Central Trade Unions led protests in Krishnagiri courting arrests
Central trade unions in India organized nationwide protests, including a 'prison filling' movement in Krishnagiri, to oppose government economic and labor policies. Protesters demanded higher wages, the revocation of new labor codes, and an end to the privatization of public sector units.
Why it matters
These protests reflect significant labor unrest and dissatisfaction with the current administration's economic reforms.
The prison filling movement, led collectively by all central trade unions of the opposition parties, called attention to the ‘failed’ economic, agricultural, and labour policies of the BJP-led Union government. The protest witnessed demonstrators courting arrests in Krishnagiri on Monday (August 10, 2026).
The nationwide protests was called jointly by all Central Trade Unions, including the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), LPF, CITU, AITUC, and INTUC, foregrounding the demand for the immediate revocation of the four new labour codes that have come to replace the labour legislations, and other agricultural and economic grievances.
The protesters demanded basic minimum support price for agricultural produce, immediate halt to the privatisation of the power sector, and raising the minimum wages to ₹42,000.
They also sought for increasing the number of wage days to 200 under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, and a guaranteed daily wages of ₹700 under the programme.
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