To increase wages and improve working conditions, the Samiti organized the saldars and khet majdoors (farm laborers) in a strike in Raikhed village. The gujar maldars called the police and downed shutters, but the tribals persisted and gheraoed the maldars. After this strik, a principle of collective bargaining was established whereby a group of saldars negotiated with a committee of maldars. A similar strike took place in about seventy villages, creating a climate of confidence. Shramik Sanghatana was able to equalize the daily wages of men and women, and to raise both saldar and rojdar wages. For saldars, wages up from Rs. 2,000 in 1982. To organize effective strikes, it was found that involvement of non-adivasi laborers was important so that maldars could not hire them instead. With laborers and farmers joining hands, it appeared at that time that this struggle for wages had changed the nature of the movement, from a caste (tribal) to a class (labor) one. Shramik Sanghatana also fought, and offered satyagrah, for the regularization of forest land. It established tarun mandals (youth groups) in each village. Tribal women also organized themselves under 'Stri Sanghatana' and fought against alcoholism, rape, and the atrocities of the police. They led morchas (marches), and used dharnas (sit-ins) and gheraos (besieging) as forms of protest to influence government officials.