CITU for Intensifying the Class Struggles to push back Corporate Regime

“THIS struggle by the working class against the anti-worker Labour Codes and anti-national privatisation will complement the struggle of the peasants against the anti-farmers, Farm Acts and the Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2020. These simultaneous fronts of struggles, by the peasants and workers, alone, can push back the pro-corporate neoliberal regime. Thus, it is of utmost importance for the working class to intensify the struggles on its specific demands along with the demand to repeal the Farm Acts”.

Demand to Repeal Labour Codes Grows Louder

A “NATIONAL PROTEST DAY” was observed at multiple workplaces across the country on December 30, primarily to say that the “working class will not let the peasantry fail.”The protest day, called for by the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), saw demonstrations by workers – both, organised and unorganised – employed in various sectors at their places of employment.

AILU Condemns Police Excess and Intimidation

ALL India Lawyers Union condemned the Delhi police for conducting a raid at the house of Mohammed Pracha, advocate who is representing many accused in Delhi riots conspiracy case; many of the victims of the riots are framed as accused.The AILU said that this is a violation of fundamental rights, lawyer's as well as of clients, under the guise of investigation and search warrant.The AILU maintained that search for “incriminating documents comprising false complaint and metadata of outbox of Email account which was used to send incriminating documents” referred to in the search warrant does n

On Social Security Code Draft Rules

THE union ministry of labour and employment released draft rules for the Code on Social Security, 2020 on November 13 “for information of all persons likely to be affected thereby”, unscrupulously avoiding the route of tripartite consultation with the stakeholders, the trade unions in particular. The Modi government has been working overtime to roll out labour law codification at the earliest so as to show its hyper-loyalty to the corporates.

March towards General Strike on Nov 26 All Support to Farmers’ Agitation on Nov 26-27

Communiqué of Joint Platform of Central Trade Unions and Sectoral Federations and Associations, issued on November 17THE meeting of the joint platform of central trade unions (CTUs) and sectoral independent federations and associations held online on November 16, 2020, expressed satisfaction over the tremendous response being received from the workers and the people at large throughout the country to the ongoing campaign for the countrywide general strike on November 26, 2020.

EEFI Lauds UP Electricity Employees for Fighting Privatisation

THE Electricity Employees Federation of India (EEFI), in a statement issued on October 7, has conveyed warm greetings to all the participants and constituent organisations of Vidyut Karmachari Sanjukta Sangharsha Samity (VKSSS), UP, for their heroic struggle to oppose the move of Uttar Pradesh government to privatise electricity distribution. Lauding the efforts of VKSSS, it said that the unity of the electricity employees made them victorious and that they have set an example before the working class of our country.

Attempts to Enslave Workers Shall Not Pass: Working Class Warns Modi Led BJP Govt

THE joint platform of central trade unions and independent industrial federations called for countrywide protests on September 23, 2020. This was on the immediate lockdown related demands of workers and toiling people, opposing the labour codes that curtail the existing rights and benefits of the workers and also the privatisation drive of the BJP led government.Workers across the country responded in a big way to this call. Their participation in the demonstrations was even larger than that on the all India Protest Day on August 9, 2020, which was observed with the slogan ‘Save India’.

BPCL Strike A Pointer to Growing Resistance against BJP: CITU

THE Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) congratulated the workers of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) for two days strike action on September 7-8, against the privatisation of BPCL and the BJP government and called it a pointer to growing resistance against the BJP government.Tapan Sen, general secretary of CITU noted that BPCL was formed by taking over a multinational company through an Act of Parliament in 1976.

CTU’s Denounce Forced Premature Retirement

THE joint platform of central trade unions and sectoral federations/associations on August 31, unanimously denounced the renewed move of the central government to unilaterally and on absolutely arbitrary grounds, impose conditions for forced premature retirement on its employees.The office memorandum issued by the ministry of personnel, public grievances and pensions, department of personnel and training on August 28 arms the government with powers to give any government employee marching orders after completing 30 years of service or reaching 50/55 years of age or older, said the union lea

CTUs Condemn Proposal to Privatise More Airports and Sale of Stake in IRCTC

Below we publish the statement issued by the Central Trade Unions – INTUC, AITUC, HMS, CITU, AIUTUC, TUCC, SEWA, AICCTU, LPF and UTUC – on August 25AFTER the announcement on August 18, 2020, by the civil aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri that his ministry would place a proposal for further privatisation of airports before the union cabinet, the cabinet rubber stamped the proposal for leasing out three airports – Jaipur, Guwahati and Thiruvananthapuram – through public private partnership (PPP), on August 19.

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