Bio
Sangam Tripathy has been a trade union activist for 40 years. He recently retired as Assistant Regional Secretary, International Transport Workers Federation (ITF), Asia-Pacific region, based at its Delhi Office. Since 2017, his work has focused on active mentoring, organizing, mobilizing and networking of grassroots level app-based drivers and riders unions, associations, and self-help groups. After three years of on-ground work, the Indian Federation of App-based Transport Workers (IFAT) was established in December 2019. Since then, IFAT has been instrumental in raising the profile of app-based drivers and riders’ issues, influencing policy changes and advocating legislative interventions and reforms to promote and ensure decent work standards for these workers. IFAT currently represents over 35,000 app-based drivers and riders in 10 cities.
Sangam has worked at ITF for 25 years (1997-2022). Earlier, he worked at Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS) as Education Coordinator (1990-1996) and National Youth Committee Secretary.; in addition to working at the Indian Federation of Building & Wood Workers (1982-1989).
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