All India Central Council of Trade Unions

All India Central Council of Trade Unions, a central trade union federation in India. AICCTU is politically attached to Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation. According to provisional statistics from the Ministry of Labour, AICCTU had a membership of 639,962 in 2002.

AICCTU DOCUMENT Adopted by 9th National Conference Patna, Bihar 4-6 May, 2015

Foreword All India Central Council of Trade Unions (AICCTU) held its 9th National Conference at Patna, the capital of Bihar state from 4-6 May 2015. Patna, on this occasion, was rechristened Yogeshwar Gope Nagar (one of the tallest figures and most popular leader of state government employees’ movement and former President of AICCTU). The main areas of the city were impressively decorated with red flags, festoons and banners, and gates were erected on main roads. The conference began on 4th May with an impressive “March for Workers’ and Peasants’ Rights” in the scorching sun, culminating in a public meeting in which thousands of workers and peasants participated. The march was led by AICCTU leaders Swapan Mukherjee and S. Kumarasamy and foreign guests including comrades Nikolaos Theodorakis (Greece), representative of WFTU (World Federation of Trade Unions); Kamlesh Jha and Kul Bahadur Khatri from GEFONT (General Federation of Nepalese Trade Unions); Lalbahadur Pakhrin and Ramdev Lal Das from CONEP (Confederation of Nepalese Professionals) and Tapan Datta from BTUC (Bangladesh Trade Union Centre) and leaders of Maruti Suzuki workers. The public meeting was addressed by comrades Dipankar Bhattacharya, General Secretary, CPI (ML); Swapan Mukherjee, outgoing General Secretary and presently Vice-president, AICCTU; Dhirendra Jha, General Secretary, All India Agricultural and Rural Labour Association (AIARLA); Rajaram Singh, General Secretary, All India Kisan Mahasabha (AIKMS)- a peasant organization and Shashi Yadav, Vice-president, AICCTU and Secretary, All India Progressive Women Association (AIPWA). Comrade R.N. Thakur, Bihar state General Secretary, AICCTU delivered thanks-giving speech. The meeting was conducted by comrade Ram Bali Prasad, Secretary, AICCTU. Thereafter, the Delegate session of the conference commenced with hoisting of red flag by veteran leader comrade Shyamlal Prasad, and floral tributes were paid by delegates to the martyrs’ column. Conference was held in Rabindra Bhavan, rechristened Shah Chand auditorium (a veteran CPI-ML leader from Arwal, Bihar who was in jail for last 13 years under TADA on fabricated charges and died in jail). The Stage was named after martyr Gangram Koul, a popular tea garden workers’ leader from Assam and CWC member of AICCTU. The conference paid condolences to the victims of the devastating quake in Nepal and India and observed 2-minute silence in the memory of martyred and departed comrades. Then, AICCTU General Secretary Swapan Mukherjee on behalf of outgoing committee placed the report before the conference. The second day of the conference started with the Open session in which Shokila Munda, wife of Gangaram Koul and Jamila Khatun, wife of Shah Chand were felicitated along with foreign guests and leaders of central trade unions from India and leaders of Maruti workers. This session began with a welcome address by comrade S. Kumarasamy, AICCTU President, after which the session was addressed by Nikolaos Theodorakis from WFTU, AK Padmanabhan (CITU President), Shivgopal Mishra (AIRF General Secretary), D.L. Sachdeva (AITUC Secretary), Abani Roy (UTUC leader), Gautam Mody (NTUI General Secretary) and representatives from AIUTUC, TUCC and HMS. Several fraternal international trade union organizations which could not participate, sent their Solidarity Messages, namely: PAME (All Workers Militant Front), Greece; VGCL (Vietnam General Confederation of Labour); ANTUF (All Nepal Trade Union Federation); RWPB (Revolutionary Workers’ Party of Bangladesh); APFUTU (All Pakistan Federation of United Trade Unions); JRU (the Japan Confederation of Railway Workers’ Unions); GUPW (General Union of Palestine Workers); South Asia Solidarity Group, U.K; Justice for Domestic Workers, UK and IWGB (Independent Workers Union of Great Britain). The Delegate session resumed in the second half of 5th May and continued till 6th May evening. This session was addressed by comrades Kamlesh Jha, national executive member of GEFONT, Lal Bahadur Pakhrin, Vice-president and Chief of Int. Department, CONEP and Tapan Datta, Vice-president, BTUC. Comrade Rajpal, leader of Maruti workers narrated the entire incident of repression on Maruti workers and their determined struggle, which was highly inspiring for the delegates. Around 600 Delegates and Observers participated in the conference representing workers of various sectors from the country like construction, contractual workers, honorarium like ASHA, Anganwadi and Mid-day meal workers, as well as from organized sectors like Railways, Steel, Coal, Tea estates, Jute, Transport, and Government departments and also from private sector. After summing up of discussions by comrade Swapan Mukherjee, the report was passed unanimously with inclusion of several suggestions. In the end, the conference elected a 195-member national council, a 66-member central working committee and 39 central office bearer. Comrades S. Kumarasamy and Rajiv Dimri were elected President and General Secretary respectively. The conference adopted several Resolutions, including, extending all support and cooperation to the quake-hit people of Nepal and India and contribute financially for the relief work, and extending greetings of solidarity to the WFTU on its 70th anniversary. The conference concluded with singing of the “International” and resolve for powerful assertion of the working class movement in the country against corporate-communal takeover under Modi govt. and getting prepared for the upcoming battle.

Presidential Address Comrades, Eduardo Galeano, the author of Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of Pillage of the Continent wrote: “Reality is not destiny; it is a challenge. We are not doomed to accept it as it is.” The people and countries the world over are challenging and trying to change the cruel reality imposed by the neo-liberal agenda of finance capital. Following the pink wave in Latin America, it is now the turn of Europe. ‘Regime Change’ took place in the opposite direction in Greece. Spanish people are demanding food, job and roof with dignity and chanting ‘tick-tock tick-tock’ to indicate that the days of the austerity regime are numbered. The Europe of the old and the new are witnessing people’s struggles against austerity measures and demanding pro-people change. The pro people anti-imperialist march of Latin America is continuing. USA is coming to terms with Cuba. A few years back, in the US, indebtedness became the precondition not just for material improvement in the quality of life, but for the basic requirements of life. Financiers sought to wrap debt around every possible asset and income stream. Now 50 million people in the US carry a student debt burden. A part of the energy generated by the 99% vs 1% Occupy Movement was channelized into the 15 dollars per hour minimum wages movement which spread across the length and breadth of USA. Europe witnessed movements for minimum wages and for scaling down inequalities in incomes. In Asia, it is a welcome relief, that Indonesia which saw the world’s worst massacre of communists and their sympathisers a few decades ago, is now seeing millions marching in the streets of Jakarta and other cities with the demand for minimum wages. Though China is regularly increasing minimum wages, it has seen numerous wildcat strikes in 2014 and 2015 on wages and service conditions. Finance capital is forcing Greece to make big cuts in pensions, public employment and social spending and attempting to make Greece an example of the fate of debtor countries that choose to resist austerity measures; but the people of Greece are determined to foil this conspiracy. The world economic order is also seeing a shift. China, in addition to its efforts on BRICS, the Silk Road initiative, and Shanghai Co-operation has come up with an Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). In addition to its start-up capital of 50 billion dollars it has promised to pump in another 50 billion dollars. US allies like South Korea, Australia, UK, France, Italy, Switzerland, Luxemburg and Germany have lined up in the queue to join the AIIB initiative. The US was barely able to mask its rage when it said, “We are wary about a trend towards constant accommodation of China which is not the best way of containing a rising power.” The US led imperialist ‘war on terror’ has created the Frankenstein’s monsters of Taliban, Al Quaeda and the ISIS. People are fleeing Syria and Libya. 3,500 people met their watery graves which put an end to their dreams and lives in the Mediterranean Sea in 2014. The death toll is 1,500 till now in 2015. Europe should transcend its obsession with internal recession and boldly face its xenophobic fringes, and reach out to the boat people. Trans border disasters like tsunami, floods and earth quake and the biggest disaster of them all, imperialism, have brought to the fore, the urgency for South Asian solidarity in confronting these disasters. The US led neo-liberal order with its disastrous trajectory of severe economic crisis, permanent global war, growing ecological disaster and the spiral of terrorism and imperialist intervention are confronted by the struggle between labour and capital, manifested in mass resistance and popular protests across the world and the efforts of countries to challenge the dictatorship of finance capital. Back home, the Modi government is finding the going tough, as it completes its one year of rule on May 26. People are not willing to buy its argument that development has to be measured by some numbers in the GDP growth rate. Modi is trying to project India as a fast moving lion on the prowl rather than as a slow moving elephant. ‘Make in India’ is nothing but inviting capital to loot and plunder the natural and human resources of our beloved country. It is an attack on land and labour rights. It is an attack on food security. It is nothing but accumulation by dispossession. It is true that the neo-liberal agenda has been in existence for the past few decades. But the Modi government represents a quantitative and qualitative change in pursuit of this agenda. It has the temerity to ask peasants who own less than 5 acres to quit agriculture; it asks the middle classes to give up subsidies and not to expect anything from the government. It wants to do away with the existing provisions of consent of 80% of the people in the gram sabha and social impact assessment before land acquisition. This government is active in the business of dismantling and demolition. The very forces who demolished Babri Masjid are now demolishing the public sector, the planning commission and the collective bargaining processes and institutions. It is weakening the railways, the defence and the finance sectors of the country. It has launched a veritable war on labour rights by dismantling the existing labour laws and by bringing in new anti-labour legislations. ‘Make in India’ is also opening up defence production to the domestic and international corporate sector. Anil Ambani stated that Modi lamented the fact that India is not even making tear gas on its own. Neither of them need shed any tears on this score anymore as it will be taken care of by corporate India very soon. Anil Ambani has given a war cry against the three Cs - CBI, CVC and the CAG – a pointer to the future direction of unregulated capitalist plunder. While the Modi government goes on an arms/armaments buying spree from the US and Israel, and signed an agreement with France to buy 36 Rafaele fighter planes, it is making a mockery of its own ‘Make in India’ slogan. Raghuram Rajan and the financial wizard Arvind Subramanian are outdoing each other in lashing out against the financial sector. Arvind Subramanian stated that Bank Nationalisation is a millstone around the neck of the Indian economy. For Raghuram Rajan, “Undoing this legacy may turn out to be one of the most crucial tasks for the RBI.” Since labour is a subject in the concurrent list of the constitution and since state governments are vying with each other to woo investments, Modi government is launching an attack on labour laws in collusion with the state governments. Rajasthan is the leader in the pack. It has amended the Trade Unions Act, Industrial Disputes Act, Contract Labour (Abolition and Regulation) Act and the Factories Act. The central government, by introducing the Small Factories Bill has exempted 14 labour laws by one stroke for factories employing less than 40 workers. The amended Apprentices Act is another example of the government’s attempt to do away with regular permanent employment. There is a vicious attack on democracy. When Modi asked the Supreme Court not to yield to the pressures of five star activists, it was only a veiled pressure on the Supreme Court to fall in line with the wishes of the government in matters such as denying bail to Teesta Setalvad and going slow on corporate scams. The Gujarat government’s Control of Terrorism and Organised Crimes Bill is an updated version of TADA, POTA and MCOCA. It provides for detention for 180 days without any charges, immunity from prosecution for anything done in good faith and with intentions to do it in pursuance of the Act. It makes confessions before the police admissible. There is a systematic attack on minorities. The atmosphere vitiated by the Hindutva forces gives an impetus to attacks on dalits and women. The othering and demonising of Islam and the witch hunt of Muslims are some effective communal tools. Rabid communalism is also utilised to drive a wedge in the fighting unity of the masses. The onward march of corporate communal fascist forces is to be stopped in its tracks. The emerging situation is full of possibilities for fighting forces. Common masses have started seeing this government as Company Raj and as a government of Ambanis Adanis and America. Its promises of ‘acche din’ (good days) and return of black money have turned out to be cruel jokes on the Indian people. BJP was given a big thrashing in Delhi elections. The coal workers, the bank employees and the BSNL employees have carried out successful strikes. The honorarium and contract employees are rising up in struggles throughout the country. These are reflections of the fighting mood of the working people. But we also find a decline in the electoral performance of the left forces. There is also a disconnect between the left and the young emerging India, with some exceptions of course. The modern world has created unimaginable wealth. Technology makes it easier for everyone to see the wealth that is the result of socialised production. Needs and wants are social in nature. People aspire for a better life. The aspirations are multi-dimensional. Trade unions have to play a social role. They have to be democratised. Workers have to be politicised. Capitalist restructuring has brought a change in the composition of the working class. This has posed new challenge and the trade union movement has to do a lot to rise up to the occasion. Fresh ideas and new initiatives to break the narrowness of the TU movement are absolutely necessary. New industrial zones, belts are to be concentrated upon and new categories of workers are to be organised. We have to attract and nurture a big contingent of young activist cadres and leaders. Area level work with a social dimension has to be pursued with consistency and commitment to reach out to the unorganised workers. The February 20, 21 2013 All India Strike by the working class was a contributing factor to the defeat of UPA government. The time is now ripe for an all India strike action on the part of the working class. AICCTU will definitely move in this direction. It is hoping that the other central trade unions will also be thinking on similar lines. The working class should reach out to the peasantry and the democratic forces. AICCTU which is part of All India People’s Forum, in its 9th conference is advancing the slogan, “Call Of Every Village And Town, Company Raj Down Down!” From the midst of all the destruction and dismantling, we will have to build a live dynamic responsive proactive working class movement. Let me conclude with the words of Galeano, “In the history of humankind, every act of destruction meets its response, sooner or later in an act of creation.”

General Secretary Report International Situation The grave crisis of capitalism continues, which with great intensity is spreading to Euro Zone. The crisis, which is being passed on to the shoulders of working people under the garb of ‘austerity measures’ in the form of curtailing the wages, social security, rights and livelihood, has acted as a trigger to unleash massive movements spreading from Latin America to Euro Zone. Greece is the first example where the people rejecting the previous pro-austerity governments voted for SYRIZA, which was leading popular anti-austerity movement along with other left forces. In Spain, lakhs of people are coming out on the streets with the slogan of food, job and a roof with dignity, and PODEMOS (We can), which is leading this popular movement, is gaining in the polls. Portugal, Italy, Belgium, Germany, France - in entire Europe- popular movement and upsurge is being witnessed against the austerity measures and on the issues of minimum wages, pension, employment and social welfare including housing. In US, the 15 dollars per hour as minimum wage has emerged as the most popular demand of working class. In Minnesota, the socialists have made electoral headway by championing the issue of minimum wage. The issues of minimum wage and rising income disparity have become the central issues in popular mind set. The Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) has declared ‘ending the austerity measures’ as a pre-condition for entering into post-election agreement in the coming UK elections. The only country which shows rise in minimum wages and some reduction in wage disparity is China, which has not fallen in line with the arguments of austerity measures to deal with the crisis. Rather, it went for increasing the purchasing power of people by increasing the wages at the rate of 13% per year between 2011-‘15. The US-led intervention in West Asia and its politics of ‘divide and rule’ has created Frankenstein in the form of IS. US is continuing with its dirty game through its stooges like Saudi Arabia in South Yemen, which is facing large scale destruction and blood bath. Its other stooge Israel is threatening the lives and livelihood of Palestinians and escalating the tension by targeting Iran. In the US, Africa and Europe, a wave of violence and hatred is being spread particularly targeting Muslims and immigrants. In the US, racial violence against blacks particularly attacks by state machinery has escalated, against which massive protests are going on throughout this country. This situation calls for further strengthening the international solidarity of the ongoing working peoples’ movements and forging unity with the forces fighting against US Imperialism and its stooges. In our neighbourhood of South Asia, we must champion the cause of regional cooperation and friendship against war mongering and tension. We must develop strong solidarity movement of working class against the neo-liberal policies being actively pursued by all the governments in this region. We must develop united actions against the intervention of US-led imperialist forces in the region and call for easier and smoother movement in the region to develop and strengthen the people to people relations.

National Situation For the first time in independent India, the BJP has come to the power at Centre with complete majority. It is going to complete its one year this May, when our conference is being held. Modi’s high profile ‘Ache Din’ (good times) campaign created expectations which are gradually getting evaporated. The first jolt Modi government received was in Delhi Assembly elections, where BJP was reduced to just 3 MLAs in 70 member house. But it is the Modi government’s Land Acquisition Bill, giving free hand to corporates for loot of farm land, which has acted as a trigger to unleash nation-wide protests against the government’s pro-corporate policies popularly perceived as Company Raj. Although Modi government’s Coal and Insurance Bills for privatization and denationalization of Coal sector and further increasing foreign investment in Insurance sector have met with stiff resistance and strikes by workers and employees of these sectors including two days historic coal strike, the government has been able to get both bills passed in Rajya Sabha too with the support of Congress and various regional parties. Modi government’s Land Acquisition Bill coupled with unseasonal rains in Northern and Western India, fall in the prices of agro products, rising unemployment and fall in wages in rural areas due to cut in MGNREGA are giving rise to serious agrarian unrest. Peasant suicides are occurring every day whereas Mukesh Ambani’s net profit is rising, with a record increase to the tune of Rs. 6381 crores in the quarter of Jan-March 2015. It appears that the benefit of reduction in fuel prices is passed on to Ambani and not to the common people. On the other hand, the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana, which is being projected as unique scheme of financial inclusion, has turned out to be a fraud on the common, poor people with only 28% of ‘zero balance’ accounts being active. Mr. Modi, in his costly attires spending Rs. 333 crores for foreign jaunts accompanied by notorious Gautam Adani, has come to be symbolized as a man of corporate and rich, and that the ‘ache din’ has come for all the looters and land grabbers in the country. After the takeover by Modi government, there is great escalation in the minority bashing in the country with attacks on their religious places, raising ‘love jihad’, ‘beef ban’ and even the demand of scrapping the voting rights of minorities. In several places, communal attacks and plunder has taken place with the active connivance of state machinery. So, an atmosphere of fear, hatred is being created and RSS like organization is working overtime to create communal division among working people. The Modi rule, which has also come to be known as ‘Ordinance Raj’, is trying to overrule all the democratic norms and institutions. Modi’s Gujarat opting for harsher replacement of TADA and POTA, extending AFSPA to Arunachal Pradesh without the consent of state government and despite the popular demand to repeal it, using CBI and NSA against political opponents – these are some of the glaring examples of rising authoritarianism in the Modi rule. Even the country’s Supreme Court is being pressurized to ‘not to be afraid of 5-star activists’ but go by the diktat of 5-star Prime Minister and his corporate friends. Unleashing large scale repression and state terror on various movements and downtrodden sections has become the order of the day. There is indiscriminate arrest of workers, peasant and activists. Even the bail is not granted for a long time as seen in the case of Maruti workers. In a brazen instance of state terror, 20 rural wood cutters (tribals) falsely charged with smuggling were killed in cold blood in a fake encounter in Andhra Pradesh (bordering Tamil Nadu) ruled by TDP-BJP government. So, Modi government represents corporate-communal takeover with growing attacks on democratic institutions and rights. Within a year of Modi rule, a popular movement, campaign and resistance against corporate-communal and authoritarian rule has grown. We, as the revolutionary trend within the working class movement, must intervene in this ongoing motion in the society and develop an independent assertion of left democratic forces. Make in India Modi came to power with the slogan of development and made development synonymous with his pet project ‘Make in India’. It is basically based on deregulation, de-licencing with no ‘Inspector Raj’ in manufacturing sector. Industrial corridor is part of it where prime agricultural land adjacent to railway tracks and highways will be acquired to be handed over to corporates and MNCs. Modi has assured all the foreign investors of cheap land, cheap labour with no labour laws and no ‘hassles’ in regulatory procedures. For this, high value sectors like Railways, Defence and Construction have been permitted 100% FDI. The 28 sectors being targeted like, Bio-technology, Aviation, Automobiles, IT, Pharmaceuticals etc. are highly capital intensive sectors with little scope for employment generation. Our experience of SEZs (50% of acquired land for SEZs is lying vacant, mainly in Gujarat) is that the acquired land has been used for constructing high rise buildings, Malls and golf courses and, even for opening private educational institutions owned by political leaders as in the case of Maharashtra Industrial Development corporation land. So, Make in India is basically an open invitation for looting our land, natural resources and opening up of sweat shops to make windfall profits. This can be exemplified in the manufacturing sector by the example of Hyundai, Tamil Nadu. There are 2308 permanent employees, 3587 apprentices and 6000 contract labour. The salary component of all the 3 categories is Rs. 17 crores 98 lakhs and 83 thousand. Whereas, Hyundai manufactures 50,000 cars per month and the monthly sales value is Rs. 3000 crores. So, the employee cost is only 0.6%, and moreover, the automobile Industry in Tamil Nadu has been declared a public utility service thus rendering all strikes illegal. There are numerous examples of sweat shops where the workers are deprived of basic necessities, like not allowing to sit on the duty, no use of cell phones, no trade union rights, long hours of work and even restrictions on movement and moral policing on women workers. So, Modi’s ‘Make in India’ is basically the corporate-MNCs’ Make in India at the cost of farmers and workers. The Modi government has undertaken massive privatization drive in PSUs. This year has seen the largest disinvestment of PSUs in comparison to previous disinvestment drive by any government. From IOC to ITDC, stakes were sold to the extent of Rs. 41,000 crores. Spectrum and Coal Block auctions have fetched this government Rs. 3 lakh crores. Already through passage of the Coal Bill, the way has been cleared for gradual privatisation of coal sector. In 2013-‘14, Maharatna Navratna public sector units gave the central government a dividend of Rs. 45,000 crores and LIC is giving 1.5 lakh crores for the modernization of railways. The huge amount contributed by PSUs towards nation building and social welfare schemes is intended to be handed over by Modi government to corporates to fulfil their private profits. There is every move to make the public sector banks sick with the huge accumulation of NPAs by corporates and to hand over this sector gradually to corporate-MNCs. The direction is set – this govt. is for liquidation of PSUs and handing over them to corporate and MNCs on a platter. And now, with the decision of the govt. to invest Rs. 5000 crores from the corpus of EPF-Pension fund, the drive of privatization of this important social security has been accelerated with heard-earned money of workers being thrown to the vagaries of the market. Indian Railways, the National Transporter has been passing through an unprecedented crisis and this crisis has been aggravated by Modi's Neo-liberal Policy of 100% FDI & "Make in India" exercise. The existing 1.3 million workforce is further going to be reduced through the process of human resources audit and so called evaluation of productivity of each employee, let alone the question of filling up existing 2.5 lakhs vacancies. Restructuring of Railway Board by separating roles of policy making, regulation and operations is in the process of implementation with amendments of Indian Railway Act and Innovation Council (Kayakalp) formed with Ratan Tata at its head. This has cleared the way for full scale privatisation and 100% FDI in the interest of domestic & foreign capital with setting up of Railway infrastructure company which will own Railway infrastructure with independent regulator for economic regulation. The govt. has also come out with the ‘Road Transport Safety Bill’ 2014 which intends to make the drivers wholly responsible for road accidents and penalize them with heavy penalties, apart from, putting an end to the governments’ control over the state transport and hand it over to corporate companies, This year’s budget of Modi govt. exposes its clear cut corporate agenda - the tax exemption of Rs. 5.89 lakh crores to corporates, abolition of wealth tax and reduction of corporate tax from 30 % to 25%; whereas no tax relief to middle class but hike of 1.5% in service tax, slashing of Rs. 50,000 crores in spending in social sectors, like agriculture, drinking water, sanitation, health, women and child care, housing, urban poverty alleviation and education, which all will deeply hurt urban and rural poor. So, Modi govt. in line with the overall imperialist policy of globalization is strengthening the hands of corporates and upper echelons of population and passing the burden of crisis on to the shoulders of common people particularly working class, instead of enhancing the purchasing power of the people by raising the wages, strengthening the employment generation and rural development, education and health. The reversal of these neo-liberal, pro-corporate policies of Modi govt. is a serious challenge before us. In fact, Mr Modi is pursuing the policies of previous Congress-led UPA-II regime more ruthlessly. Most of the state governments of different colours are also pursuing the same neo-liberal policies. Aam Admi Party raised the hopes of working people in Delhi by raising the issues of housing, making the contract workers permanent, minimum wages and other benefits and TU rights, but now these working people are getting disillusioned with AAP after it has formed a govt. with thumping majority. Now, the Chief Minister of Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal is speaking about total privatization of public transportation and that ‘the government has no business to be in business.’ He is speaking the language of neo-liberals and Delhi is again witnessing the gradual rise of workers’ agitation on the burning issues of contract workers, minimum wages and others. In this situation of corporate-rightward shift prevalent in the society, a new effort to reassert the progressive, left tradition in society is also developing. It gained momentum with the emergence of nation-wide solidarity against the repression on Maruti workers. AICCTU also went into solidarity action including collecting funds for the Maruti workers. In several well-known educational institutions like JNU and DU, students are organizing mess workers in hostels, contract workers working in the institutions and construction workers working in the nearby construction sites. The young filmmakers are taking their cameras to the factory gates and workers’ hovels in Kolkata and Mumbai, to the areas of communal carnage and agrarian movements, and cultural activists are performing in urban working class areas. In continuation of the legacy of com. Shankar Guha Niyogi, there has been an effort by individuals and groups to bring to the fore the issue of workers’ health by founding “Shaheed (Martyr) Hospital” in Dalli-Rajhara area in Chattisgarh as a parallel and an alternative to govt.’s dismal record and apathy to the issue of health of working people. Many such individuals and groups are working in the vast slum areas of urban India on the issues of health and education for working people. AICCTU must learn from all these experiences and develop close links with these forces for a powerful solidarity campaign and movement. So, the working class need to assert as an independent political force to take on the challenge of corporate-communal offensive and attacks on rights and livelihood. AICCTU joins the AIPF, a loose forum of struggling left-socialist-democratic forces to further strengthen the forces of change and progress. Attack on Labour Rights As soon as the Modi govt. came to power, it launched an onslaught on workers’ rights by the way of amendments in present labour laws and bringing new anti-labour, pro-employer laws, as promised by Modi in his pre-election parleys with corporates. But to start with, it took state govt. route by making use of concurrent status of labour laws with BJP-led Rajasthan govt. taking the lead and ‘showing the way’. The amendments in various Acts brought by Rajasthan govt. have been given assent, of course on central governments’ direction, by President of India, clearing the way for their adoption by other state governments too. Followed by this, the central govt. came out with amendments in several labour laws. So, the Modi government has from all corners launched attack on labour rights to facilitate its pet project, ‘Make in India’. In all, these amendments, both by the central government and by the govt. of Rajasthan, are designed to snatch away rights from working class by pushing out more than seventy per cent of the industrial and service establishments in the country and their workers out of the purview of almost all labour laws, to do away with right to form trade union, right to collective bargaining and tripartite consultation mechanism; while giving free hand to employers/corporates to exploit workers and hire and fire at will. These moves of amendments are aimed at empowering the employers to retrench/lay off workers or declare closure/shut down at will and also resort to mass scale contractorisation. The amendments passed by Rajasthan Assembly on 31st July, 2014 pertain to ID Act, Factories Act, CLARA and Apprenticeship Act. The amendments seek to further facilitate the already existing hire and fire process by raising the minimum limit of employed workers from 100 to 300 for an industrial establishment to need permission from the government for retrenchment. An industrial dispute has to be raised within 3 years. Only a trade union with a membership of 30% of total workforce can register, contract labour legislation will apply in an establishment only where the number of such workers is 50 (earlier it was 20) and Factories Act will apply to an establishment which uses electricity and employs 20 workers and which does not use electricity and employs 40 workers (earlier it was 10 and 20 respectively). Along with these amendments by Rajasthan government, the central govt. has come out with many amendment Bills among which those related to Apprentice Act and Labour Laws (Exemption from Furnishing Returns and Maintaining Registers for certain Establishments) Act have already been passed by the Parliament. The amendment to Apprenticeship Act will pave the way for replacement of the contract/casual/temporary workers and even regular workers by comparatively low paid apprentices, which are already out of the purview of most of the labour laws. This amendment coupled with amendment in CLARA by Rajasthan govt. will severely dilute the workers’ protection, whatsoever under the Act, and weaken any legal option of and struggle for regularization or automatic absorption. The central govt. has also come out with amendments in Factories Act, in line with Rajasthan amendments. The amendments by Central Govt. in other Acts like Minimum Wages Act, Industrial Disputes Act and EPF Act have also been prepared. In amendment to EPF Act the govt. has opened the option of adopting New pension scheme. The recent move of central government to amend Child Labour (Prohibition & Regulation) Act in the name of ‘family enterprise and skill development’ legalize child labour and, moreover, make it unpaid. It is part of Modi’s offer of cheap, docile, non-regulated Indian labour to foreign enterprises and corporate for ‘Make in India’. Similarly, allowing women workers to work in night duties without making the workplace safe and secure for women workers is part of providing sweat shops for ‘Make in India’. Completing the circle of attacks, the govt. has prepared a new anti-labour Bill called “Small Factories (Regulation of Employment and Condition of Services)” Bill, 2014, which proposes to exempt all small factories employing less than 40 workers from 14 labour laws. Along with this the govt. has, to fulfil the old demand of employers to simplify labour laws, started amalgamating various labour laws in 4-5 Labour Codes, and to begin with, it has prepared Wage Code, amalgamating four wage related Acts. AICCTU and other CTUs have opposed these amendments including rejecting the Wage Code. United and concerted working class movement against this onslaught by central and state governments on rights of working class is the need of hour. Modi government’s move to aggressively push forward the previous UPA govt. policies of disinvestment, Privatization and Contractualization has met with resistance in the organized sector. The workers and employees of Coal, BSNL, financial institutions and Transport have organized powerful strikes. The Railways and central government employees have given a call for indefinite strike from 23rd November 2015. AICCTU must strongly intervene in this ongoing motion in the organized sector and must develop close relations and dialogue with the vanguards. In the historical coal strike, our affiliated union CMWU played leading role in subsidiaries like BCCL, CCL and ECL. In all India transport strike, our affiliated and fraternal unions in Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai played leading role in campaigns and strike. In Railways, our 3 zonal registered unions and a union in Chittaranjan Locomotive independently campaigned for AICCTU conference among railway workers. In the coming days, we must chalk out concrete plans to effectively intervene in the movements of these organized sections of working class.

Federations Contract and Honorarium Workers “All India Contract and non-Regular Workers’ Federation” was launched by AICCTU in an all India conference of contract workers at Bangalore on 1-2 Feb. 2015 to give special thrust to organize and raise their issues at national level. On this occasion an impressive rally was held on 1st February. The conference has come out with a set of demands as ‘Charter of struggle’ on immediate issues of contract workers pertaining to regularisation, equal pay for equal work, living wages, social security and dignity. The contract workers are increasing in an unprecedented manner in all spheres of economy - from govt. departments and PSUs to private, corporate controlled organized industries. Their numbers have risen to 60-80% in comparison with permanent workers and are employed in all kinds of jobs, the rising trend being their employment in core, perennial and production jobs. The entire contract labour issue has emerged as a central issue of the working class movement. Last few years have witnessed unprecedented movements and outbursts of contract workers in the entire country, in all spheres of economy, to name a few- from corporate and MNC controlled industries like Maruti Suzuki in Haryana, Pricol and Hyundai in Tamil Nadu, General Motors in Gujarat, Tata Motors in Jharkhand, Bajaj Auto in Pune, Toyota plant in Bangalore, Graziano in Noida, UP (all automobile companies) to various govt. owned companies and PSUs like NLC in Tamil Nadu, CIL and SAIL, DTC and Metro Rail in Delhi, state govt. departments like in Bihar, Delhi etc. After Modi govt. came to power at centre, the working class has come under an all-out attack, particularly its rights, whatsoever, are being snatched away. To do away with and quell the rising problem of contract labour, the Modi rule has got busy in the business of finding solutions. It is seriously mulling over the legislations to allow firms to directly hire temporary workers, without contractor in between and thus CLARA not in way, who will work for a fixed period and then thrown out with no legal hassles i.e. hire and fire at will. So, the whole issue of regularization or automatic absorption will be done away with. Already the lead has been taken by BJP-led Rajasthan govt. in the form of amending CLARA, thus opening the way for doing away with some kind of protection in the form of CLARA. The Modi Government has already passed bill amending the Apprentices Act of 1961 paving the way for replacement of the contract/casual/ temporary workers and even regular workers by comparatively low paid apprentices. And, along with these exercises, Small Factories (Regulation of Employment and Condition of Services) Bill, 2014, which proposes to exempt all small factories employing less than 40 workers from 14 labour laws and proposed amendments in Factories Act would have a far-reaching impact on the contract labour issue. Responding to this situation, AICCTU is consistently making efforts to organize this new and young working class, and today this section has gradually developed as one of the main component of our social base. The formation of Federation of contract workers at national level by us reflects the culmination of our developing practice and increasing base, as well as, our aim to unify their struggles with revolutionary orientation at national level. In Bangalore, our comrades have been working among contract workers of public and private sectors for the last 2 decades and we were able to get them transport allowance, washing allowance, special allowance, attendance bonus, accommodation allowance and other components of wages. BHEL contract workers are paid Rs. 430/- per day, besides getting canteen facilities; HAL contract labour also are paid Rs. 430/- per day; Bosch security contract workers are paid between Rs. 500 - Rs. 615/- per day and Kennametal Widia canteen contract workers are paid between Rs. 500 – Rs. 650/-per day. Around 244 Term Contract Labour (TCL) in HAL, Bangalore, have recently entered into a long term agreement with the company where they have secured Rs. 1044 as daily wages (monthly Basic pay Rs. 16640 + DA + Accommodation Allowance of 20% of basic + Special Allowance of 5% of basic + Earned Leave of 2 ½ days for each completed month, etc.). As far as we know, this is the highest wage paid for any contract worker in the entire country In Bihar as a significant development, the contract and honorarium workers working in various govt. departments and schemes have got organized under our leadership and formed a Federation involving 22 organizations through a state level conference. They are continuously in struggle for last one year and their agitations in various forms culminated in state level Bandh on 22 December last year which got support from CPI-ML and other left parties. They have made an exemplary political assertion in the state. The movement of these sections continue with contract teachers of Bihar on a month long strike at the time of our conference in Patna on the demands of regularization and pay scale. The conference expressed its solidarity with their strike. In Tamil Nadu, we are making concerted efforts in organizing contract workers & migrant workers. State & District level conferences are planned in June/July 2015. We have work among contract labour in Tirchy ordinance factory, T.N. Electricity board, Shanti Gears & Asian Paints. In Bhilai, Chattisgarh, AICCTU affiliated Centre of Steel Workers is putting emphasis on organizing contract workers of Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP). It has taken several initiatives on the issues of contract workers like minimum wage, wage slip, retrenchment etc. It has taken some notable initiatives in cases of accidents in BSP. In the case of a major Gas leak accident in BSP on 12 June 2014 resulting in the death of one contract worker, 3 permanent workers and also 2 officers, as a result of our initiative the dependent of the contract worker, employed through HSCL, was given permanent job in the plant despite the fact that there is no such provision for a contract worker. Along with this, his family was given compensation. In another incident in BSP of the death of a contract worker, employed through HSCL, 3 days sit-in was organized with the body of worker. Despite threats by management, the sit-in continued and finally the adamant HSCL management was forced to give the dependent of the deceased worker a job under contract and also compensation. In Delhi, our main expansion and struggle is among contract workers of Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) and various govt. and private hospitals, apart from workers employed in other sectors. In DTC, we have taken several initiatives in last 2-3 years among contract workers in the forms of sit-ins and rallies at DTC HQ and state secretariat, the most recent among them is a rally and demonstration at state secretariat on 13 April this year after coming of new AAP govt., which had promised regularization and equal pay for contract workers. Also, our student comrades in JNU have unionized contract workers employed in different jobs. In Orissa, a new union of sanitation workers has been affiliated in NIRTAR, a central hospital, and movement is going on for minimum wages, EPF and bonus. Earlier the contractor did not pay proper PF and bonus, but after the formation of union and movement the workers they are now getting proper benefits which includes compensation and service to the dependent of a worker who died on duty in an accident. In Uttarakhand, we have formed a forum against contract labour system comprising of contract employees of govt. departments and have waged struggles in the leadership of this forum, under the pressure of which the state government was forced to notify the regularization of contract workers working for 10 years. In BSNL, Uttarakhand the contract workers’ union has, after discussions and our interventions for a long time, got affiliated with us and they under our leadership have demonstrated twice in state capital and once participated in Delhi demonstration along with other contract workers. In Assam, we have contract workers’ Union in Guwahati Refinery which has waged some successful struggles. In U.P., we have formed a union of contract workers in IIT, Kanpur, their first union, and movement is going on over the issue of equal pay for equal work and regularization. Similarly in Noida, a new union of contract workers employed in a private educational institution ‘Amity International School’ has been formed. In Chandigarh, we have contract worker unions in some important institutions like PGI, Punjab Engineering College and Government Medical College. In all these institutions we are consistently fighting for the rights and benefits of contract workers, and in PGI we could force the administration for a tripartite agreement for equal pay for equal work. In Railways, we have contract workers’ union in South Eastern Railway which has expanded by enrolling membership in various departments in Kharagpur and Ranchi Division with planning to spread over S.E.R. as a whole. In Ranchi Division, we have won a legal battle related to railway sanitation workers and as a result we are in a position to consolidate that base in near future in S.E.R. This apart, we have Safai Karamchari and Contractual Workers’ Union in East Coast Railways which has held a series of agitations including gherao of DRM office and strike on the issues of minimum wages, EPF, ESI and Bonus resulting in achieving these demands. The union has expanded to Puri, Bhubaneswar, Cuttack and Khurdha Road Junction railway stations in Orissa.

Honorarium/Incentive based workers In several states AICCTU, and also in cooperation with AIPWA, is marching ahead in organizing Honorarium/Incentive based workers working in various government (central and state) schemes and departments. Bihar this year has witnessed a series of big demonstrations of mid-day meal workers in thousands at district level and state level at Patna. Also, a big state level demonstration of ASHA workers was held in April at Patna. AIPWA has taken a special initiative here in organizing these workers. We are in the process of giving our campaigns and agitational programmes organizational shape. In W. Bengal, a state level union of mid-day meal workers has been formed which has taken a number of initiatives particularly at Hawrah and 24 parganas (N). Initiative to organize the ASHA workers in cooperation with AIPWA at state level has been taken. The ASHA workers are particularly active at Hooghly district and also at West Medinipur. In Uttarakhand, we are consistently moving ahead in organizing the ASHA, anganwadi and mid-day meal workers. Among them, the main progress has been achieved among ASHA workers, who under the leadership of AICCTU have held demonstrations twice in the state capital and once in Delhi, and ASHA union in the state has become our foremost union. Despite all the efforts of Cong. and BJP to break the struggle of ASHA workers under our leadership, the union and its struggle is growing. This apart, we have unions of anganwadi and mid-day meal workers too. In Assam, the Barack Valley (South Assam) unit of Sodou Asom ASHA Santha (All Assam ASHA Association) went on a successful 15 days total strike from 1st November 2014. This strike struggle for 15 days facing and defying all odds might be one without a parallel in movement of ASHA throughout the country. In Jharkhand, the process of affiliation of one union of mid-day meal workers is in process. In U.P., in the district of Deoria some progress has been made in organizing mid-day meal, ASHA and anganwadi.

Construction Workers Our construction federation “All India Construction Workers’ Federation” (AICWF) was formed on June 28-29, 2008 in Patna and is functioning in a regular and efficient manner. It held its 2nd national Conference at Delhi along with a Parliament March on 27 November, 2012. It has taken many agitational and propaganda programmes which include all India Demand Day of construction workers on 8 January 2013 and country-wide district level demonstrations on 6th August 2013. The unions affiliated with the Federation played commendable role in mobilizing construction workers in 20-21 February 2013 strike. The Federation has got affiliated to UITBB (an international federation of construction and building workers and an affiliate of WFTU) and participated in Asia-Pacific Regional meeting of UITBB held at Hanoi, Vietnam on 7-8 October 2014. Our construction unions in last 3-4 years have seen considerable expansion in several states and are consistently taking agitational initiatives on the issues of workers of this sector. After agricultural workers, we have achieved biggest expansion among construction workers, and in many states this sector constitutes our largest membership. In Bihar, our construction workers’ union is the most rapidly expanding and active union whose membership and activities are spread over in almost all districts with functional structures in several districts. Organizing good mobilizations of construction workers in national and state level calls and programmes is an important feature of union. Union here has been able to achieve several benefits for the workers from welfare board through struggles. We are also a member of state welfare board for construction workers. In Tamil Nadu, due to our consistent efforts, cess fund for construction labour welfare has been increased to 1% from 0.3%. We are demanding that the government should desist from using and diverting Rs. 50 crores from this fund for building ITIs in state. We are also demanding of the government to allow trade unions in the registration process of workers in Board as well as in helping the workers to get benefits. A State level construction labour conference was organized on 26 April 2015 in Dindigul. In Karnataka, our construction workers’ union is operating in districts like Kolar, Koppal, Mysore, Davanagere, Hubli-Dharwad, etc. In W. Bengal, the Construction workers’ union has a number of district committees which have organized district conferences, and state conference of union is due to organized in this year. It is consistently in movement on various demands. In Jharkhand, our construction workers’ union has made expansion beyond Ranchi and other old areas of work to more districts including Koderma and Dumka. We organized protest programs both independently and in the form of joint activities against the arbitrary step of the state government particularly during Hemant Soren regime to exclude our construction workers’ union from Welfare Board for construction workers in the name of reorganizing it as a reaction to stiff resistance put up by us against a controversial and dubious proposal brought by the Labour Minister. In Puducherry, our Construction Workers Union has played key role through its continuous struggles on various pressing demands of construction workers in achieving from govt. an yearly Bonus of Rs.1000/- to all workers enrolled in the Construction workers Welfare Board and Rs.1000/- as Pension. In Delhi, our union has presence in most of the districts and is an important component of our trade union work. In U.P, there is good expansion among construction workers covering 7 districts. Recently an impressive rally of construction workers was held in Faizabad. In Rajasthan, construction workers’ union is our main union and has presence in 5 districts. In Orissa, our Construction workers’ union has expanded in 7 districts. In Punjab, we have unions among brick-kiln workers and agitations and wage agreements is a regular feature. We have construction worker unions in Assam, Uttarakhand and Gujarat, and in Chandigarh, we have recently made a good beginning. In Andaman we are a member of welfare board. Municipal workers Our Federation of Municipal workers “ALL INDIA MUNICIPAL WORKERS’ FEDERATION” (AIMWF) was launched at its national conference on 1-2 March 2014 at Gaya, Bihar. It is comprised of both permanent and contract workers particularly sanitation workers. Its meetings are held regularly. Since its formation, it has held one programme of country-wide demonstrations on 10 December 2014 on a 9-point charter of Demands. The main states of work among them include Bihar, Maharashtra, Chattisgarh, Karnataka, and U.P. This apart, in some other states our work is in primary stages. In Karnataka, contract sanitation workers of Bangalore Municipality (BBMP), have been able to achieve increase in wages from Rs. 1500 to 6250 in different phases and relentless struggles are going on in various forms in our leadership on ‘same pay for same work’ and other issues. Our legal intervention has achieved a major victory by securing more than 5 years arrears of wages for 216 workers in some areas of Bangalore. We could also use the government machinery to some extent through a sub-committee meant for abolition of contract system in sanitation in BBMP. Recently, the government has revised wages of sanitation workers to the tune of around Rs. 10,000 which is to be notified. We are also part of a state level federation of sanitation workers unions in various municipalities and corporations in Karnataka led by democratic forces. In Chattisgarh, particularly in 3 municipal corporations namely Bhilai, Charoda and Kumhari our union has taken up several agitational programmes including strike actions on various issues like implementation of labour laws and PF and removal of petty contractors. As a result of these agitations, we have been able to start PF deductions in general, and particularly in Bhilai Municipal Corporation we have been able to force deposition of PF dues by contractors. In Maharashtra, the unions are in Pune and Mumbai municipal corporations. The union affiliated to federation is the only municipal workers union in Pune municipal corporation and one of the leading trade unions in the state which has both permanent and contract workers. It has been consistently waging struggles on issues of contract workers. In UP, we have unions in Allahabad and Kanpur municipal corporations, and we have played leading role in the movement against privatization of some services of municipalities like garbage disposal resulting into stoppage of privatization. In Bihar, our work is spread over in all 11 municipal corporations with main work in 6 districts namely, Gaya, Bhagalpur, Siwan, Darbhanga, Mujaffarpur and Betia, where we are regularly taking up the issues of workers, both permanent and casual. In Tamil Nadu, we have one union among municipal workers in Sirkazhi. Apart from this, we have taken initiative to form their union in Coimbatore too. In addition to the above-mentioned federations, the national conference has decided to take concrete initiatives to develop national level federations in the following sectors: 1. ASHA, 2. Road Transport and 3. Beedi

Organising Women Workers Since the last national conference we have succeeded in taking efforts in this direction. We planned for state level conventions in select states highlighting the demands of women workers such as enumeration of women workers in the country, prevention of sexual harassment in work place, meaningful social security for women workers, equal pay for equal work and setting up a committee on the lines of Sachar Committee to study these aspects and recommend and timeframe for implementation of such recommendations. In Tamil Nadu, a state level convention was held in June 2012 which gave a call for a state-wide demonstration on these issues in July 2012. A women workers’ convention with the participation of AITUC, CITU and NTUI was organized in Nellai on 30 June 2014. In 2014-15, state level conventions and workshops were held in West Bengal, Assam, Bihar, Uttarakhand and UP. These workshops concentrated on the issues of ASHA workers and organizing them. The Bihar workshop was held in coordination with AIPWA, and AIPWA and AICCTU together organized demonstrations on the issues of mid-day meal workers of the state. ASHA workers issues were highlighted in the demonstrations held in Uttarakhand. These workshops and demonstrations have now led to a need of floating a national level organization for ASHA workers. During this period an investigation among the women workers in the tailoring industry was conducted in Tamil Nadu and a booklet based on the investigation highlighting the demand of implementation of minimum wages was released on International Women Day 2015. It is planned to organize these women workers on this issue while stressing the central demands. As we have stressed earlier, we have to bring more and more women workers into AICCTU and our initiatives and programs will have to be directed toward organizing those women workers who are yet to be unionized. This will help not only in expansion of AICCTU but also in bringing the women workers into class struggle, thus expanding the contours of class struggle and increasing the strength of the working class in its fight against capital. Future Expansion Among New Sections Migrant Workers Migration of labour at massive scale from East to the Southern states is the growing phenomenon. Earlier, the migration generally took place towards North and West of India. The Inter-state Migrant Workers’ Act is non-existent and these workers work in semi-bonded conditions with no protection, rights or security. In Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Puducherry, our state units have taken good initiatives to organize these migrant workers and they have stood by them at the time of distress like accidents, regional chauvinistic attacks etc. While they labour round the clock, they are denied even the minimum rights of a citizen like enrolment in social welfare schemes and voter lists. Mr. Modi is giving voting right to rich NRIs from Europe and USA, but under his nose, this right is denied to India citizens within the country. In coordination with AIARLA (All India Agricultural and Rural Labour Association), we must take up the issues of migrant labour in a more organized and systematic manner with their special charter of demands. Domestic workers Domestic workers constitute one of the major segments of women workers in urban and semi-urban India. It is an organized force in Maharashtra particularly in Mumbai and they through their struggles compelled the state government to form Welfare Board. This section is getting organized in various cities in the country. ILO has also adopted convention 189 on the wages and working conditions of domestic workers. There is a consistent demand for the ratification of this Convention by government of India and bring a Central Act for these workers. IT Sector Employees In IT&ITES sector too, a new motion is being witnessed with the employees of TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) organizing themselves against the massive retrenchment undertaken by the management. IT Sector employees are young, educated workers who are working under severe stress and worse service conditions with no job security. This section constitutes the new working class which is entering the organized working class movement. We must take appropriate initiatives to organize this section.

National Initiatives

As our first national initiative after coming of Modi government at centre, we organized a Campaign from 15 August to expose Modi Govt.’s betrayal of the promises made during the election campaign. The campaign culminated on 3rd September 2014 in successful countrywide demonstrations and sit-ins against “100 days of Modi govt.’s betrayal of promises”. During the previous UPA government, we took several national initiatives, the notable among which are as follows: AICCTU played leading role in several states in organizing the historic first ever 2-day all-India general strike on 20-21 February 2013 called by 11 CTUs, and along with CPI (ML) organized successful Bandh in states like Bihar and Jharkhand, besides going all-out in organizing the strike in all major states of work. AICCTU was perhaps the only CTU organization which observed countrywide the first anniversary of historic two days strike on 21 February 2014 in the form of rallies and demonstrations. AICCTU in most of the states played an active role in making the 20th Sept. 2012 Bharat Bandh successful. AICCTU consistently supported and stood in solidarity with the movement of Maruti Suzuki workers. Apart from participating in some agitaitonal programmes of Maruti workers in Haryana, AICCTU held a series of programmes which include All India protest Day on 20th July 2012 and 22nd August 2012, a convention in Delhi on 7 September 2012 and countrywide protest day on 18 July 2013 – the first anniversary of Maruti incident. This apart, a sum of 1 lakh rupees in total was donated to Maruti workers in programmes held in Faridabad on 7 July and Chandigarh on 11 July 2013. The fund was collected by Tamil Nadu committee particularly from auto industry workers. In 45th session of ILC on 17-18 May 2013 the representative of AICCTU, com. Subhas Sen confronted the PM and Labour Minister demanding release of workers of Noida and Maruti from jail and arrest of killers of com. Ganga Ram Koul. Also, all-India protest Day was held on 12 April 2013 against the killing of Ganga Ram Koul demanding arrest of his killers. We launched a Political Propaganda campaign from February 5 to March 5 2014 to raise the working class issues just before the Lok Sabha Elections of 2014 were held. AICCTU took national initiatives to highlight the demands of contract workers including an All India Demand Day of contract workers on 7 November 2012 and a sit-in (dharna) on 11 October 2012 in front of Parliament. Major State level Initiatives and Expansion

Tamil Nadu: Some major initiatives in Tamil Nadu include two propaganda yatras on burning issues of state workers and with a call to make Feb 20-21, 2013 all India strike a huge success from Kanyakumari and Coimbatore to Chennai from 2 Feb culminating on 12 Feb 2013 into public meeting in Chennai; two long successful strikes in 2013-2014 in Madras Gymkhana club (147 Days) and Asian paints (120 days), Sriperumbudur; conclusion of two wage Agreements in Pricol, Coimbatore as a result of which more than 230 workers were made permanent, and expansion of our work to Shanti Gears, a Murugappa Group Company; big strikes of workers from late march 2015 on the issue of wage increase in Power loom sector; a successful AICCTU-led court arrest programme on 28 Oct 2014; publication of a booklet on the minimum wages of garment workers; holding of a state level workshop on basic Marxism & Trade union tactics in Chennai on 21-22 July 2012; organizing a solidarity convention & meetings in support of Maruti workers and visit of a team from Tamil Nadu to Manesar and contributing Rs. 1 lakh to Maruti workers; 4 days long Strike of lorry workers from 28 July 2014; taking initiative in organizing protest against TN government’s decision to declare automobile manufacturing industry as a public utility service; conducting 2 yatras for 38 days covering all 32 districts demanding wage parity to load workers of Civil Supplies Corporation with FCI workers. Besides, we are concentrating in Sriperumbuthur region & here AICCTU is working in tandem with Revolutionary Youth Association. On 23 March 2015, we had a big successful programme in Sriperumbudur wherein AIPF’s 100 days campaign on land & labour rights was launched. In Tuticorin Port, we have recently formed a surface Transport union with a branch in Chennai Port. The Tamil monthly called Orumaipadu (solidarity) is regularly being published with a circulation of 5000 copies. Karnataka: AICCTU has witnessed a good expansion in Karnataka, particularly in Bangalore. We are active among contract sanitation workers of Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) and also among contract workers of Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB). We have our unions among contract workers of public sector like Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) and Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML) in Bangalore and Kolar Gold Fields (KGF). Our union in NIMHANS hospital is on struggle for wage increase. We are also operating among government hospital nurses of Bangalore. We are a recognised union among contract workers of Race Course in Bangalore and Mysore. We continue to maintain the lead in our work among readymix concrete workers from domestic corporate and multinational companies like RMC Readymix India, A Division of Prism Cements, RDC Concrete India and Lafarge India. We also have union among canteen and security contract workers of BOSCH, Kennametal WIDIA and L&T. We have also formed a new union among street vendors. The union of Network Professionals of Karnataka State Wide Area Network (KSWAN), a state level union is affiliated to AICCTU. Increase in wages, same pay for same work, regularization and social dignity of contract workers have been major agenda of struggles, and on these issues we have waged successful struggles and achieved some good agreements. Besides, in Gangavati, Koppal district, we have unions among rice mill workers, construction workers, auto technicians, sanitation workers, street vendors, tractor and taxi drivers, domestic workers and brick kiln workers. In Gangavati, we are successful in forcing municipal administration to form a committee as per Act with sizeable representation to street vendors. This is the first ever committee formed under the Act because of struggles of street vendors of Gangavati under the banner of AICCTU. In Mangalore, we have work among Readymix concrete workers and among LPG plant workers of BPCL. In RMC, Mangalore, we have signed the first agreement for contract workers after two-year long struggle and the question of regularization has been taken up now. An agreement was signed in BPCL with a wage increase of Rs.45 and Rs.55 a day per month each year over and above central minimum wages and VDA increases every six months in addition to earned leave, bonus and other benefits including gratuity. Bihar: The state conferences of various state level unions have been organized. The 20th state conference of Bihar State Non-gazetted Employees’ Federation (Gope Group) was successfully concluded on 10-12 April this year. Our work is spreading in more and more districts among unorganized workers including construction, bidi, contract/casual workers and Rly. hawkers & vendors.

We played a leading role in 20-21 February 2013 general strike in Bihar. We along with Bihar Khet Mazdoor Sabha organized state-wide strike of NREGA workers against deduction in wages, and finally the govt. was forced to increase their wages. We launched a powerful agitation against the closure of Nalanda Biscuit Company in Phulwari Sharif, and could successfully got it re-opened. We also led a successful struggle in one cement factory. 

West Bengal: AICCTU state unit held state level rally and mass meeting on 8th Dec 2014 at Kolkata which was a good success. More than 5 thousand workers from different sectors participated, and the presence of women worker was very impressive. The reign of terror on the struggling forces by the TMC-led State government, party & its mass organization continues since the time of 48 hours all-India General strike on 20-21 February 2013 when working people witnessed an unprecedented state sponsored attack. Despite threats and intimidation, the workers & employees rose to the occasion and made the strike a grand success. In Tea industry, after 9 months of continuous movement, a new Industry-wise tripartite agreement was signed and the state government gave notification of minimum wage, hitherto absent in this industry. The movement was led by 'Joint Forum' of all the TUs in this industry, including AICCTU. In Jute Industry, the industry-wise Charter of Demand placed by all the operating unions on 30 Jan, 2013 has finally been settled. Apart from meeting the other demands, the anti-worker clause of linking productivity-linked wages in the previous tripartite agreement during LF regime has finally been deleted in this agreement. Towards preparations of all-India joint transport strike on 30th April, AICCTU published a bulletin on anti-worker proposed Transport bill which has gained wide popularity. After achieving some significant results for the workers of closed Gouripur jute mills, initiative has been taken to realize the statutory dues of the closed PSU Mohini Mills at 24 Parganas (N). Along with taking various forms of struggle, a writ petition has been filed at Kolkata High Court. Our state level Bidi union has been able to realize minimum wages and house building facilities as per the welfare Act of this industry. Assam: The last two years have seen continuous movement against the killing of com. Gangaram Koul and on the demand of arrest of notorious Raju Sahu, 3 times Congress MLA of Chabua Legislative Assembly seat for masterminding the killing. The movement has taken various forms including bandh, rail roko, rasta roko, dharna, gherao of Raju’s house etc. Com. Gangaram Koul, a CWC member of AICCTU and General Secretary of Asom Sangrami Chah Shramik Sangha, was brutally assassinated on 25th March, 2013 at a spot very near his residence at Gutibari Gaon of Panitola Tea Estate in Tinsukia District of Assam. Under Com. Koul’s leadership, the union had been leading the tea workers’ movement on basic demands of tea workers. Besides, com. Koul had also spearheaded the movement against corruption at Panchayat level and also in the PDS. This political assassination of Com. Koul perhaps being the only instance of assassination of a T.U leader which could draw the people along the path of continuous struggle for the last two years with the demand of arresting the murderers. After bowing to the people’s pressure, the Govt. ultimately had to declare a CBI enquiry into the killing incident. Now the struggle is on against the dilly-dallying tactics of the CBI which is suspected to have been managed and so it has been trying to avert arrest of the Congress leader. This year on 25th March, the 2nd Martyrdom anniversary of com. Koul was marked by a mass meeting and a rally on the 29th March of thousands who pledged for continuing the movement till the CBI arrests the killers and the prime suspect Raju Sahu. On 15th December 2014 we organized an impressive rally of tea garden workers in Guwahati on the demands of Rs. 330 as daily wage apart and the issues of bonus and land puttas. Our union is also a member of ‘Tea Wage Advisory board’ in Assam. In Karbi-Anglong, against the incident of rape of 4 tribal women by army jawans under the garb of AFSPA operation, AICCTU and AIPWA with the participation of hundreds of women organized a militant gherao of the army camp on 4th April 2015. In the meantime, 3 new TUs in Oil sector have got affiliated with us. Another Union, namely the Assam State Fertilizer Workers’ Union, which got almost defunct, has been activated. Jharkhand: Coal Mines Workers’ Union as the biggest constituent of state AICCTU has regularly taken up issues like mine accidents, disinvestment, fitment of wages of trammers, issues related to outsourced workers, implementation of minimum wage decided by high power committee, providing employment to displaced persons etc. for organizing propaganda and agitations. In the recent coal strikes including 2-days historic strike we have made all out participation. Also, we have expanded our work in BCCL particularly in the Baghmara area. Besides, new expansion has taken place among Bauxite workers in Lohardaga-Gumla region with the formation of a union. Delhi: We have organized an extensive campaign on the issue of implementation of minimum wages in Wajirpur industrial area and organized many struggles. We have made good mobilizations in several programmes from here including all-India general strike. We have emerged as a major force here. In the case of arrest of workers including our union leaders and putting them in jail for several months in Noida immediately after the 20-21 February 2013 general strike, several initiatives in Noida and Delhi were taken up by the state unit of AICCTU. AICCTU also took many initiatives against the arrest and jailing of workers of Maruti Suzuki in false cases in the case of death of a manager in the company during the struggle of workers. The students of JNU, DU and Jamia under the leadership of AISA took active part in solidarity with Maruti and Noida workers. Chattisgarh: AICCTU affiliated Centre of Steel Workers organized a convention of PSUs against disinvestment and privatization and issues of contract labour on 4th October 2012. Apart from continuous initiatives on the issues of contract workers employed in BSP like minimum wage, wage slip, retrenchment etc., the union has organized several programmes of BSP employees on the issues of wage agreement, health facility, maintenance of the houses and cleanliness of the colony. On the issue of House Lease for BSP employees, a struggle committee has been formed and it is waging struggle for last 10 months. CSW leaders are playing a leading role in this movement. In Rajnand Gaon industrial area, due to an agitation by our union the management was forced to give compensation to the family of a worker who died in an accident in a Solvent factory. Puducherry: We have won 3 very important awards pertaining to regularization, back wages and reinstatement in the Labour Court of Puducherry after several years of legal struggle by us in Nithya Packaging Industries Pvt. Ltd. and ACCL (Automotive Coaches and Components Ltd., a subsidiary of Ashok Leyland). In yet another dispute in Ajantha Cycle parts, the labour Court awarded the reinstatement with back wages of entire members of our Union who had been terminated because they formed AICCTU Union. Here, we are consistently raising the issues of migrant works particularly notification by the UT government regarding Inter-state Migrant workers’ Act 1979, and our efforts including a convention on May Day in 2013, have played important role in forcing the government to issue the said notification. Also, in the same year, we held a parallel workers’ Assembly in which the CM was questioned on working class issues. Our profile has developed, and we are regularly invited by the govt. for discussion on various impending labour issues of Puducherry. In many cases our suggestions are conceded by the Govt. Uttarakhand: The first state conference of AICCTU was held on 12th April this year. We have emerged as a known and credible union in SIDCUL, Pant Nagar, and we have been able to conclude wage agreements in 3 big corporate factories without any unions. Right now, we have 3 affiliated unions in this industrial area. Besides a contract workers’ union in BSNL, we have unions among honorarium and incentive workers employed in various govt. schemes like ASHA, angawadi and mid-day meal. Our union has successfully led a struggle of tree-wood loading workers of Forest Development Corporation in determining their wages. We have also formed unions and led successful struggles of employees in Garhwal Medical College, Srinagar, NHPC and Mantri Metals. Maharashtra: Maharashtra Rajya Sarva Shramik Mahasangha, an affiliate of AICCTU has made good expansion among different sections of workers particularly informal including women workers like domestic workers. The union is also a member of Board for domestic workers. As a remarkable initiative, the union has been consistently waging campaigns and movements on provision of housing by govt. to textile workers. Uttar Pradesh: Our work is spread over in 17 districts particularly among unorganized workers and have three state level unions. This apart, a new union of unorganized drivers has been formed in Kanpur and process is going on to form a union of police chowkidars in Deoria district. Odisha: We have made expansion among contractual sanitation workers in EC Railway, sanitation workers in NIRTAR, a central hospital and construction workers. A new union has been affiliated in DEN Zong brewery. After getting affiliation and waging struggle in our leadership the workers here achieved salary hike of Rs. 3000 pm and other benefits. Rajasthan: Apart from our state level union among construction workers, a new union has been recently formed among workers employed in marble mines and we are continuously raising the issue of regularly occurring accidents in these mines. Telangana and Andhra Pradesh: In these two states, we have made some beginning in organizing various sections of unorganized workers particularly construction and domestic workers, auto drivers, tailors, apart from loaders in Rice Mills in Nizamabad. q

Central Office Functioning With the rising profile of AICCTU along with the expansion of movements and membership, effective and regular functioning of central office is essential. In consultation with central office bearers, a Secretariat will be formed to oversee the functioning of central office. The leaders of our national federations should develop the practice of regularly visiting and functioning through the central office. All the national programmes of leaders must be intimated to central office. Regular information and reporting to HQ of all major activities - initiatives, movements, workshops etc. - must be ensured. Some young comrades from student and youth background are active among working class in Delhi-NCR region and have also been incorporated in our national body. These comrades should be integrated with central work gradually. Our presence in social network sites is negligible nationally, though some state units have presence in these sites. We must ensure our effective presence in social network including establishing our website. Regard Shramik Solidarity (our central organ in Hindi), it has been decided to give more coverage to the issues and movements of rural labour to increase its penetration and circulation among them. It is generally felt that Solidarity should also be published in English, and can be started with E-version. This will help to increase our reach among organized sector, IT sector etc. q Joint TU movement After coming of Modi government at Centre in the month of May last year, the united forum of 11 CTUs (Central Trade Unions) have taken a series of initiatives against attacks on working people by this government. These CTUs include, apart from AICCTU, the BMS, INTUC, AITUC, HMS, CITU, AIUTUC, TUCC, SEWA, UTUC and LPF. A National Convention of Workers was held on 15th September 2014 at New Delhi followed by an All India Workers’ Protest Day on 5th December 2014 and country-wide Jail Bharo (Court Arrest) on 26th February 2015. In continuation of protests against the anti-worker policies and measures of the government a National Convention will be held at New Delhi on 26th May 2015 to declare ‘direct action including countrywide strike action’. In the present situation of unprecedented onslaught against the working class AICCTU should strive for an All India Strike at the earliest. During the previous UPA regime the forum of CTUs had taken a series of major initiatives on a charter of demands against the Manmohan Singh government. The most major initiative was historic first-ever 2-day all-India general strike on 20-21 February 2013. Towards preparation of this strike Parliament March was held on 20 December 2013 and prior to it Jail Bharo was held on 18-19 December. This apart, one day countrywide general strike was held on 28 February 2012 and country-wide demonstrations were held on 25 September 2013. q

Organizational Challenges and Tasks

• Regular holding of state conferences must be ensured. We must pay special attention to develop district level functioning and hold district conferences. At present, except for Tamil Nadu and some districts of Bihar, district structures either do not exist or are non-functional. Serious efforts from above i.e. from leadership are required to ensure above tasks.
• Regular workshops of activists and cadres at all levels should be held.
• Special emphasis must be given on working among honorarium/incentive based employees in major states, may be jointly with AIPWA.
• Emphasis should be given on organizing contract workers in major industrial areas, govt. departments and PSUs. RYA and AISA can be effective in spreading our work among young contract workers.
• Emphasis should be given on developing organizations and movements of migrant workers, in coordination with AIARLA.
• Special effort should be made to develop national level federations by our next conference in the following sectors: 1. ASHA, 2. Road Transport and 3. Beedi
• Special effort must be made to develop activists and cadres from youth and women workers. We must strive for building a National structure through a national convention for giving thrust to work among working women.
• In many states and sectors, there is problem of our confinement within a narrow base. A conscious effort to reach out to the broader circle through campaigns is the need of the hour. Relentless fight against formalism, routineism and economism in our work-style is required.
• A serious effort to develop area-base work among the urban working people, touching their social issues affecting their lives must be made in our city work.
• Strong solidarity campaigns and initiatives with the movements of various sections of toiling masses particularly with agrarian movements must be inculcated in the whole organization.
• Regular system of consistent involvement of our affiliated unions in our overall work and initiatives must be developed.
• A special effort for regular subscription and collective study of our central organ, Shramik Solidarity must be taken up.

Charter of Struggle

• Fight back the onslaught on trade union rights through amendments in labour laws and enactment of new anti-labour laws.
• Oppose the Land Acquisition Bill of Modi Govt. and stand in solidarity with peasants and agricultural labour.
• Oppose FDI in insurance, railways and defense; disinvestment in PSUs and privatization of natural resources like coal, as well as PF-Pension fund;
• Fight for Abolishing contract labour system, amendment for automatic re-absorption of contract labours and equal remuneration, benefits and service conditions for same and similar kind of works in all sectors and industries; for giving the status of a govt. employee with all service benefits to honorarium/incentive based workers.
• Oppose the discrimination and oppression against migrant workers, Fight for their rights and dignity including right to vote
• Oppose the move to dismantle MGNREGA and other welfare schemes.
• Intensify struggle for roll back of prices in all essential commodities, universalization of food security and inclusion of all unorganized workers in the BPL (below poverty line) list.
• Intensify struggle for job security, strict implementation of minimum wage and other labour laws, declaring minimum wage of Rs. 15,000/month as national minimum wage and raise the EPF pension to Rs. 7500 /month.
• Intensify struggle for right to housing, power, water and sanitation, as well as social security and pension for all.
• Fight for the demand of TU certification for registration of workers in welfare board, free registration, increased expenditure of Cess on workers and uniform rules in central construction workers’ Act to facilitate removal of extreme variations in state rules.
• Fight for equal wages for equal work for working women and for strict implementation of Act against sexual harassment, at workplaces.
• Fight for a comprehensive central legislation for Domestic workers and for Ratification by Indian govt. of ILO convention 189 pertaining to domestic workers.
• Fight for repealing all the draconian laws including AFSPA, which gives licence to rape and killing.
• Fight for Ratification by Indian govt. of ILO conventions 87 and 98 pertaining to the right to Freedom of Association and Protection of Right to Organize and Collective Bargaining
• Intensify struggle for pushing back the policies of corporate loot and land grab and attacks on rights, democracy and secular fabric.

National Office Bearers President: Com. S. Kumarasamy

Vice Presidents: Com. Swapan Mukherjee Com. D.P. Bakshi Com. S. Balan Com. S. Balasubramanian Com. Jawahar Com. Shyamlal Prasad Com. S.K. Sharma Com. Shashi Yadav Com. Meena Pal Com. Dibakar Bhattacharya Com. N.N. Banerjee Com. Biren Kalita Com. Bibek Das Com. Ranjan Ganguly Com. D. S. Diwakar Com. Krishna Singh Com. Bhim Rao Bagde Com. Rajbinder Rana Com. Hari Singh Com. Prem Lata Pandey Com. Raja Bahuguna General Secretary: Com. Rajiv Dimri

National Secretaries: Com. Suvendu Sen Com. Uday Bhatt Com. Subhas Sen Com. N. K. Natarajan Com. Bhuvaneshwari Com. R. N. Thakur Com. Ranvijay Kumar Com. Rambali Prasad Com. Basudev Bose Com. Atanu Chakravarty Com. Santosh Roy Com. V.K.S. Gautam Com. Brijendra Tiwari Com. Anil Verma Com. Mahindra Parida Com. Clifton D’ Rozario Treasurer Com. Swapan Mukherjee

National Council Members Tamil Nadu S. Kumarasamy *(CWCM), N. K. Natarajan (CWCM), Bhuvaneshwari (CWCM), Jawahar (CWCM), T. Sankarapandian (CWCM), K.G. Desikan (CWCM), G. Ramesh (CWCM), C. Erani Appan (CWCM), K. Govindaraj (CWCM), A. Govindaraj (CWCM), Damodaran (CWCM), K. Palanivel, Antony Mutthu, Antony Raj, Mohan, Kumaresh, Then Mozhi, Kuppa Bai, Mary Stella, Susila, Subramani, Saminathan, Munusami, Ganesan, Jayprakash Naryanan, Velmurugan, Raja Guru, Balamurugan, Raman, Thirunavu Karasu, Paul Raj, Manivel, Rajan

West Bengal Badudev Bose (CWCM), Atanu Chakravarty (CWCM), Meena Pal (CWCM), Dibakar Bhattacharya (CWCM), Nabendu Dasgupta (CWCM), Kishore Sarkar (CWCM), Boto Krishna Das, Mozammel Haque, Ganesh Sarkar, Debabrata Bhakto, Pradip Sarkar, Harish Roy, Prabir Das, Omprakash Rajbhar, Jayeem, Krishna Behera, Kajol Dutta, Jayashree Das, Narayan Roy, Amal Tarafdar

Bihar R.N. Thakur (CWCM), Rambali Prasad (CWCM), Ranvijay Kumar (CWCM), Shyamlal Prasad (CWCM), S.K. Sharma (CWCM), Shashi Yadav (CWCM), Surendra Singh (CWCM), Mukesh Mukt (CWCM), Maksudan Sharma, Sashikant Mishra, Chandra Kishore Prasad, Bal Mukund Chaudhry, Sheo Shankar Prasad-1, Sheo Shankar Prasad- 2, Kamlesh Kumar, Sangita Devi, Saroj Choubey

Jharkhand Shubhendu Sen (CWCM), Krishna Singh (CWCM), D. S. Diwakar (CWCM), Bhuneshwar Kewat (CWCM), Nakul Deo Singh, Baleshwar Gope, Subhash Mandal, Prem Prakash, Sukhdeo Prasad, Gopal Saran Singh, Mukul Bhattacharya, Vijay Paswan, Laxman Bediya, Om Prakash Singh, Nagendra Ram, R. S. Paswan

Maharashtra Uday Bhat (CWCM), Atul Dighe (CWCM), Dhiraj Rathod (CWCM), Udhav Shinde, Vijay Kulkarni, Jeevan Surde, Medha Thatte, Suvarna Thalekar, Harishchandra Sonawane, Madhukar Narsinge, Vikas Alvani, Shankar Patil, Waikar, P.K. Panchal, P.K. Munde, Subhas Kakuste

Delhi Santosh Roy (CWCM), V.K.S. Gautam (CWCM), Mathura Paswan (CWCM), Tarachand (CWCM), Shyam Kishore, Rajiv, Jagnarain, Shambhu Kumar, Rajesh (Jr), Ajay, Abhishek, Shankaran, Saurabh

Uttar Pradesh Anil Verma (CWCM), Hari Singh (CWCM), Premlata Pandey (CWCM), Babulal (CWCM), Dr. Kamal, Surendra, Ram Kishore, Rambharos, Uma Tiwary, Gayatri Vishwakarma, Amar Singh, Ramesh, Anantram Bajpayee Assam Subhas Sen (CWCM), Biren Kalita (CWCM), Bibek Das (CWCM), Samson Killing, Girish Kalita, Jiten Tanti, Atarjan Begum

Karnataka S. Balan (CWCM), Clifton D’ Rozario (CWCM), Shankar. V (CWCM), Appanna P.P., Prabhakaran, Nirmala, Maitreyi Krishnan Chattisgarh Brijendra Tiwari (CWCM), Bhimrao Bagde (CWCM), Rajendra Parganiha (CWCM), Shyamlal Sahu, J.P. Nair, Manoj Kosre

Gujarat Ranjan Ganguly (CWCM), Dashrath C. Sinhali, Laxmanbhai Patanwadia, Ramesh Katara, Ramachandra Kutty

Odisha Mahendra Parida (CWCM), Radhakant Sethi (CWCM), N.K. Mohanty (CWCM), Jayram Jena Uttarakhand Raja Bahuguna (CWCM), K.K. Bora (CWCM), Kamla Kunjwal, Kailash Pandey

Punjab Rajvindar Singh Rana (CWCM), Gulzar Singh Gurdaspur (CWCM), Ashwani Kumar Happy, Ranjit Singh Tamkot

Puduchery S. Balasubramanian (CWCM), Motilal, Palani, Purushotaman Chandigarh Satish Kumar (CWCM), Yagya Narayan, Eisha

Rajasthan Chandradeo Ola

Andhra Pradesh G. Satyanarayana

Telengana D. Rajesh Andaman & Nicobar N.K.P. Nair

Tripura Partho Karmakar

Railway N.N. Banerjee (CWCM), Ravi Sen (CWCM), Pradip Banerjee (CWCM), Rajesh Kumar, Kulwant Singh, Kamal Bhattacharya

Defence Benu Ghatak, S. Alageswaran, R. Mahenthiran

Power Sanjiv Chakrabarti

Telecom Pulak Ganguly, Satbir Sharmik

Bank Nirmal Ghosh

Health Ramkishan (CWCM)

Central Office Rajiv Dimri (CWCM), Swapan Mukherjee (CWCM), D.P. Bakshi (CWCM), Sarvraj

• (CWCM) Central Working Committee Member

Affiliated Unions

• All India Agrarian Labourers Association
• All India Construction Workers Federation
• Bengal Chatkal Mazdoor Federation
• Bunkar Mahasabha
• Rajasthan Nirman Mazdoor Sangathan
• Tamil Nadu Democratic Construction Labour Union
• Indo Japan Air Services Staff Union
• All India General Kamgar Union
• Building Workers Union
• DMRC CWU
• DTC Unity Centre
• Mahila Kamgar Union

• Khet Mazdoor Sabha

See also

• Indian Trade Unions