Working Class Issues

CITU Congratulates People for Historic Success of General Strike

The Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) congratulates the workers, farmers and agricultural workers who made the February 12, 2026, All India General Strike a historic and resounding success. Reports received up to 3:00 PM from across the country indicate that several crore people participated in strike action, demonstrations, picketing and solidarity mobilisations. The strike witnessed massive participation from organised and unorganised sectors, public and private enterprises, multinational companies, scheme workers and rural toilers.

CITU Refutes CJI’s Statement on Trade Unions

The CITU has expressed its deep concern over the most unfortunate and unconstitutional statement made by the Chief Justice of India on 29 January 2026 while hearing the Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed in Penn Thozhilalargal Sangam vs Union of India (W.P.(C) No. 42/2026). Unfortunately, the words of the CJI appeared to resemble those of the advocates of already failed neoliberal policies.

CITU Andaman & Nicobar State Conference Resolves To Fight Anti-Working Class Labour Codes

The two-day 10th Andaman & Nicobar State Conference held at Port Blair (Sri Vijaya Puram) on December 20-21, 2025, decided to join the nation-wide agitation against the four anti-working class labour codes. A resolution in this connection was passed in the Delegate Session of the Conference on 21st December, 2025.     

Class Struggle in the Era of Fragmentation of Production Process & Precariousness of Jobs

Fragmentation and segmentation of the production process and scattering of global production locations have brought before class-oriented trade union movement dimensional challenges. The Global South has become intermediate manufacturing or assembling hubs as these being the global hunting ground for extreme exploitation of labour. But brand value addition is controlled by MNCs of the Global North. Side by side, growing precarity of the job market is used as a tool by the capitalist class to vilify the doctrine of class struggle.  

Working Class gearing up for Biggest Ever General Strike

“The Country will witness an unprecedented participation of not only workers, but of agricultural workers and peasants and other sections of the people on February 12, 2026, in the all India General Strike”, “the working class of the country will not allow their rights won through decades of fierce class battle under colonial rule and after, to be taken away by the ruling corporate communal nexus” declared the National Convention of Wworkers held on January 9, 2026.

Gig Economy - A Challenge to Trade Union Movement

A SURVEY by the CITU’s Telangana state unit has revealed the problems and precariousness of gig workers who have been growing rapidly in numbers. Gig workers, including those who work for platforms such as Uber, Ola, Zomato, Blinkit and Porter, do not have minimum security and are subjected to severe exploitation. In addition to those who depend completely on ‘gig’ work, the number of those who work part time on these platforms is also increasing. Young women are also entering this field. There are 8-10 lakh gig workers in Telangana.

CITU 18th Conference calls for: “Converting the Crisis to Heightened Consciousness for Social Change”

THE 18th Conference of CITU was held at Visakhapatnam, the Port City of Andhra Pradesh from December 31, 2025 to January 4, 2026. This triennial session, the apex body of CITU, was preceded by the state conferences that elected the 1307 delegates to the all-India Conference from 25 States/UTs and the Centre. Fraternal delegates from AIKS, AIAWU and middle-class organisations attended the Conference. Women delegates were 24 per cent, slightly better than last time, though the target was 28 per cent.

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