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Members of teachers’ unions await meeting with CM Bhagwant Mann, detained 2024-03-04 [The Tribune]

Trade Union Announces March 11 Protest Against Train Suspension Trains to be Stopped in Punjab on March 11: Union Announces Walk Against Central Govt-Punjab 2024-02-25 [Geo TV]

Process on to regularise 14,417 Punjab employees, terms irk unions 2024-01-29 [The Tribune]

Employees’ union holds protest in solidarity with anganwadi workers 2024-01-26 [The Tribune]

Anganwadi workers at SAD’s rally to face stern action: Minister 2024-01-14 [The Tribune]

Water supply, sanitation dept’s contractual staff stage protest, demand regular jobs 2023-12-31 [The Tribune]

Secretariat extends support to ministerial staff strike 2023-12-14 [Indian Express]

No response from govt, ministerial staff extend strike for another week 2023-12-12 [Indian Express]

Sanitation staff take up demands with Amritsar civic body officials 2023-12-03 [The Tribune]

Overworked, say ASHA workers 2023-12-01 [The Tribune]

Employees' unions protest in support of expelled labourers 2023-11-22 [The Tribune]

State Ministerial Services Union has decided to extend their pen down strike till November 20 2023-11-19 [The Express]

Seeking benefits under welfare schemes: 91k applications of construction workers gather dust 2023-11-12 [The Times]

SSA employees' union to hold protest in Sangrur tomorrow 2023-10-26 [The Tribune]

8 hurt as massive blaze erupts in Mohali chemical factory, DC orders inquiry 2023-09-28 [Express News Service]

Amritsar: Roadways, mini-bus union strike irks commuters 2023-09-21 [The Tribune]

Workers of Punjab Roadways, PRTC to protest from September 20 2023-09-18 [The Times]

Seeking regularisation, 2 ‘motivator workers’ climb atop water tank in Mohali 2023-08-08 [The Times]

Newly regularised teachers in Punjab warn of stir, say not getting paid enough 2023-07-31 [The Times]

Roadways contractual employees hold rally 2023-06-23 [The Tribune]

Lal Chand Kataruchak meets representatives of Janglat Workers Union 2023-06-23 [5 Dariya News]

Safai sewaks, sewermen protest outside Fatehgarh Sahib MC office 2023-06-13 [The Tribune]

Minister’s supporters face off against union members 2023-06-07 [The Tribune]

Anganwadi centres lack basic facilities: Workers 2023-06-03 [The Tribune]

Employees stage protest 2023-05-31 [The Times]

ASHA workers’ union protests against govt 2023-05-28 [The Tribune]

Farm labourers lay siege to SSP office for 2 hrs 2023-05-23 [The Tribune]

Sanitary workers put off strike, to meet CM today 2023-04-28 [The Tribune]

Two workers dead, four injured in blast at Ludhiana steel factory 2022-12-21 [Express News Service]

Labour union workers staged a massive protest outside the residence of Punjab Chief Minister 2022-11-30 [APB NewsBureau]

The clerical workers went on strike for the fifth day in a row and knocked the barrels 2022-10-15 [The News Express]

Lakhs of power sector workers and engineers to hold demonstrations on November 23 2022-09-18 [News Express]

Punjab takes first step towards regularising contract staff; approves policy for teachers 2022-09-07 [Express News Service]

Labour unions to launch protest outside CM Bhagwant Mann's Sangrur residence 2022-09-05 [PTC News]

Contractual employees of Punjab Roadways, PRTC go on 3-day strike 2022-08-14 [The Print]

Contractual Roadways workers hold gate rally 2022-07-27 [Tribune]

Not paid salary for five months, sanitation workers go on strike 2022-07-27 [Tribune]

Teachers, ASHAs, nurses, bus employees — why Punjab has become a state of strikes 2021-12-12 [The Print]

Workers protest govt's ‘apathy' on Labour Day 2020-05-02 [Tribune News Service]

Farm labour body's activists to join Delhi stir on Jan 7 2020-12-29 [TNN]

SEWA Punjab observes Domestic Workers' Day 2021-06-17 [TNN]

Ludhiana: Trade unions extend support to SKM's Agnipath protest 2022-06-24 [TNN]

In Punjab's Labour Hubs, Workers Plead For Jobs At One-Third Wages 2019-05-14 [Bloombergquint]

Why fashion has a stake in India's farmer protests? 2021-02-20 [Businessoffashion]

Transport workers' stir from Nov 30 if cabinet fails to commit regular jobs 2021-11-28 [The Times]

Pay scales row: Punjab teachers' protest hits one-month mark 2022-01-01 [HT]

Amritsar Municipal Corporation employees' strike enters 2nd day 2021-03-28 [The Tribune]

Anganwadi workers to protest outside minister's house 2019-06-11 [The Tribune]

Anganwari workers' strike enters 3rd day 2018-08-06 [Tribune News Service]

SSA-RMSA teachers threaten hunger strike in CM's district 2018-10-02 [The Tribune]

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]