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Sanitary workers stage protest in Pudukottai 2024-05-02 [The Hindu]

Domestic Workers Welfare Trust conducts financial literacy programme 2024-04-08 [DT Next]

Warped deal: the victimisation of women in the garment industry 2024-03-03 [The Hindu]

Garment Workers Demand Fair Wages Amidst Industry Exploitation 2024-03-03 [BNN Breaking]

Trade union members stage protest in Coimbatore 2024-02-16 [The Hindu]

Workers at Apple supplier Flex's India plant stage one-day strike 2024-02-16 [Reuters]

Garment workers protest delay in wage increase 2024-02-15 [IndustriALL]

Wage revision: Committee formed for talks with transport unions 2024-02-08 [News Today]

Agricultural Workers Protest ABPS in MGNREGA, Demand Higher Budget Allocation and Timely Disbursal of Wages 2024-01-31 [Newsclick]

TN: Transport Workers Begin Indefinite Strike, DMK Accused of Failing to Fulfil Electoral Promises 2024-01-09 [Newsclick]

Tamil Nadu Transport unions to go on strike from tomorrow as talks with govt failed 2024-01-08 [News9live]

Amid stalemate in talks, transport staff in TN told not to take leave 2024-01-06 [The Express]

Stalin chairs meeting with Sivasankar in effort to block transport strike 2024-01-05 [DTNEXT]

Plantation workers stage protest in Salem 2023-12-30 [The Hindu]

Worker killed in explosion at Indian Oil Corporation's facility, another seriously injured 2023-12-28 [PTI]

Salt Corporation workers begin indefinite strike 2023-11-07 [The Hindu]

Japanese Automobile Company Unipres Dismisses 127 Workers for Forming Union 2023-10-26 [Newsclick]

Corporation contract workers strike for second consecutive day 2023-10-22 [The Hindu]

Two Women’s Scheme Workers’ Unions Stage Statewide Protests 2023-10-15 [Newsclick]

Movement Demanding Social Security in Employment Launched in Chennai 2023-08-02 [Newsclick]

Salt workers’ welfare board set up, now needs to step up 2023-07-29 [The Times]

Lorry headload workers stir continues on 8th day in succession at Erode to press goods transport 2023-07-20 [Afternoon news]

‘108’ ambulance workers stage protest 2023-07-09 [The Hindu]

Recruit bus drivers and conductors on compassionate grounds, unions urge govt. 2023-07-07 [The Hindu]

4 Workers Dismissed by Lotte Choco Pie Factory for Forming Trade Union 2023-06-07 [Newsclick]

MTC workers resort to flash strike 2023-05-29 [DTNext]

Multipurpose health workers demand regularisation of service 2023-05-21 [The Hindu]

2 die of suffocation while cleaning septic tank on Labour Day 2023-05-02 [India Today]

Anganwadi workers stage overnight stir 2023-04-27 [TNN]

Unions fear working day may stretch to 16 hours 2023-04-23 [Express News Service]

NTC mill workers stage protest in TN demanding payment of wages 2023-04-23 [KNN Bureau]

AITUC protests against increase in working hours 2023-04-22 [TNN]

AITUC in Erode wants jobs of conservancy workers regularised 2023-04-08 [The Hindu]

Defeat the ulterior design of communal-devisive forces' attempts to divide the working people by creating panic amongst migrant workers 2023-03-10 [CITU]

Sanitation workers of Dharmapuri | An inhuman job, administrative corruption and caste bias 2023-03-05 [The Hindu]

Here's what we need to do for women factory workers 2023-03-05 [The Week]

Kanimozhi urges union ministers to resolve NTPL workers' strike 2023-02-18 [Express News Service]

Employees plan court fight against Ford India over closed factory 2023-01-04 [Business Standard]

Five workers suffer burn injuries at TN's Neyveli Lignite Corporation 2022-12-23 [PTI]

Sanitary workers' strike enters second day 2022-10-27 [PTI]

5,000 Sanitary Workers Keep Off Work, Seek Wage Hike 2022-10-26 [PTI]

CITU extends full support to the heroic strike action from 11 October 2022 at Yamaha Motors private limited at Kanchipuram 2022-10-16 [CITU]

Direct PSUs to hold talks with trade unions on bonus issue: CITU 2022-10-13 [DT Next]

Coimbatore: Conservancy workers call off strike, resume work 2022-10-06 [TNN]

Civic workers’ strike enters Day 3 2022-10-04 [TNN]

Conservancy workers across Coimbatore district to go on an indefinite strike 2022-10-02 [The Hindu]

Report of the National Council meeting of AICCTU Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu 2022-08-23 [AICCTU]

எந்தப் பயமுமின்றி ஒப்பந்தத் தொழிலாளர்களைச் சுரண்டும் ம்யூங்குவா ஆட்டோமேட்டிவ் 2018-03-23 [tnlabour]

Postal employees strike work 2022-08-10 [The Hindu]

RGGGH workers assault row: Protest seeking action against Dean 2022-07-31 [DT Next]

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]