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Bihar Nursery Union Protests Outside JD(U) Office, Demands Direct Meeting with Chief Minister Over Unresolved Issues 2025-09-08 [The Patna Press]

Bihar Nursery Union Protests Outside JD(U) Office, Demands Direct Meeting with Chief Minister Over Unresolved Issues 2025-09-08 [The Patna Press]

Poor coordination or old coupling method: Reason behind railway worker's death 2024-11-12 [IndiaToday]

UNI Global Union Calls for Immediate Action and Support for 102 Ambulance Workers in Bihar, India 2024-08-21 [UNI Global Union]

ambulance workers’ strike intensifies amidst wage and labour disputes 2024-07-10 [UNI Global Union]

Bihari journalist killed in stabbing 2024-07-02 [IFJ]

Aanganwadi workers’ protest rocks Bihar assembly 2023-11-07 [PSU Watch]

Hindi daily journalist assassinated outside home in Bihar state 2023-08-23 [IFJ]

Garbage piles up as sanitation workers strike enters 4th day 2022-08-31 [Hindustan Times]

Sanitation workers’ stir enters 2nd day 2022-08-29 [TNN]

Striking Midday Meal Cooks Begin Two-day Gherao of Nitish Kumar's Residence in Patna 2019-01-23 [Newsclick]

Teachers to protest Bihar govt's directive to monitor liquor consumption 2022-01-30 [The National Herald]

6 killed in explosion at noodle factory 2021-12-26 [The Hindu]

Katihar Jute Mills' Closure Pushes Workers, Farmers to a Dead-End 2020-09-07 [NewsClick]

Mid-day Meal Cooks to Intensify Protest if Govt Fails to Respond 2019-02-08 [Newsclick]

Shutdown in Bihar hits rail, road services 2019-02-05 [The News]

Indefinite Strike by 2 Lakh Mid-Day Meal Cooks Hits Attendance in Bihar Schools 2019-01-17 [News Click]

Transport union joins bandh bandwagon 2018-09-09 [The Telegraph]

State 2nd in labour migration - Bihar contributes 15% emigrants to Gulf nations, more than TN & Kerala 2017-01-28 [Telegraph India]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

14-04-1920 At Madurai, Tamil Nadu, 750 women workers went on a strike against patriarchal practices at the workplace. This strike, from 14 April to 10 June 1920, was the first recorded strike in the cotton mills of South India. [more]

27-04-1918 The country's first labour union was born in the city of Chennai, then known as Madras, when workers of Buckingham and Carnatic Mills formed the Madras Labour Union. [more]