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Mangaluru: Gram Panchayat sanitation workers hold foot march, stage dharna over pending demands 2025-12-10 [Today]

Explainer: Karnataka Domestic Workers draft bill and why unions are concerned 2025-12-03 [The News Minute]

Mid-day meal workers stage protest demanding wage hike 2025-12-02 [IBC]

Karnataka govt warned: Don't pass domestic workers Bill without consulting workers 2025-12-02 [Counterview]

CITU stages protest in Madikeri against labour codes 2025-11-27 [The Times]

Labour unions protest against new codes 2025-11-27 [The Hindu]

CITU stage protest in Kalaburagi against implementation of labour codes 2025-11-23 [The Hindu]

Resident welfare associations, activists raise red flags over draft domestic workers Bill in Karnataka 2025-11-19 [The Times]

Domestic workers bill: Gaps in draft legislation worry unions, activists 2025-11-16 [The Deccan Herald]

Karnataka announces 12 annual paid period leaves for women workers, becomes first Indian state to do so 2025-11-15 [BT]

Domestic workers’ union urges Karnataka govt. to revise draft welfare Bill 2025-11-09 [The Hindu]

CITU victory: Monthly menstrual leave for women workers announced 2025-10-27 [IBC]

Behind Bengaluru’s seams: Women power city’s global garment hubs 2025-10-16 [The Mirror]

TCS, Employees' Union Hold Talks After Protests Over 20,000 Job Cuts 2025-10-16 [NDTV]

Mysuru Beedi Mazdoor Association seeks PM Modi's intervention to solve problem of beedi workers 2025-10-14 [The Deccan Herald]

Mangaluru: Beedi workers lay siege to depot demanding pending minimum wages and revised allowances 2025-10-10 [Today]

Karnataka becomes first Indian state to grant paid menstrual leave to all women 2025-10-10 [Maktob Media]

Gramin Bank Unions Hold Joint Conferences with Management to Address Key Issues of Regional Rural Bankers 2025-09-29 [The Kanal]

Half of sanitation workers in Bengaluru have no access to clean water 2025-09-10 [TOI]

Pourakarmikas celebrate abolition of contract labour in Bengaluru 2025-09-09 [The Deccan Herald]

Bengaluru pourakarmikas hold victory event to celebrate permanent worker status 2025-09-08 [The News Minute]

Garment workers’ convention discuss gender equality and workplace safety in Bengaluru 2025-09-01 [The Hindu]

Garment workers’ convention discuss gender equality and workplace safety in Bengaluru 2025-09-01 [The Hindu]

Women gig workers protest, allege company guards manhandled them 2025-08-30 [The Mirror]

Women gig workers demand implementation of new legislation 2025-08-29 [The Hindu]

ASHA workers urge government to keep its promise 2025-08-17 [TNN]

High Court extends stay on transport strike, warns trade unions of contempt proceeding 2025-08-09 [The Indian Express]

KSRTC Employees' trade unions to put indefinite strike on hold for a day 2025-08-05 [Indian Express]

Asha workers to launch statewide nightlong protest from Aug 12 2025-08-02 [Hans]

ASHA workers in Karnataka demand better incentives 2025-08-02 [The Week]

IT/ITeS Employees Union seeks action against TCS over job cuts 2025-07-31 [The Times]

IT workers' union files complaint against TCS with Labour Ministry over job cuts 2025-07-29 [ENS]

KSRTC workers plan indefinite strike from Aug 5 over pending demands 2025-07-27 [Daiji]

Ambulance staff in Karnataka threaten to strike over shift change 2025-07-27 [Express News Service]

Bengaluru: 108 ambulance workers to go on strike from August 1 2025-07-26 [Udayavani]

Anganwadi workers in Karnataka oppose facial recognition tech in ICDS programmes 2025-07-23 [The Hindu]

Quarry owners threaten indefinite strike over inaction 2025-07-23 [Indiatimes]

KSRTC staff on strike from August 5 over pay hike 2025-07-17 [TNIE]

Public sector workers in Bengaluru to join Nationwide strike on July 9 2025-07-07 [TNN]

Joint Committee of Trade Unions in Mysuru extends support to all-India general strike on July 9 2025-07-03 [The Hindu]

Workers’ union launches campaign demanding inclusion, lower-priced shares as Urban Company prepares for IPO 2025-06-02 [The Hindu]

Gig workers’ welfare programme: With ordinance out, govt to issue draft rules in two weeks 2025-05-30 [ET]

Bengaluru: “If demands are unmet, one-day free bus travel for men,” warn transport unions 2025-05-23 [Udayavani]

Karnataka has 20 lakh migrant workers,but only 80k registered, say unions 2025-04-20 [The Times]

State Minimum Wage Hike: Examining Implications for Unskilled Workers 2025-04-04 [The Deccan Herald]

Summer hits harder on Bengaluru’s gig workers 2025-03-15 [The Deccan Herald]

Bengaluru IT Employees Burn Posters Of Infosys Founder, L&T Chairman Over Long Working Hours Demand 2025-03-13 [Trak]

‘We are not your slaves’: IT employees in Bengaluru protest for work-life balance 2025-03-10 [The News Minute]

Bengaluru: IT employees' union demands right to disconnect, enforcement of work-hour limits 2025-03-10 [The Deccan Herald]

Bantwal: Flossy Vittal, Sumati elected to lead ASHA workers’ union taluk committee 2025-01-09 [Daiji World]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

3-12-1984 Bhopal chemical disaster, leading to hundreds of deaths. [more]

25-12-1968 Forty-four Dalits are burnt to death in Kizhavenmani village, Tamil Nadu. Retaliation for a campaign for higher wages by Dalit laborers. [more]

29-12-1948 Hind Mazdoor Sabha (Workers Assembly of India) national trade union centre is founded. [more]