Anganwadi Workers Protest Action

LAKHS of workers in states of Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Kerala, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Punjab, Pondicherry, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and West Bengal held demonstrations on September 5 at district and block level and gave memorandum to the minister for WCD, government of India. In Haryana and Jharkhand, the anganwadi workers and helpers were on strike against the state governments.

Oppose Bank Mergers

THE BANK Employees Federation of India(BEFI) has strongly condemned the decision of the union government to merge 10 public sector banks(PSBs) into four.

PSBs Merger Facilitates Easy Siphoning Off Public Money to Corporates: CITU

THE Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), in a statement issued on September 1, has denounced the decision of central government to merge 10 public sector banks into four entities, thereby reducing the number of public sector banks (PSB) to 12. It said that the move was utterly destructive.

BSNLEU Demands Disbursement of August Salary

BSNL Employees Union has issued the following statement on September 2

Desperate to Privatise Air India

THE CENTRE of Indian Trade Unions(CITU) denounces desperate move of the BJP government to completely privatise the national carrier, Air India by way of divesting its entire shareholding in favour of a chosen single buyer in the “shortest possible time available”, obviously this is going to be a distress sale.

Destructive Decisions of the Government

The following is the statement issued by the CITU on August 29

THE BJP government at the centre has taken some destructive decisions in the recent past. The RBI was forced to transfer of Rs 1.76 lakh crore from its reserves. This was done by the obliging team of bureaucrats put at the helm of RBI Board.

Defence Strike Deferred

THE strike of the defence employees has been deferred/postponed by the three major unions and Confederation of Defence Recognised Association (CDRA) that were spearheading it. On August 23, a meeting with secretary, defence production, was held in which this decision was taken to postpone the strike on the assurance given by the government through the secretary. The secretary apprised the union leadership that ‘no final decision’ has been taken to privatise or corporatise the ordnance factories in the country.

Central Trade Unions Congratulate Defense Employees

THE Central Trade Unions (CTUs) – INTUC, AITUC, HMS, CITU, AIUTUC, TUCC, SEWA, AICCTU, LPF, UTUC, in a statement issued on August 23, have congratulated the defense employees for the successful strike from August 20 in all the industrial, non-industrial (clerical, office staff) defense production units. Junior officers, charge hands have walked out of 41 ordnance factories (OF). The strike was against the Modi government’s plans to corporatise and then to privatise the ordnance factories. This move of the government will put national security at risk and hence is anti-national.

Defence Employees’ Historic Strike

82,000 defence employees working in the 41 ordnance factories of our country started one month strike on August 20. More than 40,000 contract workers have also joined the strike. The strike started as scheduled at 6 o’clock in the morning on August 20, 2019, despite the threats by the government. The defence employees have only one demand – ‘Withdraw the unilateral decision taken to corporatise the ordnance factories in violation of the agreement and assurances given by the government of India’.

‘We are Workers. We Build the Nation. We Protect the Nation. We Have Been. We Always Will’

THIS was the slogan of the CITU general council that was held in Hassan in Karnataka on August 7-10, 2019. The general council called upon all its affiliated unions and committees to display this slogan prominently during the night long ‘jagaran’ that will be held on the night of August 14, on the eve of the Independence Day.

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