Kerala Labour Movement is initiated by Labour Commission of Kerala Catholic Bishops Council (KCBC) in the context of the publication of “Rarum Novarum” of Pope Leo XIII in 1891 and the subsequent documents of the Church’s Holy magisterium depicting the Catholic Church’s vision and teachings on the Labour and laborers in the world.  The Kerala Catholic Bishop’s Council established Labour Commission in the year 1979. Kerala Labour Movement (KLM) is a civil society organization registered under the Kerala Charitable Societies Registration Act of 1955 in the year 2004 with the register No. ER 620/04 to operationalise its strategies for the effective organisation of the informal workers of Kerala. Now Kerala Labour Movement (KLM) works under the umbrella of Labour Commission of Catholic Bishops Council of Kerala as an effective NGO who caters the developmental needs of the unorganized laborers of the Kerala State. KLM has a central level committee representing the different diocesan KLMs and functions in the dioceses through parish or village level committees, fora of laborers and the self help groups.