On 21st November, 2025 the Union Government issued notifications bringing into force four Labour Codes - the Code on Wages, 2019, the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020,(OSH Code) the Social Security Code, 2020; and the Industrial Relations Code, 2020 - that had been passed between 2019 and 2021. The four Labour Codes, presented as an anti-colonial “labour reform”, essentially constitute a reorientation of the State’s role in mediating class relations in the country.

Hundreds of mine workers took to the streets in Bellary in a massive protest organized by Bellary Zilla Gani Karmikara Sangha affiliated to the AICCTU, demanding immediate action from the government to provide housing, re-employment, and full rehabilitation. The protest began with a rally from Moti Circle and culminated in the submission of a memorandum to the Deputy Commissioner. The Deputy Commissioner has assured the protesting workers that a meeting would be called to discuss the issue of retrenched mine workers. 

Protection for Workers in the Summer

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has projected a 48% probability that global temperatures will surpass 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels in at least one year between 2022 and 2026, with this likelihood rising to 66% for the period 2023-2027. Additionally, it has warned that 2025 is expected to be among the three hottest years on record.

According to the Periodic Labour Force Survey 2017–18 carried out by the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO), of the 92 million workers working in the formal sector - more than half of them are employed as informal workers. These workers are variously termed as contract temporary, casual or daily wage workers. Despite working for decades, they are forced to work with no security of tenure, with employers denying them the most basic employer- employee relationship rights.
 

On 13^th December, 2022, 155 workers were arbitrarily terminated from employment by Yazaki India Pvt Ltd.,

The fascist project of the BJP which constitutes a concerted effort to undermine democratic institutions and to promote Hindutva nationalism on the one hand, also engages in overt class warfare of the ruling class against the working class as one of its defining features.