The corporate and big business have been continuously complaining about ‘Inspector Raj’, meaning that the government labour officers are unnecessarily interfering in labour disputes and also checking whether the labour laws are implemented or not. But the reality is something else. It is only in very rare cases that there is effective intervention, since the corporates and high level employers are able to influence the ruling parties and politicians and weaken the labour officers’ intervention.

Now the BJP, which was fully supported by gigantic contributions in the elections by the corporates, have started repaying them through the so called ‘labour reforms’, after forming the new government with massive majority. ‘Labour Reforms’ are being implemented which are not labour oriented by employer oriented. The right for inspection of the labour officers to find out whether labour laws are being implemented is curtailed, employers are being given the freedom for hire and fire etc. A majority of the unorganised workers are going to be out of the labour and social security benefits, if the amendments moved in the Parliament are passed.

The trade unions and the workforce are in real danger of losing what they have gained through decades of struggles. They realise the grim situation. That is why all the 11 Central Trade Unions have been jointly organising agitational programmes and strikes during the past five years. The National Convention of Workers held on 15 September 2014 in New Delhi has called for a National Protest Day on 5th December 2014 to expose and oppose the anti-worker reforms that is being imposed and also demanding acceptance of the 10 Point Charter of Demands raised by the Central Trade Unions. The entire workforce in the country should join these programmes being organised by the trade unions and the message should reach each and every worker in the country inspiring them and making them to join this great movement.