"For an estimated 45 million workers employed in India's garment and textile industry, battlelines are drawn each time there is a work-related injury, campaigners say."
""The accidents have a ripple effect on the entire family because in most cases, the woman is the only earning member," said Sujata Mody of the Garment and Fashion Workers' Union."
""In this case, the company had defaulted on paying its share of medical insurance, though they were deducting the workers' share from their salaries every month.""
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($1=67.175003 Indian rupees) (Reporting by Anuradha Nagaraj, Editing by Ed Upright and Lyndsay Griffiths. Please credit Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, women's rights, trafficking and climate change. Visit news.trust.org)
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