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India Tamil Nadu 500 Samsung India factory workers hold sit-in to protest suspension of 3 union activists [HRWorld] 09-02-2025

India Central Budget has undermined agricultural sector and rights of workers, say union leaders [The Hindu] 05-02-2025

India Workers to stage mass protest on 5 February [IndustriALL] 03-02-2025

India CITU denounces the anti-people Union budget 2025-26- a blue print of loot and plunder on the people and the national economy [CITU] 02-02-2025

India Delhi Slavery in 2024: A story from New Delhi [The Leaflet] 01-02-2025

India Kerala ‘These are women workers in Communist Kerala’: Rima Kallingal backs hair stylists on hunger strike [Mathrubhumi] 30-01-2025

India Tamil Nadu Trade union with more than 50 per cent workers' support can be sole negotiator with management: Madras HC [The Indian Express] 30-01-2025

India Supreme Court Asks Union To Consider Bringing Law To Protect Domestic Workers' Rights [Live Law] 29-01-2025

India Gujarat No social security, paid less than minimum wage: Tribal workers toil to keep Gujarat’s cities clean [News Laundry] 27-01-2025

India Tamil Nadu Samsung workers’ union registered after prolonged struggle [The News Minute] 27-01-2025


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Tamil Nadu 500 Samsung India factory workers hold sit-in to protest suspension of 3 union activists 2025-02-09 [HRWorld]

Maharashtra Contractual workers of Navi Mumbai civic body to launch strike for equal pay, threatening essential services 2025-02-09 [The Express]

Tamil Nadu Employees of Samsung India resort to sit-in strike at TN plant 2025-02-08 [Your Story]

Tamil Nadu Samsung workers go on strike again demanding reinstatement of suspended staff 2025-02-08 [The Hindu]

Tamil Nadu Samsung workers’ strike day 3: Deadlock over union leaders’ suspension 2025-02-08 [The Hindu]

Telangana AITUC backs Singareni workers’ protest 2025-02-08 [Hans]

Samsung workers resume strike over suspension of union leaders 2025-02-08 [Mint]

Kerala Malayalam film Baakki Vannavar sheds light on the gig economy trap for young workers 2025-02-07 [The News Minute]

USA CITU condemns inhuman indignified treatment of deported Indians by US govt; urges indian govt to break shameful silence and act 2025-02-06 [CITU]

Telangana INTUC Protests Against Union Budget 2025-02-06 [The Chronicle]

Switzerland No relief for dismissed Rieter India workers yet 2025-02-06 [IndustriALL]

Tamil Nadu Samsung suspended three employees affiliated to unions 2025-02-05 [TNN]

Central Budget has undermined agricultural sector and rights of workers, say union leaders 2025-02-05 [The Hindu]

Telangana TGSRTC Workers Threaten to Go on Strike 2025-02-05 [The Chronicle]

Uttarakhand Asha workers to rally for fair wages, pension at Delhi conference 2025-02-05 [The Times]

Goa AITUC demands immediate action on labour issues in Goa 2025-02-05 [The Goan]

Workers to stage mass protest on 5 February 2025-02-03 [IndustriALL]

CITU denounces deceptive “unified pension scheme” demands unconditional restoration of old pension scheme 2025-02-02 [CITU]

CITU denounces the anti-people Union budget 2025-26- a blue print of loot and plunder on the people and the national economy 2025-02-02 [CITU]

Telangana Gig Workers Union Welcomes Social Security Scheme in Budget 2025-02-02 [LatestLY]

Delhi Slavery in 2024: A story from New Delhi 2025-02-01 [The Leaflet]

Tamil Nadu Trade union with more than 50 per cent workers' support can be sole negotiator with management: Madras HC 2025-01-30 [The Indian Express]

Kerala ‘These are women workers in Communist Kerala’: Rima Kallingal backs hair stylists on hunger strike 2025-01-30 [Mathrubhumi]

SC calls for law to secure domestic workers’ rights 2025-01-30 [The Times]

Supreme Court Asks Union To Consider Bringing Law To Protect Domestic Workers' Rights 2025-01-29 [Live Law]

Rajasthan Jaipur sanitation workers vandalise civic body headquarters over union poll delay 2025-01-28 [Today]

Tamil Nadu DMK govt registers Samsung workers’ union after seven-month protests 2025-01-28 [The Times]

Telangana RTC JAC to serve notices for state-wide strike 2025-01-27 [Today]

AITUC Announces New Initiatives for VST Workers 2025-01-27 [The Chronicle]

Tamil Nadu TN govt registers Samsung India Workers Union under Trade Union Act 2025-01-27 [DTNext]

Tamil Nadu Labour Department clears registration of Samsung India Workers Union 2025-01-27 [The Indian Express]

Tamil Nadu Samsung workers’ union registered after prolonged struggle 2025-01-27 [The News Minute]

Chandigarh EEFI Announces Protests on Jan 31 in Solidarity With Chandigarh Power Employees’ Struggle 2025-01-27 [News Click]

Tamil Nadu Over 900 Tasmac staff arrested for taking out a protest demanding permanent jobs 2025-01-27 [The Hindu]

Gujarat No social security, paid less than minimum wage: Tribal workers toil to keep Gujarat’s cities clean 2025-01-27 [News Laundry]

Tamil Nadu Journalist hacked to death 2025-01-26 [IFJ]

CITU Denounces the Privatisation of FSNL 2025-01-26 [CITU]

Punjab Hunger strike by ranked four workers 2025-01-26 [Passionate Geek]

Tamil Nadu Samsung stir: CITU warns of protest if workers' union not registered by Jan 27 2025-01-26 [DTNext]

Maharashtra Eight workers killed in blast at ordnance factory 2025-01-26 [Indian Express]

Assam Pay ₹70 crore to clear dues of ATCL workers: Supreme Court 2025-01-25 [PTI]

Kerala How Kerala’s trade unions have failed women 2025-01-25 [Scroll]

Manipur ASHA Workers Begin Cease-Work Strike, To Boycott Republic Day Celebrations 2025-01-25 [Northeast News]

Punjab Powercom union holds protest against termination of worker 2025-01-25 [The Tribune]

Punjab Powercom union holds protest against termination of worker 2025-01-25 [The Tribune]

Gujarat NHRC, India takes suo motu cognisance of the reported death of two workers due to asphyxiation while cleaning a sewage pumping station 2025-01-24 [NHRC]

Kerala Government employees strike across Kerala despite ‘dies non’ warning 2025-01-22 [HR Katha]

Manipur All Manipur ASHA Workers’ Union announces work cessation over unfulfilled demands 2025-01-22 [The Times]

Kerala Malayalam cinema’s reckoning: The Hema report and its aftermath, five months later 2025-01-22 [News Laundry]

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