Working Class

Fight Modi Govt’s Onslaught on Public Sector

AN extended meeting of the trade unions of Central Public Sector Undertakings (CPSU) was held at BTR Bhavan, New Delhi from August 30 to 31. Around 150 delegates from about 40 CPSUs comprising major sectors like coal, steel, oil and natural gas, power, heavy engineering, telecommunication, electronics, shipping, port & docks and construction, and Bangalore-based PSUs representing around 50 trade union organisations from 14 states participated in the meeting.

 

CITU Seeks Corrective Changes in UPA Govt’s Drug Prices Control Order

CITU general secretary and MP Tapan Sen has sought union chemicals and fertilisers minister Ananth Kumar’s urgent intervention to bring about effective corrective changes to the Drug Prices Control Order, introduced by the Congress-led UPA-II government in 2013. Sen said the UPA government’s deceptive price control order has created gross perversion in the drugs market, severely affecting the common people’s right to access to essential and life-saving drugs at affordable price.

BSNL Employees Protest against Deloitte’s Anti-Workers Recommendations

HUNDREDS of BSNL employees staged a demonstration in front of Bharat Sanchar Bhawan, the corporate office of the state-owned telecom firm in New Delhi, on August 21 expressing their strong protest against the report of Deloitte Consultants recommending retrenchment of 70,000 employees through VRS, recruitment of executives on contract basis, and reducing the number of Secondary Switching Areas (SSAs) from 334 to 167 among others.

 

CITU, Workers' Federation Hail SC Judgement on Coal Block Allocations

THE Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) and the All India Coal Workers Federation (AICWF) have welcomed the Supreme Court judgement declaring all coal block allocations since 1993 illegal on grounds of gross lack of transparency and fairness, exercise of arbitrariness and violation of guidelines, causing huge loss to the public exchequer as well as to the consumers both in industry and the common people.

Ad-hocism in the Decisions to Modify Labour Laws

Beginning with Rajasthan, labour legislations are being modified and it seems to have the blessings of the new dispensation at the centre. The government of India too has announced its decision to amend important legislations and has called for public comments. But ad-hoc changes as planned do little for the working class, while ensuring that employers do not attract the ire of the law. There seems to be little understanding of the historic background of labour legislations in India, and even less about what needs to be done to make them more effective.

 

LABOUR LAW AMENDMENTS: An Onslaught on Workers’ Rights & Livelihood

THE BJP led NDA government at the centre has initiated a hectic move to amend several important labour laws in favour of the employers, soon after coming to power. Several state governments have also initiated such measures. This was apprehended as the corporates who have made huge investment during the elections to see this government installed at the centre would leave no stone unturned to ensure hefty returns on their investment.

 

‘Refrain from Making Unilateral Moves to Amend Labour Laws’

IN a letter to union minister of labour and employment Narendra Singh Tomar, CITU general secretary and Rajya Sabha member Tapan Sen has condemned the government’s unilateral move to amend various labour laws including The Factories Act, The Apprenticeship Act, and The Labour Laws (Exemption from Furnishing Returns & Maintenance of Registers by Certain Establishments) Amendment Bill.

CITU Denounces Anti-labour Amendments In Labour Laws by Rajasthan Govt

The following is the press statement issued by the Centre of Indian Trade Unions on July 26.

THE Centre of Indian Trade Unions condemns the move to bring about anti-labour amendments in Industrial Disputes Act, Factories Act and Contract Labour Regulation & Abolition) Act by the BJP government in Rajasthan on which Amendment Bills have already been introduced in Rajasthan assembly. The CITU calls upon to organise countrywide protest at the earliest against such corporate driven onslaught on working people by the Rajasthan government at the behest of the capitalist class.

Fight the Onslaught on the Lives of People

THE meeting of the general council of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), which concluded just as the direction of the policies of the BJP led NDA government at the centre were unfolding through its railway and union budgets, warned the working class of the ominous signs of escalation of the same policies pursued by the erstwhile Congress led UPA government. These policies led to increasing burdens on the people and the workers and led to the rejection of the Congress and its allies.

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