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Noida Protest 2026: A labour uprising the state refused to understand

The protests that paralysed Noida’s industrial belt in April 2026 exposed not only worsening labour conditions but also the growing tendency of the state to treat democratic labour mobilisation as a law-and-order problem

Five killed in Serum Institute fire in Pune

Migrant labourers fixing air-conditioning among the dead

Gujarat: 15 people including toddler killed after being run over by truck

A group of migrant labourers was asleep on a Surat footpath when the mishap occurred

Safai Karamchari Andolan campaigns against dry latrines

100-day campaign aims to end the unfair burden on Dalit women

Garbage piles up in Ahmedabad, as sanitation workers strike work

Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s sanitation workers strike has entered its fifth day today

A 2020 Report of 10 Worst Victims of Apathy: India’s Migrant Workers

How the unplanned and sudden lockdown led to chaos, suffering and even death

India yet to ratify the Convention on Migrant workers

As the migrant numbers in India have tripled over the years, it is yet to accede to the international treaty  

41 Orgns call for workers unions to join farmers protest

Over 41 networks and organisations from the unorganised sector have demanded a withdrawal of the three anti-farmer laws and for larger workers unions to join the mass protest

Wistron Factory Vandalism: Karnataka Gov’t registers FIR against 7,000 employees

Karnataka State IT/ITes Employee Union, and other organisations have condemned the criminal charges pressed against the contract workers

Wistron Factory violence: AICCTU blames State and management for exploitation

Compulsory 12-hour shifts, delay and non-payment of wages, no grievance redressal mechanism, night shifts for women are just some instances that pushed helpless workers to a point of desperation

Jharkhand: Unpaid for 9 months, Pakur forest labourers move HC

The PIL has been filed by a forest range officer who wrote several letters to authorities demanding the workers’ salaries

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