Mangalore : Hundreds of workers  including representatives of various organizations took part in a protest held under the auspices of the CITU in front of DC office in Mangalore on September 20, Friday. A huge jatha amid heavy rains was also taken out. Speaking on the occasion, senior CITU leader K Madhava said the governments […]

Bangalore: Eight persons were injured when the centring of a five-storey under construction building caved in at Someshwaranagar in the city on Monday. Police, quoting labourers on the spot, said three others were believed to have been “trapped” in the basement. Police and fire-brigade rushed to the spot to undertake rescue operations. The injured were […]

Wardha, Maharashtra : More than 20 people, mostly labourers,  are missing and nine bodies have been recovered so far after a boat was smashed into two pieces when it hit a Hanuman statue installed in the middle of Vana river near Wardha on Thursday evening. Nearly 35 to 40 labourers were saved from drowing and […]

Mangalore :  Landslide occurred in Kunjathbail have damaged a newly constructed house belonging to the labourers on Tuesday June 11, morning. The house belonged to Narayan Salian was constructed beside the small hill near Vidya Jyothi School at Jyothinagar, Kunjathbail. Since the house construction was in the final stage, the family of Narayan had settled […]

Mangalore:  Members of the KMF Dairy Contract Labourers Association affiliated to the Bharatiya Mazdur Sangha (BMS) protested in front of the MF office on November 7, Wednesday demanding timely payment of their salary. Speaking on the occasion, Vishwanath Shetty, President of BMS said the workers were not only getting low wages but were not paid […]

Mangalore : If the district administration has banned manual scavenging, it is still in vogue in Mangalore. On November 6, Tuesday two labourers were seen cleaning a manhole manually in the Kankanady area of Mangalore for as long as one hour. Manual scavenging is banned under the Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry […]

Bantwal: In a tragic incident reported from Kesottu in Pilimogaru village in Bantwal, two labourers engaged in the vented dam works at Kesottu met a watery grave due to flash floods following heavy rains in the area on June 28, Thursday. The labourers who lost their lives in the tragedy are Sumathi Shetty (42) and […]

Udupi :  In a tragic incident reported from Sooda-Nandalike, two women labourers lost their lives  in a blast  near a quarry  on June 19, Tuesday. The incident took place  at around 3.30 pm in the quarry  run by Joy Crusher Stones. The mishap occurred in a shed where explosives were placed, when the two labourers […]

CITU affiliate labour Unions have May Day procession and a rally at Town Hall
Socialistic or people’s spontancous revolts talking place in several countries of the world, such as Egypt, Libya and France, are due to the discomfort of labourers and poor sections of society, who are victimised by capitalistic ambitions of accumulating Wealth, at the expense of working classes and poorer masses.

The ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protests in America, and movements against ‘state bankruptcy’ in Greece, Mexico, Kazhakhstan, Portugal and South Africa, are examples of workers’ revolutions against capitalist greed.

Such an active movement is essential in India these days, to bridal unchecked capitalist tendencies that ignore labour as part of economy, observed B. Madhava of Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) on May Day, in a city gathering of workers
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A few (3) crore labouress had participated in a nationwide strike recently, of all India Trade Unions, demanding their basic rights.

He criticised the state cabinet decision, to raise working hours of labourers from 8 to 10, while providing ‘bail-out’ packages for losing banks and private companies during a global recession, which was an offspring of capitalism.

The May Day was arranged in Town Hall, with a rally from Ambedkar Circle, Balmatta.

Bangalore: It is Workers Day all over the world, when red flowers bloom on roadside trees, and workers move in procession, to express their joyous ful in a careless way. Law minister Suresh Kumar took a Sweeper in hand and swept the road on May Day, saying workers like farmers are the backbone of the […]