Indian construction workers are amazingly brave but bloody hell I reckon they might need a union to demand a bit more site safety. This is 9 stories up with another 9 to go … pic.twitter.com/tkh5QudH0m

— Peter Lalor (@plalor) March 14, 2023

In India, workers in the informal sector have zero representation, & barely any legal protection. These are mostly very poor migrant laborers, with no local enfranchisement. The only skill they can offer is their own readiness to risk their lives. Contractors know this & exploit.

— Arnab (@simplyarnab) March 14, 2023

It’s actually to do with the fact that the harness hampers them to work. Most of these workers are cheap labours who are paid in cash and aren’t insured. No union will protect them. Sad reality

— @run (@mufc_mitron) March 14, 2023

Unfortunately in most of the construction sites, safety measures are negligible in India. Wages are low and there's no such insurance policy for the labourers. We need to bring effective and strict labour laws. They put their lives on risks for us without much pay & security.

— 🎯DEVENDRA🎯 (@DS_790) March 14, 2023

Far from bravery. Sheer exploration by contractors who make billions.

— Abhishek R (@aramanujaa) March 14, 2023

India has had few issues wrt to workers safety. The labor officers aren't strict enough, thanks to sick framework maintained by officials. Hardly any of these workers know their rights. An incident happened few years back in my locality, it was spine chilling but no action taken.

— Rohan (@ImRohanSingh19) March 14, 2023

The government should issue orders and get these things sorted. Hard hats are getting more common now as well. But unions, idk. Unions just end up exploiting its own members. They use their influence to milk the misary of the weaker section while keeping them weak.

— Abhinav 🇮🇳 (@Fatboy_was_slim) March 14, 2023

In India the cheapest is life of a human

— Rich (@isay_nobita) March 14, 2023

When labour is so cheap that Indian labourers venture into richer Middle Eastern nations for better pay, safety and labour union can all go for a toss.
In a nation infected by higher unemployment/ population, having bread for their family at the end of the day is a big thing.

— Faolan Bern (@CFC_hangul) March 14, 2023

The workers are so acquainted with such work environment that most of the times they refuse to use safety equipment/harness saying it's uncomfortable.
In our building, even after providing everything they don't use any of it 😐

— 🇮🇳 𝓫𝓸𝓾𝓻𝓫𝓸𝓷 🇮🇳 (@bubun_s) March 14, 2023

When the work is few and workers are in million , people can go any extent to secure their job

— AR Sports official (@Arjunmahato7679) March 14, 2023

There is a labour code but it is not implemented properly & after corona the norms in labour code are relaxed to speed up the infra work.This is the story of 90% india of consty work

— cricholic (@cricholic2) March 14, 2023

Yes coz of Lack of law enforcement, deep rooted corruption and total disregard for ladbor safety from construction firm.

— Chankya against fascism (@CheapChanakya) March 14, 2023

Not just safety. We need to get much better at their accommodation facilities as well.

Kinda sad reality. 🙁

— Hardik Sojitra (@SojitraHardik) March 14, 2023