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Tea workers invoke ILO Article 24, allege systemic labour rights violations 2026-05-04 [Down to Earth]

In Asansol, sanitation workers ended their strike, but their dues remain unpaid 2026-04-03 [NewsGram]

Unhappy with pay hike, ASHA workers protest outside Bengal health department head quarters 2026-02-06 [The Hindu]

Four media workers assaulted during protests in West Bengal 2026-02-05 [IFJ]

CITU Condemns the Institutional Murder of Workers in the Najirabad Warehouse Fire 2026-02-02 [CITU]

ASHA Workers Protest Is a Warning to the TMC in Poll-Bound West Bengal 2026-01-22 [The Wire]

ASHA workers launch strike over pay, status demands 2025-12-27 [Millenium Post]

100-day work yet to restart: Workers’ body may move High Court 2025-11-18 [TNN]

Working women in rural Bengal earn better than urban counterparts: Report 2025-09-17 [Social News XYZ]

PF dues trigger worker protest 2025-08-13 [Telegraph Online]

TMC trade union office ‘vandalised’ 2025-08-10 [Millenium Post]

With Child Labour Schools Shut, Teachers and Students Return to Low-Wage Jobs 2025-07-26 [The Wire]

ICDS workers in West Bengal protest against delay in meeting demands including budget allocation 2025-07-16 [The Hindu]

NREGA labourers and student outfits back July 9 strike 2025-07-07 [Telegraph India]

Tea workers to protest across North Bengal over pending issues 2025-06-22 [Statesman]

Domestic Workers’ Unions Growing Strong, Yet Fight for Rights, Recognition Goes on 2025-06-16 [News Click]

Rally held in Kharibari in support of Nationwide General Strike called by AIUTUC on 20th May 2025-05-12 [The Times]

Supreme Court quashes appointment of 25,753 teachers and staff 2025-04-03 [PTI]

Two workers killed during manual scavenging in Bengal's Nandigram 2025-02-16 [Lokmat Times]

Labour Rights for Sex Workers: Sonagachi-Based Union Cites Belgium Legislation, Demands Rights and Recognition of Sex Work As Valid Profession 2025-01-15 [LatestLY]

Workers’ unions protest outside West Bengal BJP office demanding resumption of MGNREGA 2025-01-12 [The Hindu]

West Bengal BJP responsible for fund freeze under MGNREGA, says agricultural workers’ union 2025-01-10 [The Hindu]

Two Workers’ Unions protest at Naxalbari Tea Estate over various demands 2025-01-06 [The Times]

Implement the SOP for abandoned tea gardens: workers union appeal to WB govt 2024-12-10 [The Hindu]

Tea planters, unions differ on bonus rate 2024-09-11 [Telegraph ]

Striking junior doctors defy SC deadline, spurn Mamata's talks invite 2024-09-11 [Times of India]

BJP,TMC supporters square off during bengal Banh over doctor rape-murder 2024-08-29 [Times of India]

How a bank run by sex workers is helping women turn their lives around 2024-09-07 [i news]

GREF can maintain NH 10 better, says Tara Sundas 2024-08-30 [Kalimpong News]

Indian doctors resume work but protests over medic's rape, murder continue 2024-08-23 [Al-Jazeerah]

Kolkota doctor rape-murder: TMC, BJP & CPM in RG Kar blame game, plan separate protests 2024-08-16 [Times of India]

Kolkata doctor rape-murder case: CBI takes over, key doctor's body ends strike 2024-08-14 [Times of India]

India's doctors strike to protest murder of medic 2024-08-14 [Al-Jazeerah]

Darjeeling remembers martyrs of 1955 for cause of tea garden workers 2024-06-26 [The News]

Trinamool employees union launches protest https://www.millenniumpost.in/bengal/trinamool-employees-union-launches-protest-565162 2024-05-25 [Millenium Post]

Leftist trade unions on Wednesday demanded strict enforcement of the eight-hour workday at a gathering to mark the International Workers' Day 2024-05-01 [Republic]

Political Campaigns Have Overshadowed Workers' Plight in the Tea Gardens 2024-04-19 [The Wire]

Mechanisation, shutting down of stone quarries push Pakur’s workers to the brink 2024-02-10 [NewsGram Desk]

Body of Trinamul Congress trade union leader found with multiple injury marks at tea estate in Jalpaiguri 2024-02-05 [The Telegraph]

Two workers’ hands blown off in scrap godown blast 2024-01-29 [TOI]

Victims of patriarchy, 50% female domestic workers deserted by their husband 2024-01-23 [Counterview]

Around 500 workers of a Dooars tea garden that closed down thrice in two years, forced to migrate 2023-12-26 [Telegraph Online]

Three killed, over 30 injured as brick kiln chimney collapses on workers 2023-12-14 [PTI]

Tea Garden Workers Against Land Missue in Hills and Terai Region 2023-11-14 [Newsclick]

Workers stage protest after four Darjeeling tea estates fix bonus rate at 9 per cent 2023-10-19 [The Telegraph]

Workers Protest Dismissal of 2 Union Leaders at Durgapur Steel Plant Amid Agitation 2023-10-17 [Newsclick]

‘Struggling to buy even soap’: Their wages unpaid, Bengal MNREGA workers being pushed into poverty 2023-10-07 [Scroll]

No work, PF or Gratuity For Tea Workers Of North Bengal As Plantations Close, Managements Flout Rules 2023-09-11 [The Times]

The never-ending struggles of West Bengal’s tea workers to claim land 2023-08-20 [EastMojo]

CITU condemns police atrocity on Plantation Leaders 2023-08-19 [CITU]

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]