Footloose labourers in India are migrant, casual, seasonal, and transient workers who lack ties to a specific trade, employer, or location, moving from one worksite to another for daily wages in sectors like construction, brick kilns, agriculture, domestic work, and street vending. They face numerous vulnerabilities such as no job security, poor wages, unsafe working conditions, exclusion from labor laws and welfare boards, exploitation by contractors, lack of housing and food security, and difficulty in accessing entitlements across states. Women and children among them bear additional gender-specific challenges including wage discrimination and unsafe environments. NAILU’s response includes grassroots mapping, union formation, advocacy for national portability of benefits like ration cards, legal aid, safety training, and policy dialogues, resulting in successful pilot campaigns and legal resolutions. The organization also actively collects and shares stories from the ground to humanize statistics and advocates for universal registration, a national welfare framework, and inclusion of workers in policymaking, inviting public engagement through volunteering, reporting violations, and partnerships to make this invisible workforce visible and dignified.