Tamil Nadu Justice for Jeyasre: how a brutal murder led to a better deal for garment workers

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]