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Ajmer sanitation workers’ strike enters third day:Garbage piles up as 2,400 employees demand pending payments 2026-05-14 [Bhaskar]

Civil rights groups demand ₹800 minimum wage, MGNREGA restoration 2026-05-05 [The Times]

Jaipur gathering puts spotlight on women gig workers’ struggles 2026-02-05 [Counterview]

​'Slavery-like situations': Women gig workers rally against algorithmic control 2026-01-08 [Counterview]

108, 104 ambulance services in Rajasthan to halt from midnight:Employees announce strike; protest over low pay and extended shifts 2025-12-28 [Bhaskar]

Sanitation workers begin indefinite hunger strike 2025-11-24 [The Times]

11,000 bank employees and officers join the nationwide strike 2025-07-09 [IANS]

Jaipur sanitation workers vandalise civic body headquarters over union poll delay 2025-01-28 [Today]

Nominations for sanitation workers’ union poll begin 2025-01-12 [The Times]

Anganwadi workers launch indefinite strike 2025-01-10 [The Times]

Polls for Joint Valmiki and Sanitation Workers’ union president on Jan 29 2025-01-05 [The Times]

Worker killed, two injured in tunnel collapse in Kota 2024-12-02 [FE Online]

Sanitation workers stage agitation over elections, recruitment 2024-11-09 [The Times]

Why sanitation workers in Rajasthan are protesting 2024-08-10 [Indian Express]

Strike by sanitation workers continues 2024-03-17 [TNN]

‘Implement gig law by framing rules’ 2024-03-10 [The Times]

Unmarried women to be employed as Anganwadi workers 2024-02-29 [The Herald]

Sanitation workers to go on strike from Jan 23 over hiring 2024-01-17 [TNN]

Brick factory workers demonstrate with 10-point demands 2024-01-11 [IG]

Study by day, food delivery by night, this Pune civil services aspirant hopes to get khaki in 2024 2024-01-01 [The Express]

Rajasthan Gig Workers Bill: Understanding its shortcomings for effective implementation 2023-08-14 [FP]

Ola, Uber and Zomato: India's gig workers see hope in new state law 2023-08-12 [BBC]

Gig Workers' First Major Victory in India: Rajasthan Leads the Way 2023-07-30 [Wire]

India's first gig workers bill passed in Rajasthan: What is this law and who are these workers? 2023-07-26 [IndiaTV]

Government on Friday tabled the Rajasthan Platform Based GIG Workers (registration and welfare) Bill, 2023 2023-07-22 [PTI]

Workers death: Contractor held in Kota 2023-06-09 [TNN]

Sanitation workers in Jaipur to stir from tomorrow 2023-04-24 [TNN]

Strike called off, vets to resume work today 2022-09-02 [First India]

Jodhpur: 2 stones unit workers crushed to death under slabs 2022-07-29 [PTI]

How Labour Reforms Are Destroying Workers' Lives 2019-08-04 [Newsclick]

Silicosis, a death sentence for mine workers 2019-07-13 [The Hindu Business Line]

Buses off roads 2018-09-18 [The Hindu]

4,500 Rajasthan Buses To Remain Off Roads Today As Employees Strike 2018-09-17 [NDTV]

'Our fingers bleed': India's female miners toil over sandstone for the UK 2018-07-05 [The Guardian]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

1-05-1923 The country's first May Day celebration. [more]

8-05-1974 A national railway strike begins. 1.7 million workers were involved in demanding higher wages and shorter working hours. Indira Gandhi’s government brutally suppressed the strike with 1000s being sent to jail and losing their jobs. [more]

18-05-1905 Seafarer Surat Alley was born in India. He moved to Britain and during WWII and helped organise a strike of seamen to improve conditions for lascars: sailors on UK ships from Asia and the Middle East, who worked under inferior conditions. [more]