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AIFAWH - 25 years of Struggles & Achievements

THE All India Federation of Anganwadi Workers and Helpers (AIFAWH) came into being on January 6, 1991 in its first national conference held in Udaipur in Rajasthan.

The past twenty five years have been years of struggles and sacrifices for the AIFAWH and all its affiliates in different states, which played a pioneering role in mobilising lakhs of anganwadi employees in both united and independent struggles to improve the conditions of anganwadi employees and prevent ICDS from being handed over to private interests.

AIFAWH Organises National Seminar on Malnutrition in India & the ICDS as ‘Mission’

INDIA, the ‘Republic of Hunger’, has gone from bad to worse in hunger, and the fight to save the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) Scheme, which provides supplementary nutrition to nearly 10 crore beneficiaries is very important for the country’s future, said Prof. Utsa Patnaik. In a very lucid manner, she explained the plight of the people under the neo-liberal policies to the audience who were mainly the anganwadi union leaders from different states. She said that their work in the anganwadis and their fight in the union is important for the future of the country.

Massive Dharnas by BSNL Employees

THOUSANDS of BSNL employees sat on three-day dharnas in front of their offices/exchanges, demanding immediate action to provide mobile equipment, broadband modem and cables as well as installation of BTS/Towers to enable the employees to provide better services to the customers. The call for organising three-day dharnas from January 6 to January 8 was given by joint forum of all BSNL unions and associations. In New Delhi, the dharna was organised in front of the BSNL Corporate office, with participation of more than 300 employees.

CITU Extends Support & Calls for Countrywide Solidarity Action

THE workers of Tamilnadu State Transport Corporation have gone on indefinite strike from December 28, 2014 demanding revision of wage agreement which has fallen long overdue. All the unions in the state transport sector except one aligned to ruling party in the state have unitedly given the call for strike. The unions have been pursuing for wage revision since last six months but the state government arrogantly refused to even commence meaningful and serious negotiation. Such a situation compelled the unions to go in for indefinite strike.

Historic Struggle of Transport workers Tamilnadu Stopped and then Drived

"...THEY (the poor) have often worked not ten but twenty hours a day. Not that all the poor have rigidly worked twenty hours, but that the worth of the labour of twenty hours now, in food and clothing, is equivalent to the worth of ten hours then. And because twenty hours’ labour cannot, from the nature of the human frame, be exacted from those who before performed ten, the aged and the sickly are compelled either to work or starve. They eat less bread, wear worse clothes, are more ignorant, immoral, miserable, and desperate.

AICWF Calls Workers’ Strike in Coal Industry

THE coal workers’ federation affiliated to CITU has called one-day strike in the coal industry on January 13, demanding withdrawal of the Coal Mines (Special provision) Act which has been brought through the Ordinance route bypassing suggestions of the central trade unions. The CITU-affiliated All India Coal Workers’ Federation (AICWF) has also extended its support to the five-day strike call by four national federations affiliated to INTUC, BMS, AITUC and HMS, commencing January 6.

All India Loco Running Staff Association’s 20th All India Conference Held

ALL India Loco Running Staff Association’s 20th All India Conference was held in Chithorgarh of Rajasthan from November 15 to 16. The Conference was organised at a railway garden near Chithorgarh station in Rathlam Division of Western Railway. More than 3,000 loco running staff members and their families from all over the country assembled at the venue. The meet was welcomed by Badri Lal Jat and presided over by L Mony and N B Dutta.

TAMIL NADU: After Nokia, now it is Foxconn

NARENDRA Modi’s ‘Make in India’ is now turning into ‘Pack from India’.

Yes. After Nokia, now it is Foxconn.

FIH India Private Limited, formerly known as Foxconn India Limited, a global company and subsidiary of Hon Hai Group based in Taiwan, has made it official that it will suspend production on December 24 after finishing off residual inventory in the SEZ at Sriperumbudur near Chennai. Its action comes as a sequel to Nokia's decision to stop production at its Sriperumbudur factory.

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