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NHM employees announce 48-hour strike from Apr 1 2026-03-30 [The Daily Excelsior]

Medical employees’ strike enters day 2 in Jammu, protest held at GMC over salary deduction 2026-03-25 [The Free Press]

Kashmiri journalists pressured by police for their reporting 2026-02-05 [IFJ]

Police raid Kashmir Times office 2025-11-25 [IFJ]

Daily Wagers Sangharash Samiti to go on strike from Aug I 2025-07-27 [Daily Excelsior.]

Coal mine workers protest in Kalakote’s Mogla 2025-07-01 [Daily Excelsior]

CITU welcomes the ceasefire 2025-05-14 [CITU]

After PDL Worker Dies, Union Demands Compensation for Family 2025-04-11 [Convener]

Unpaid backbone of Kashmir: The silent struggles of Anganwadi workers 2025-03-11 [The Express-Tribune]

All J&K CPW and Cook Employees Education Union Holds Peaceful Protest in Handwara 2025-01-12 [The Global Kashmir]

KCWU condemns attack at Mazhama 2024-11-02 [Greater vKasmir]

EJAC, JKECC Employees Union Urge New Government to Resolve Long-Standing Employee Grievances in J&K 2024-10-22 [Bold News]

Labour Commr hosts interaction program with Labour Unions 2024-10-22 [The Daily Excelsior]

Daily wagers have high hopes from NC Govt: Som 2024-10-18 [The Daily Excelsior]

‘Contractual Staff Strike’: J&K Hospitals Asked Not To Refer Patients To PGI 2024-10-13 [The Observer]

AITUC shows concern over ban on strikes 2023-11-12 [The Daily Excelsior]

Entire Political Class Attends Last Rites as Trade Union Leader is Cremated 2023-07-03 [The Times]

In death of Kashmiri trade union leader Sampat Prakash, a voice of reason and justice lost 2023-07-03 [Scroll]

Railway employees observe one-day hunger strike, project demands 2022-10-13 [Daily Excelsior]

Electricity Workers Movement's strike against the government's privatization move a success 2021-12-28 [Pressenza]

Over 35,000 labourers return to revive J&K's moribund brick kilns 2020-07-25 [The Hindu]

JKCCTU protests against Union Govt's failure to address issues of employees 2019-01-09 [The Monitor]

Brewery workers hospitalised 2022-05-09 [Tribune]

Bihar migrant workers fear for their lives, desperate to return 2022-04-07 [Express News Service]

Two more migrant workers shot dead in Kashmir 2021-10-18 [PTI]

Lockdown and protests due to new land laws 2020-11-02 [The San Diego Union-Tribune ]

33,000 PHE workers to go on strike, say wages not paid 2020-02-07 [The Tribune]

Power Outrage: Fearing Privatisation, J&K Electricity Department Workers Plan a Strike 2019-09-29 [News 18]

MGNREGA workers protest denial of wages for 3 years 2019-05-21 [Tribune]

Daily earners to go on strike today 2018-09-22 [The Tribune]

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]