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Workers will Storm Delhi on 9-11 November 2017

09 Wednesday Aug 2017

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Lakhs of workers from all parts of the country will be sitting on Maha Dharna for 3 days from 9th to 11th November 2017 in Delhi against the anti-people, anti-worker policies of the Central Government and on the major demands of the people and the working class. An Indefinite strike will follow, the date of which will be decided later. These are the main declarations of the massive convention of workers held at New  Delhi on 8th August, as per the call of the Central Trade Unions.

The Workers Convention was presided over by K.Hemalatha (CITU), Ashok Singh (INTUC), Ramendra Kumar (ATUC), S.N.Pathak (HMS), Sathyawan Singh (AIIUTUC), Latha (SEWA), Uday Bhatt (AICCTU), V.Subburamn (LPF) and Shatrujih Singh (UTUC).

The Convention was addressed and guidelines given by Tapan Sen (CITU), Amarjit Kaur (AITUC), Sanjeeva Reddy (INTUC),Harbhajan Singh (HMS),Shankar Saha (AIUTUC), Manali (SEWA), Rajeev Dimri (AICCTU), M.Shanmukhan (LPF) and N.K.Premachandran (UTUC).

All central trade unions, except BMS, participated in the convention. After BJP  government has come in to power, BMS has been keeping away from the common programmes, for reasons well known to them.

In addition to the central trade unions, confederations/federations/unions/associations of workers from various sectors like Central/state governments, public sector, private sector etc. participated. The Talkatora Stadium where the convention was held was overflowing with delegates and hundreds had to stand outside the stadium.

Massive propaganda is to be organised well before the Maha Dharna at New Delhi in all centres jointly by the trade unions. It will really be a storming of the India’s capital city, Delhi.

Revolutionary Greetings on CITU Day!

30 Tuesday May 2017

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Com.B.T.Ranadive, first President of CITU

Today, 30th May 2017, is the 47th Foundation Day Anniversary of Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), the militant organisation of the workers in India. It was formed on 30th May 1970 under the leadership of Coms. B.T.Ranadive and P.Ramamurti, the first President and General Secretary of CITU.

During the last five decades, CITU had organised several struggles, gave solidarity and support to many more. It was always in the forefront of united struggles of the central trade unions. In all the 17 united all India strikes organised against the anti-worker neo-liberal policies of the Congress and BJP governments, it took a pivotal role. CITU was the one union which participated in all these strikes. CITU is affiliated to WFTU.

CITU gave a new direction to the working class struggles. It gave all support to the struggles of the CG Employees as also BSNL workers. The advice and guidance of Coms. E.Balanandan, M.K.Pandhe, Chittabrata Mazumdar, Mohammed Amin, A.K.Padmanabhan, Tapan Sen, Hemalatha and other CITU leaders encouraged and inspired the BSNL employees in their forward march.

Revolutionary Greetings to CITU, its leaders and workers on the Foundation Day Anniversary  of CITU!

One more attack on the workers – Govt. proposes reduction in EPF Contribution of employers

27 Saturday May 2017

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The Labour Ministry has directed the EPFO to take necessary action to reduce the employers’ contribution to the EPF from 12% to 10%. The directive is only to favour the employers. In fact, what the EPFO suggested to government was to reduce the employees’contribution from 12% to 10% and keep the 12% as it is for employer. But the government wanted to favour employers by reducing their contribution. Realising that there will be a backlash from the people, the media and the workers, government has now directed that both the contribution should be reduced to !0%. What this means is that the EPF contribution will be reduced by 4% which will be a big loss to the workers.

CITU and other Central trade Unions have condemned this anti-worker move of the Government. The government should be compelled to back-tract from this anti-labour decision.

Support Maruti Workers Struggle for Justice – CITU

22 Wednesday Mar 2017

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Press Statement issued by CITU

The Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) expresses its deep distress and anguish at the sentence of life to 13 workers and of 5 years jail to another four workers of Maruti Suzuki in connection with the violence in the Manesar plant of Maruti in 2012.

The violence in 2012 in which a general manager of the factory was killed was the handiwork of hired musclemen of Maruti Suzuki management meant to create the ground for crushing the unions. Despite no way being responsible for the incident, the workers have been convicted on the basis of concocted evidence manufactured by the state administration, police and employer nexus in a shameless abuse of power. More than 500 workers were thrown out of their jobs and over 200 workers were thrown into jail for up to four and half years. 117 of them had to be acquitted.

However the heinous designs of the Haryana state administration capitalist league to crush the trade union movement in the Gurgaon industrial area could not be achieved fully. Over one lakh workers in the area boycotted lunch on 16th March in spontaneous expression of protest. The workers of Maruti and its ancillaries/ subsidiaries in Gurgaon/ Manesar went on total strike for one hour strike in the evening shift of 18th March. Workers’ unions in Gurgaon industrial area are planning united actions in solidarity with the victimised workers including filing of appeal against the conviction.

CITU denounces the ugly game of the state and capital nexus with the same vehemence with which it denounced the violence of 2012 and congratulates the workers for their immediate and united response. CITU asserts that the trade union movement will not accept and cannot be cowed down with such nefarious acts by the government employer nexus.

CITU expresses its solidarity with the struggle of the Maruti workers and the initiative of the industrial workers unions of Gurgaon in support of the Maruti workers. It calls upon all its state committees, all its affiliated unions and the entire trade union movement irrespective of affiliations to come forward in solidarity with the Maruti workers struggle for justice including the legal battle.

Issued by:
K. Hemalata
President

CITU protests anti-worker decision of Government on EPF

10 Saturday Dec 2016

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CITU has issued the following statement:
New Delhi, December 10: The Centre of Indian Trade Unions denounced yet another retrograde decision of the Narendra Modi Govt to benefit the employers’ class at the cost of workers, while making obscene noise on its so called pro-people postures and zumlas.
It is reported that in the name of boosting employment generation and exports, Union Cabinet has given approval to certain unilateral changes in labour laws and Employees Provident Fund scheme which will only benefit the employers’ class and business houses and harm the workers.
The Cabinet has decided  to provide for additional 3.67% share of employer’s contribution to EPF in the garment-apparel sector in addition to 8.33% granted by its previous announcement couple of months ago. Thus the Govt is going to bear the entire amount of the employers’ contribution obligation to EPF to the tune of 12% in the concerned sectors. (PIB, 7-12-2016)
Simultaneously the Cabinet is now proposing to make EPF contribution of the employees optional for those earning less than Rs15000/- per month, not only for the garment-apparel sectors but for the entire made-ups sector in manufacturing, on the plea of increasing the take-home pay of the employees.  And in this case, the Govt is not going to pay for the employees’ contribution in EPF in line with what they have done for employers’ contribution.
These changes are being made without any consultation with Trade Unions.  Whole exercise of the government seems to be to finally dismantle the social security schemes available to workers.
Media reports also say that the amendments to EPF schemes and labour laws are being approved even without  the knowledge of Labour Department.  This has been going on for some time.  Even the decision taken under the Chairmanship of Labour Minister in tripartite bodies was changed by the Finance Ministry and workers had to go on struggle to revise these decisions.
CITU registers its strong protest over the unilateral decision being made by the government in the labour related matters and demands withdrawal of all such decisions and to hold proper consultations with the Trade Unions on all labour matters.

Make 2nd September 2016 Strike successful – CPI(M)

01 Thursday Sep 2016

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New Delhi, September 1: The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement:

MAKE SEPTEMBER 2 STRIKE SUCCESSFUL

The CPI(M) extends its support to the call of the central trade unions for a general strike on September 2.

The Polit Bureau calls upon all its Party units and cadres to make the strike successful.

Haryana Government imposes ESMA on striking electricity workers – Protest by CITU

25 Saturday Jun 2016

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New Delhi, Jun 25 :The Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) today criticised Haryana government for imposing Essential Services Maintenance Act on Haryana Electricity Board workers, who called a two-day strike to protest against privatisation.

“CITU condemns the imposition of the draconian Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) on the employees of Haryana State Electricity Board by the BJP-led government in Haryana,” CITU General Secretary Tapen Sen said in a statement.

According to the statement, CITU extends total support and solidarity to the employees of Haryana state electricity board who have been compelled to go on a strike against the decision of the state government to privatise 23 electricity

distribution subdivisions with the highest revenue potential.

CITU opposes strategic sale of PSUs

15 Wednesday Jun 2016

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CITU Condemns Retrograde Move to Sell Out
Public Sector Companies With Huge Asset

New Delhi, June 15: The Centre of Indian Trade Unions condemns the retrograde move by the Govt of India to fast track selling out the Central Public Sector Enterprises with its huge asset base to private hands. With this dubious intent, the NITI Ayog has been made to submit a list of CPSEs to Prime Minister’s office recommending fast track sale of those companies on various pretext.

It is a matter of alarm that in order to facilitate sale-out of the CPSEs, the NITI Ayog has been made to recommend further capital investment from national exchequer in some of those CPSEs like Air India, FACT , Chennai Petroleum, Madras Fertilisers etc, not just to revamp their operational efficiency, but to make them saleable to private hands.

The history of such strategic sale of around nine CPSEs, like IPCL, BALCO etc during the previous NDA regime reveals that each of those CPSEs with their huge asset-base were sold at prices less than one fourth of their real asset value at then market prices, that too, virtually to a single bidder, as observed by CAG at that material time. The Narendra Modi Govt at present has become more desperate in selling out huge national assets in the chosen CPSEs to its private corporate constituency, both domestic and foreign, at a throw away price, much to the detriment of national interest. Two years’ BJP regime could not create nor facilitate any new establishments for productive employment generation in any significant scale except making loud noises through media-hype and creating statistical illusions on GDP growth; on the other hand the Govt is desperately moving ahead for mega-sale of huge national assets through sale of CPSEs.

The NITI Ayog while making such disastrous recommendations along with the list of CPSEs for sale, went to the extent of arguing that “non-priority sector CPSE, once revived, could always be considered for strategic disinvestment”. Could devility go further ? Can Airlines, petroleum companies, fertilizer producing units be construed as “non-priority sector” in our country by any stretch of imagination ? But a Govt in a hurry to establish its corporate loyalty and also so called “reforms-credential” can certainly go to such devilish extent, totally unconcerned of national interest.

Such retrograde move of frittering away national assets in country’s CPSEs must be combated and resisted by the working class movement of the country. The united platform of country’s trade union movement comprising almost all the trade unions and federations of the country has already decided to go in for countrywide general strike on 2nd September 2016 demanding, inter alia, the withdrawal of such disastrous move of sale-out of national assets and CPSEs, in order to defend the working people as well as to defend the national economy.

The CITU while calling upon the working people and trade unions in the country irrespective of affiliations to prepare for staging the countrywide General Strike on 2nd September 2016 in a massive way, also calls for organizing united protest in workplaces and industrial centres against such retrograde move of privatization by the BJP Govt.

Modi Government continues its attack on PSUs

15 Wednesday Jun 2016

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The Modi Government has decided to privatise many government corporations and to sell up to 51% to private in some other corporations. It seems that as per this decision, the BJP government will dispose almost all the central PSUs to the private in the name of garnering funds for the government.

Thousands of acres of land in various metro cities owned by these corporations are going to be handed over to the private companies from meagre amounts. Existing employees of these PSUs will lose jobs, once these are transferred to private.

The Central trade unions and the public sector unions have to confront this all round attack and defeat the government conspiracy. Otherwise, there will be no central PSUs by about one decade.

Greetings on the 46th Birth Anniversary of CITU

29 Sunday May 2016

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Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), one of the biggest Central trade unions in India, is celebrating its 46th birth anniversary on 30th May 2016.

CITU was formed on 30th May 1970. Its first President was Com.B.T.Ranadive and General Secretary  Com. P.Ramamurthy, veteran leaders of the Indian Trade union movement. It has got many unions affiliated to it. CITU is an affiliate of WFTU.

Our Revolutionary Greetings to CITU, its leaders and workers!