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400 people work here.

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People have been outside the factory now for 62 days.

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Tanks are built in this factory. 

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Boilers, heat exchangers, compabloc. These types of things are made here.

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We export too. Tata Chemical, Bicon, Rasim, Reliance.

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We've put this picture of Gandhi up here because he's a symbol of our ideals.

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400 people have started the struggle with a peaceful sit-in. 

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People work here on a contract and permanent basis.

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These contract workers, some of whom have worked here for 20, 25 years, 

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haven't been thought about by the company at all. 

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They aren't given access to any facilities.

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And the difference in the wages...

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There's a big difference in the wages that the company pays.

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The contractors take out all their profits and commissions before paying the workers.

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The gap between their profits are and what the workers get is a big one.

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Wages and contracts are worked out through a system of categorisation.

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They provide us with grades: A, B, C grade, skilled, expert, senior expert.

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The highest category is senior expert.

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Senior experts get 12,000 rupees (£117 or 142 Euro).

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The experts get about 8000-9000 rupees, high skilled workers get about 7500-8000.

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The rest (A,B,C grade and helpers) get 5000-6000 rupees.

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If I was permanent I'd be making about 28,000- 30,000 rupees.

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Initially 800 contract workers worked for the company.

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The company started letting them go in dribs and drabs until 400 people were gone.

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The 400 people left thought that they could carry on and get rid of another 200 people,

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we're all vulnerable. We won't know if we'll have a job or not. So we made a union.

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Because we realised that anything could happen to us in the future. 

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So now we're ready, for opposition.

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We want permanent status.

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There are no facilities for us.

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The facilities the company provides for the permanent workers aren't available for us.

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Bonuses, we don't get those either.

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Canteen, bus, medical...

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230 workers are permanent,

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60 people on staff, they're also permanent.

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Contract workers do at least 80% of the production work for the company.

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So these permanent workers, they worked together with you, on a daily basis.

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The same work. But these workers don't speak to your now? -No

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They just leave the factory and don't say anything to you. -They don't say anything to us.

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So this is a really difficult situation. Why is it like that? For what reason?

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They just think about themselves! They don't think about us.

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What are you all doing to further the struggle?

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Lots of people have supported us.

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At least 200 people - their big leaders have come to support us.

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Workers of tomorrow won't be able to change anything.

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The situation as it stands now: we have a case going through the labour courts,

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the talks with the company are ongoing...

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The biggest difficulty is the fact that we're not getting any wages, nothing.

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It's been two months now.

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And the company hasn't given us any reply. That's the biggest difficulty.

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The best thing is that we're all united.

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Like friends. We can share our troubles.

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With this type of contract system, the poor remain poor.

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And the rich get richer.

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So our demand is that, for all the workers, who've given so many years to this company,

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who've sweated for the company,

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that the company should now give some thought to us, they should make us permanent,

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so that our wives and children can remain happy.