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Many of the tech workers had overlapping engagements in both areas. These efforts were primarily aimed at navigating the alienation they experienced as tech workers, while also fostering a sense of community centred around rights and social citizenship.\n\nNonetheless, the Bengali tech workers’ involvement with Bengali lower-class migrants living in the bastis—initially through civic interventions and later, as we show in the subsequent sections of this chapter, through sustained efforts to unionize them into the Inter-state Migration Federation of Karnataka (IMFK) and the All India Gig Workers Union (AIGWU), both affiliated with the traditional trade union CITU—also revealed an inherent contradiction, not just solidarity. The tech workers were relatively privileged, not only in terms of class status but also within the caste hierarchy when contrasted with lower class migrant workers living in bastis. Yet, they continued their efforts to organize these workers.\n\nAs described by our participant Samrat:\n\n“Even though we get a 6 digit salary, wear nice clothes, but don’t forget we are also nothing but petty labour. Maybe we are a bit sophisticated. The hire and fire regime in the corporate world has made every job insecure now, these workers, rag pickers also have the same insecurity. The only difference is we still have some place to raise our voice, they have nothing. If I demand for job security these people should also have that platform too right? they cannot be simply jailed because of suspicion [as illegal citizens] right?”\n\nWhile many members of AIITEU earn better wages and identify with both professional roles and tech management, the labour conditions they face expose their proletarianized reality. This contradictory class position (Wright, 1980), coupled with the absence of meaningful civic and socio-political participation in the host city’s formal structures, pushed these workers to seek solidarity and collective action as a means of asserting their rights and visibility. However, when they also foster solidarity with other marginalized and precarious workers—specifically, those who share their ethnic and linguistic background, this solidarity is not solely born from a labour stand point, but also because they interpreted the frames of migrant labour precarity through cultural frames. As Dipak expressed when asked why, as a tech worker, he engages with the lowerclass Bengali migrant workers in the bastis, “The kind of injustice and hard life that they go through, I feel compelled to contribute in my limited capacity, however possible. They are my people, after all.” Therefore, the Bengali sub-national consciousness shaped their socio-political engagements within Bengaluru city.\n\n9 TRANSVERSAL UNIONISM: RESISTING AND NAVIGATING\n\n243","previous_page":242,"next_page":244}