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Over 400 Women Turn Up For AIKS’s First-Ever Women Farmers' State Convention 2025-01-10 [The Wire]

MSRTC Workers' Union Rejects Government's Plan To Regularise Maxi Cabs 2025-01-02 [The Free Press Journal]

Mumbai’s BEST workers’ union protests over BMC’s neglect, calls for revival steps 2024-12-27 [Express News Service]

Bombay High Court permits track maintainers union to contest railway trade union polls 2024-11-19 [PTI]

Gig workers decry lack of consideration in party election manifestos 2024-11-19 [The Indian Express]

Nationwide Gig Workers’ Strike Disrupts Online Services in Pune and Mumbai 2024-10-31 [Punekar News]

Bank employees in Maharashtra to go on strike on November 16; demand staff security, action against ‘assaulters’ 2024-10-19 [The Hindu]

Panchayat workers protest over prolonged demands 2024-10-01 [TNN]

RTO employees call off indefinite strike after agreement on key demands 2024-09-27 [MidDay]

State Transport Workers Call Off Strike After Meeting With CM Eknath Shinde 2024-09-05 [The Free Press Journal]

Resident doctors indefinite strike intensified in on its fourth day on Friday 2024-08-16 [MSN]

Waste picker braves lengthy court fight to finally receive PCMC dues 2024-08-15 [Indian Express]

JJ Hospital workers launch indefinite strike 2024-07-04 [HT]

Municipal union opposes limiting inheritance rights of sanitation workers 2024-06-23 [The Times]

Six workers dead, three injured in blast at explosives factory near Nagpur 2024-06-14 [PTI]

BMC Community Health Volunteers and ASHA Workers on Strike in Mumbai 2024-06-13 [PSI]

Swiggy, Instamart delivery workers go on strike over reduced pay in Pune’s Warje 2024-06-12 [Indian Express]

Asha workers demand fair wages and benefits in protest against BMC 2024-06-12 [HT]

Everything was over in just five seconds: Dombivli factory worker recounts horror 2024-05-25 [PTI]

Sanitation worker deaths: Maharashtra issues new guidelines for manual cleaning of septic tanks 2024-05-07 [Scroll]

Sanitation worker deaths: Maharashtra issues new guidelines for manual cleaning of septic tanks 2024-05-07 [Scroll]

Extreme heat leaves factory workers perspiring 2024-05-01 [TNN]

MMRDA directs contractors to limit outdoor activities for workers between 11 am and 4 pm amid hot spell 2024-04-21 [Indian Express]

Two workers injured in fire at construction site in Thane 2024-04-18 [PTI]

Over 300 Nashik bus conductors strike 2024-03-15 [TNN]

Doctors on strike in Maharastra over delayed stipend, poor hostel facilities 2024-02-26 [India Today]

ASHA workers on indefinite protest outside Thane collector’s office 2024-02-12 [HT]

Anganwadi workers win fight against faulty phones; to get new smartphones at Rs 154 crore 2024-01-29 [Indian Express]

Asha workers protest for higher remuneration 2024-01-18 [TNN]

Mumbai film industry workers' union decides to boycott shootings in Maldives 2024-01-11 [Business Today]

19 workers injured as gas furnace explodes at Pune fabrication unit 2023-12-28 [PTI]

Nagpur factory blast: Victims' kin to get jobs and pension 2023-12-21 [PTI]

Nine workers killed and three others seriously injured in a blast at an explosives manufacturing factory 2023-12-18 [The Wire]

17 lakh government employees to go on strike today for OPS 2023-12-14 [Express News Service]

Strike by Maharashtra anganwadi workers enters Day 3, to go on till ‘demands are met’ 2023-12-08 [The Express]

MMRDA fines contractor for worker’s death at metro site 2023-12-07 [Hindustan Times]

Protesting workers climb boiler tower of SAIL unit in Chandrapur 2023-12-03 [The Week]

Pune: General Motors Employees Union Hunger Strike Surpasses 50th Day Mark 2023-11-21 [The Free Press Journal]

Worker unions protest at Market Yard 2023-11-21 [The Times]

580 BMC sanitation workers win case for job permanency after 24 years 2023-11-13 [The Times]

Pune: General Motors India Workers Reach 37th Day Of Hunger Strike 2023-11-07 [The Free Press Journal]

https://news.abplive.com/states/maratha-quota-activist-manoj-jarange-patil-protest-workers-union-shut-key-mumbai-wholesale-market-today-1639667 2023-11-01 [ABP]

App-based rides, delivery agents off roads on Oct 25 2023-10-19 [The Times]

Shinde asks GM to consider higher severance for striking workers 2023-10-19 [The Hindu]

Pune gig workers go on 24-hour strike in demand Of legal rights 2023-10-19 [Medianama]

Pune: Leaders Including Rohit Pawar Rally Behind General Motor Workers Union In Hunger Strike 2023-10-09 [The Free Press Journal]

Sanitation workers demand survey of manual scavengers 2023-09-17 [ENS]

207 days of fighting for trade union rights at Barry Callebaut Baramati 2023-09-13 [IUF]

Three workers half buried after soil slides in the gas pit 2023-09-07 [HT]

Bollywood's behind-the-scenes women bypass 'boys' club' unions 2023-09-01 [The Straits Times]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

16-01-1997 Trade union leader, Dutta Samant was assassinated. He had led 300,000 mill workers in a year-long strike in 1982 in Mumbai. [more]

18-01-1982 300,000 textile workers in 60 mills across Mumbai went on strike for wage and bonus increases. Remaining out for 16 months, the workers were eventually defeated in what became a key event in the Indian workers' movement. [more]

19-01-1982 Unions organize a 1-day general strike of great significance in the history of the labour movement. For the first time in independent India, the peasantry and the rural-urban workers came together in a joint action. [more]