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India May Day manifesto 2024 [CITU] 30-04-2024
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India Supreme Court asks states to inform steps taken to regularise special teachers working on contractual basis [Live Law] 14-03-2024
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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]