund of Rs. 15,00,000.
Wages were increased from Rs 2/- to Rs 92 in Ahmedabad and Rs 100/- in Ajmer gradually.
110 houses of Beedi workers were built by SEWA in participatory process with workers - Subsidy was given under the Bidi welfare Scheme .
SEWA is a member of Central Beedi Advisory committee.
SELF EMPLOYED WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION (SEWA)
Thank you
SELF EMPLOYED WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION (SEWA)