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ASHA workers to stage demonstration from Feb 15 over pay hike 2024-02-12 [HT]

Authorities Suspend 18 Smarak Samiti Employees Amid Protests for Unfulfilled Demands 2024-01-06 [The Mooknayak]

Smarak Samiti employees boycott work to press their demands 2024-01-01 [The Mooknayak]

'We Want Better Pay': Women Emergency Helpline Workers Stage Protest in Lucknow 2023-11-07 [The Quint]

Left Wins Ordnance Factory Dum Dum Election 2023-09-18 [Newsclick]

2 workers killed, 1 injured in explosion at spare-parts factory in Noida 2023-08-23 [PTI]

Ghaziabad: Three workers injured in fire at factory operating in residential area 2023-08-09 [HT]

From child labourer to certified skilled worker: How unions improve children's lives 2023-06-14 [BWI]

Around 10 Lakh State Employees Plan Strike on May 18 Over OPS, Pay Commission Recommendations 2023-04-30 [Newsclick]

Power Employees Hold Demonstration Against 'Breach Of Promise' By UPPCL 2023-03-26 [Newsclick]

UPPCL Strike Called Off, UP Govt Assures to Implement Dec 3 Agreement 2023-03-21 [Newsclick]

Electricity Strike: Why UP electricity dept workers are protesting? Allahabad High Court issues warrant against union leaders 2023-03-19 [Zee]

Months After Protest, Govt Hikes 16 Paisa/km for UPSRTC Contract Drivers; Union Cry Foul 2023-01-08 [Newsclick]

Streetlight workers on inLucknow 2022-12-09 [NEWSClick]

Power employees call off strike after management accedes to some of their demands 2022-12-04 [The Times]

employees of UP Power Corporation Limited start indefinite strike over pay scales 2022-11-30 [NewsClick]

Sanitation workers deny minister's proposal, strike to continue 2018-05-14 [The Times]

Workers' protest: UP puts Varanasi discom privatisation on the back burner 2020-10-07 [Financial Express]

Congress joins state employees in condemning Yogi govt's drive against senior staff 2018-07-10 [Natl Herald]

12 people killed, 21 injured in explosion at factory 2022-06-06 [PTI]

Labour unions highlight six-point charter of demands 2022-05-02 [TNN]

Labour unions demand rights, better facilities 2022-05-02 [TNN]

Migrant workers from East UP: Where are they now? 2022-04-16 [TOI]

Police arrest journalists in retaliation for news report 2022-04-12 [IFJ]

Trade union strike affects services partially 2022-03-29 [The Pioneer]

Uttar Pradesh: Power sector workers to observe strike on March 28, 29 2022-03-23 [ITV]

Uttar Pradesh registers 8.22 crore unorganized workers, highest in India: Official 2022-03-07 [IE]

For Aligarh's Lock Workers, Rising Costs, Low Wages Primary Concerns in Polling Season 2022-02-07 [The Wire]

Give jobs back to ambulance workers, health dept will tell private firm 2021-08-23 [The Times]

Contractual Workers of UP Power Sector Not Paid for 2 Months, Threaten to Boycott Work 2021-08-22 [Newsclick]

Strike by ambulance workers in UP enters 3rd day, 570 staffers terminated 2021-07-29 [The Times]

UP journalist hit by car and assaulted after critical report 2021-07-05 [IFJ]

Coronavirus News LIVE Updates: Over 1,600 BSA teachers, workers died in UP since April due to COVID-19, says teachers' body 2021-05-18 [CNBC]

Overworked, underpaid: Asha workers, the frontline warriors in rural UP's Covid battle 2021-05-14 [India Today]

Over 80,000 migrant workers returned to Agra in April amid Covid surge 2021-05-03 [India Today]

Women health workers take lead over men in Covid vaccination 2021-01-18 [HT]

Murri Bandh strike enters into 11th day 2020-10-28 [Times of India]

CITU, AIKS, AIAWU and AIDWA demand TIME bound effective enquiry of Hathras case under the supervision of supreme court 2020-10-05 [CITU]

Uttar Pradesh police arrest journalist for social media posts 2020-08-20 [IFJ]

Uttar Pradesh police charge Scroll.in executive editor Supriya Sharma 2020-06-19 [IFJ]

Coronavirus: Yogi govt to give aid to daily wagers 2020-03-18 [IANS]

10 workers hospitalised after gas leak at paper mill 2019-10-07 [PTI]

Collectorate, tehsil staff strike work 2019-08-22 [TNN]

Here's why workers at Modern Coach Factory in Rae Bareli are unhappy 2019-06-28 [DNA]

Lucknow: Two workers choke to death in sewer 2019-06-16 [TNN]

Migrant workers who returned to UP's Banda to vote complain of intimidation by officials, long journey home 2019-05-21 [FirstPost]

Mill officials, union members booked after clash 2019-05-03 [The Times]

Uttar Pradesh Govt Slaps ESMA as 20 Lakh Employees on Strike demanding Old Pension Scheme 2019-02-06 [The Wire]

Attack on sanitation staff prompts workers to go on strike 2018-12-30 [TNN]

Collectorate staff goes on flash strike 2018-12-01 [TNN]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

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]