I am Vijayalakshmi from eri scheme. I am here in Kadalur. Many are doing domestic helper work here. They have given requests in gram sabha. we can talk about that too. Lets ask their experience while doing domestic help. Vijayalakshmi : Whats your name? Kanniga: I am Kanniga. V: Where do you live? K: Thenampattinam. V: What work do you do? K:Domestic help. V: How much salary do you get for 1 hour work? K: There is nothing like salary for 1 hour job. V: We get Rs.80 for 1 hour job. Our union has given a book in which you can write how many hours do you work. We should fill i when we go inside and comeback. How many hours did we work and how actively did we work, we can know all these. We are member in PTS. We are given a domestic worker card. We can write down the work timings. What time do you go for work? K: I go at 9am and come back at 4pm. V: What salary do you get? K: I get Rs.5000. But dont know how much i get per hour. V: It seems like a low pay for the work you do. May be because its a village, they give that salary. You do so many work, how your health feels? K: I feel very tired. They give so much of work, i wash vessels and cloths, the soap is not suiting my hand. V: We have to take care of our health. You can ask them to change the soap. Have asked them? K: I have not. But i will ask. V: Our safety is first. SO if the soap is not suting you ask for another brand soap. (To another person) Have you asked? Person 2: yea. I ask. V: I dialed UK. Did you like it? P2: yes i liked it. V: We listened Naal Sollum Seithi. What do you have to say about it? P2: They dont know how to take care of things. They used to do like this during their time. SO they are continuing it. They are not educated enough. Otherwise they shouldnt have done like that. V: Again i will dial UK, you can listen it and register in it. Do you want to say anything? P2: We want to join union. Since we are in village almost 50 will join union and we would like to know so many things. Since it is a village, we dont know many things. So we want to join union. V: Sure. Many people are saying that they will join union. K: Thanks to UK.
