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Sandip Chakraborty
National Convention for Working Women Resolves to Strengthen Organisation in New Sectors
24 May 2022
The Convention, in which delegates from various states participated noted how across the country, women were facing harassment in their workplaces, and that there was disparity in pay structures for…
Sandip Chakraborty
Fisherfolk Demand Social Security and Better Policies at AIFFWF Conference
22 May 2022
They also raised a proposal for the scrapping of the Sagarmala project, which, they asserted, will “spell doomsday for the entire fishing sector across the country”.
Ronak Chhabra
Explained: Forty Years Later, Looking Back at the First All India General Strike of 1982
18 Jan 2022
Arguably for the first time in independent India, the peasantry and the rural-urban workforce came together in a joint action to protest against the economic policies of the Central government.
Rabindra Nath Sinha
COVID-19 Lockdown: Plantations Abide by State Diktat, Resume Activity
15 Apr 2020
The Tocklai Tea Resesarch Institute at Jorhat in Assam of the Tea Research Association (TRA) has released a lockdown-specific special bulletin, which focused on several critical ‘dos’ after the…
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Modi Govt Diluting Labour Laws for Corporates: Tapan Sen
26 Sep 2019
The Narendra Modi-led BJP government’s Code on Social Security, 2019 is one of the four codes that propose to merge 44 labour laws.
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‘Class Orientation of Workers’ Movement Has to be Strengthened’
30 May 2019
May 30 marks 50 years since the foundation of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions. This year also sees hundred years of workers’ organised struggles in the form of the first central trade union.
Sumedha Pal
Modi Hatao, Mazdoor Bachao, 10 Central Trade Unions Adopt Charter of Demands
06 Mar 2019
The Central Trade Unions adopted a 15-point charter of demands, to include minimum wages, pensions, scrapping of fixed term employment and scrapping disinvestment.
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IL&FS Crisis: Thousands of Crores of PF Money at Risk, Says Report
14 Feb 2019
CITU General Secretary Tapan Sen has written to the Labour Minister urging him to share details of investment exposure of EPF funds with IL&FS.
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TU Amendment Bill: Another Bid by Modi to Cripple Trade Unions
07 Jan 2019
Unions vow to fight back the BJP-led NDA government’s designs to take away the right of workers to unionise and collectively bargain.