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Samsung India Workers Union protests suspension of employees, CITU plans massive strike

CHENNAI: Condemning the suspension of 15 more employees, over 500 workers of the Samsung India Workers Union on Friday staged a demonstration near Oragadam bridge in Kancheepuram. The CITU, backing the workers’ union, announced its plans for a massive one-day strike on March 10, expecting over 12,000 workers across 58 unions from various industrial sectors in Kancheepuram district to take …

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CITU plans protests at all SIPCOTs as 4th round of Samsung talks fail

New Indian Express

CHENNAI: Tension between Samsung India management and the CITU-backed Samsung India Workers Union may ratchet up as the fourth round of conciliatory talks between representatives of both sides over the suspension of three union office-bearers failed on Wednesday. CITU sources said that they learnt from Samsung representatives that 18 more workers may also be suspended soon. While the CITU called …

Samsung Workers Citu Talks Fail

10 months, 1 week ago

‘Maximize chaos.’ UC academic workers authorize strike, alleging rights violated during protests

LA Times

Unionized UC academic workers picket in November 2022. The union representing 48,000 graduate student teaching assistants, researchers and other academic workers across the University of California’s 10 campuses has voted to authorize a strike, alleging that its workers’ rights have been violated at several universities by actions against pro-Palestinian protests, union leaders announced. Rafael Jaime, the union’s co-president and a …

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1 year ago

Student bodies hold protests on campuses in Delhi University and Jamia

Hindustan Times

Student organisations from at least two universities in Delhi conducted protests against the Citizenship Act, 2019 on Tuesday, a day after the Centre implemented the contentious law that paves the way for citizenship to undocumented non-Muslim migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. Students from Jawaharlal Nehru University had also scheduled a protest against the law on Tuesday, but were unable …

Delhi Students University Protest Caa Jnu Jamia

1 year, 1 month ago

Farmer Protests: Mobile internet back, Singhu and Tikri borders to reopen

Op India

The Haryana government has started to resume the amenities that were snapped due to the farmer protests. Meanwhile, the farmers have once again announced a march to Delhi on 26th February in response to calls from the Bharatiya Kisan Union and Samyukt Kisan Morcha. According to Bharatiya Kisan Union Western Uttar Pradesh president Pawan Khatana, all labourers and farmers will …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Wrestlers' protests: Congress tweets 'missing' Smriti Irani's post; Union Minister's savage response

India TV News

Wrestlers' protests: Union Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani and Congress on Wednesday engaged in a Twitter war. Irani's reply Responding to Congress' 'missing' tweet, Irani said in Hindi- “O divine political creature, I have just left Sirsira village, Vidhan Sabha Salon, Lok Sabha Amethi towards Dhuranpur. NCP takes jibe at Irani Earlier, Nationalist Congress Party leader Supriya Sule …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Emotions high at French protests over Macron’s pension plan

Associated Press

PARIS — Protesters opposing President Emmanuel Macron’s unpopular plan to raise the retirement age to 64 marched again Thursday in cities and towns around France, in a final show of anger before a crucial decision on whether the measure meets constitutional standards. Fabien Villedieu of the Sud-Rail Union said LVMH “could reduce all the holes” in France’s social security system. …

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2 years, 8 months ago

Protests across UK oppose ‘heinous’ Rwanda migrant deportation policy

The Independent

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Campaigners have rallied against the Government’s “heinous” policy to send …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Prophet remarks row: MHA advises police heads of states, UTs to remain ‘alert’

Live Mint

Amid the Prophet Muhammad's controversial remarks row, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs on 10 June the police heads of states and Union Territories to be prepared and alert, citing they may become the target. The MHA issued a statement to all state and Union Territory police following several incidents of violence reported from different parts of the country over …

Mha Prophet States Uts

3 years, 5 months ago

BJP govt using violence to quell protests, farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri still at risk: SKM

India Today

The Samyukta Kisan Morcha on Saturday alleged that the Centre was increasingly resorting to violence to quell the farmers' protests, but assured that the peasants’ movement would continue to remain non-violent. Pointing to the Lakhimpur Kheri incident in Uttar Pradesh, SKM coordination committee convenor Dr Darshan Pal claimed that there is a possibility of further attacks on farmers -- especially …

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4 years, 1 month ago

Envoys visit J&K amid cheers, protests

The Hindu

The J&K government showcased “deepening democracy” to visiting 24 foreign diplomats, who arrived on a two-day tour of the Union Territory on Wednesday amid a spontaneous shutdown in Srinagar and alleged detention of recently elected National Conference district council members in Budgam. Welcomed by women singing traditional Kashmiri songs and showering petals on them, the team of diplomats from different …

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4 years, 2 months ago

Farmers’ protests | Two unions withdraw from agitation citing Republic Day violence

The Hindu

Two farmer unions on Wednesday withdrew from the ongoing agitation on Delhi's borders against the three farm laws, a day after violence broke out in the national capital during the tractor parade. Talking to reporters, Bharatiya Kisan Union president Thakur Bhanu Pratap Singh said he was deeply pained by whatever happened during the tractor parade in the national capital, adding …

Farmers Union

4 years, 3 months ago

Farmer protests: Maharashtra minister threatens to assault Union Minister Raosaheb Danve

Op India

Maharashtra Minister Bacchu Kadu has threatened to assault Union Minister Raosaheb Danve after he said that the farmer protests are being fuelled by Pakistan and China. Now, the situation is such that we’ll have to enter his house & beat him up: Maharashtra Minister Bacchu Kadu on Union Minister Raosaheb Danve’s statement ‘China, Pak behind farmer’s protest’ pic.twitter.com/vPRpDQcJZB — ANI …

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4 years, 3 months ago

Farmers' protests LIVE: Talks have made little progress, say unions

Business Standard

Farmers' protest LIVE updates Day 8: Talks between three union ministers and a representative group of thousands of agitating farmers failed to yield any resolution on Thursday, as the union leaders stuck to their demand for the repeal of new farm laws and even refused the lunch, tea and water offered to them during almost eight-hour-long hectic parleys. Meanwhile, former …

Delhi Farmers Protest Unions Farm Live Talks

4 years, 6 months ago

Assam Tea Garden Union Plans Sept Protests Including 'Massive Human Chain' for Fulfillment of Demands

News 18

The Assam Chah Mazdoor Sangha has called for a series of protests for the fulfillment demands including a raise in the daily wages of workers in the state. ACMS General Secretary Rupesh Gowalla said workers of all tea gardens in Assam will sit for a one hour ‘dharna’ in front of garden offices on September 16. “Tea workers from Dholla …

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4 years, 8 months ago

Farmer organisations demand withdrawal of agri ordinances

The Hindu

Farmer organisations in Punjab and Haryana on Monday staged a “tractor march” to protest against the Centre’s recently promulgated agriculture ordinances and demanded their immediate withdrawal. In Haryana, farmers staged protests under the banner of the Bhartiya Kisan Union in Kurukshetra, Karnal, Yamunangar and Fatehabad districts, while in Punjab protests were largely led by the Bharti Kissan Union and the …

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4 years, 9 months ago

Police unions see their clout crater amid protests, but for how long?

LA Times

In a Black Lives Matter memorial, photographs of Black people killed by police are set up on the front lawn of the Universalist Unitarian Church of Riverside. “Even law enforcement knows they need to get out of their comfort zone and push some reforms.” The large sums of campaign money police unions contribute also is under increasing scrutiny. Verber Salazar …

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5 years, 3 months ago

Amid citizenship law protests, Pranab Mukherjee warns the govt

India TV News

Former President Pranab Mukherjee has sounded a warning shot for the Centre over the ongoing citizenship law protests, saying that Indian voters like their governments to be considerate towards people with different views. The significant remarks by the former Congress leader came during the second edition of Atal Bihari Memorial Lecture organised by the India Foundation in New Delhi on …

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5 years, 3 months ago

Identity as Human Has Been Massacred: Adil Hussain on CAB

The Quint

The Citizenship Amendment Bill seeks to grant citizenship to non-Muslims from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan if they fled their native country due to religious persecution. According to the proposed legislation, members of Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian communities, who have come from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, till 31 December 2014, after facing religious persecution there, will not be …

5 years, 4 months ago

JNU protests: HRD Ministry appoints three-member committee to recommend ways to restore normal functioning of varsity

Firstpost

In the wake of the ongoing protests by the JNU Students’ Union against hostel fee hike, the Human Resource Development Ministry on Monday appointed a three-member committee to recommend ways to restore normal functioning of the varsity In the wake of the ongoing protests by the JNU Students’ Union against hostel fee hike, the Human Resource Development Ministry on Monday …

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6 years, 2 months ago

Citizenship Bill: Himanta Biswa Sarma's 'Jinnah' comment sparks protests across Assam; Modi govt likely to table bill in LS tomorrow

India TV News

Protests broke out in several places in Assam, with agitators stripping themselves in public in Tinsukia, over a recent comment by Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Citizenship Bill even as the Centre is planning to present the proposed legislation in Lok Sabha on Tuesday. A meeting of the Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, cleared the bill …

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6 years, 5 months ago

Daily Bulletin: MJ Akbar calls allegations 'fabricated and baseless', Zika virus toll reaches 60; top stories of the day

Firstpost

Union minister MJ Akbar terms allegations of sexual harassment levelled against him by several women as “false, fabricated and deeply distressing”, Zika virus toll reaches 60 in Rajasthan; and other top stories of the day MJ Akbar denies allegations against him; vows to take legal action: Union minister MJ Akbar on Sunday termed allegations of sexual harassment levelled against him …

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8 years, 10 months ago

Congress, Left funded protests over Rohith Vemula’s death: former SFI student leader

India TV News

Hyderabad: In some startling revelations, a former student leader of the Left-affiliated Students Federation of India at the Hyderabad Central University has claimed that the protests in the aftermath of Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula’s suicide were Dejected over the fact that four months of protests have not yielded any results in terms of justice for Vemula, Raj Kumar Sahu resigned …

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9 years ago

China on strike

CNN

China’s workers have driven the explosive growth of its economy in recent decades. Turning point A 2010 strike at the Nanhai Honda car plant in southern China was a turning point for the country’s labor movement – showing for the first time that a young migrant workforce could stand up and successfully fight for their rights, according to Eli Friedman, …

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Samsung India Workers Union protests suspension of employees, CITU plans massive strike

CITU plans protests at all SIPCOTs as 4th round of Samsung talks fail

‘Maximize chaos.’ UC academic workers authorize strike, alleging rights violated during protests

Student bodies hold protests on campuses in Delhi University and Jamia

Farmer Protests: Mobile internet back, Singhu and Tikri borders to reopen

Wrestlers' protests: Congress tweets 'missing' Smriti Irani's post; Union Minister's savage response

Emotions high at French protests over Macron’s pension plan

Protests across UK oppose ‘heinous’ Rwanda migrant deportation policy

Prophet remarks row: MHA advises police heads of states, UTs to remain ‘alert’

BJP govt using violence to quell protests, farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri still at risk: SKM

Envoys visit J&K amid cheers, protests

Farmers’ protests | Two unions withdraw from agitation citing Republic Day violence

Farmer protests: Maharashtra minister threatens to assault Union Minister Raosaheb Danve

Farmers' protests LIVE: Talks have made little progress, say unions

Assam Tea Garden Union Plans Sept Protests Including 'Massive Human Chain' for Fulfillment of Demands

Farmer organisations demand withdrawal of agri ordinances

Police unions see their clout crater amid protests, but for how long?

Amid citizenship law protests, Pranab Mukherjee warns the govt

Identity as Human Has Been Massacred: Adil Hussain on CAB

JNU protests: HRD Ministry appoints three-member committee to recommend ways to restore normal functioning of varsity

Citizenship Bill: Himanta Biswa Sarma's 'Jinnah' comment sparks protests across Assam; Modi govt likely to table bill in LS tomorrow

Daily Bulletin: MJ Akbar calls allegations 'fabricated and baseless', Zika virus toll reaches 60; top stories of the day

Congress, Left funded protests over Rohith Vemula’s death: former SFI student leader

China on strike