13 Wednesday Apr 2016
Posted in TU News - International, TUI of P&R, WFTU
The Grand March against unemployment Concluded with a big rally in Athens, Greece
The Grand March against unemployment in Greece which started last week, April 3, reached Athens yesterday, Sunday, April 10, where it was welcomed by the working class and the people of Athens with a large gathering and Concert organized by the Athens class unions and the National Union of Musicians.
Solidarity in March expressed a number of trade unions from around the world.
The March was a great success.
08 Friday Apr 2016
Posted by VAN NAMBOODIRI | Filed under AIBDPA - BSNL DOT Pensioners, TU News - International, TUI of P&R, TUI of Pensioners and Retirees, Uncategorized, WFTU
01 Friday Apr 2016
Posted in TU News - International, WFTU, WORLD NEWS
Nationwide strikes are being organised in France against the government’s move to increase the working hours from 35 hours upwards, and damaging the hard won worker protections. Flights, Railways, other transport services etc. are badly affected. The unions demanded that the bill moved in the Parliament in this connection should be withdrawn.
We express our solidarity and support to the strike and demand the French government to withdraw the bill which attacks the rights of the workers.
12 Saturday Mar 2016
Posted in CG Employees, General, TU News - India
Press reports indicate that the EPFO is examining whether the interest rate for 2015-16 can be increased from the declared 8.8%. The Central trade Unions have been demanding that it should be increased to 9.5%. Now it is understood that EPFO is considering of increasing the same to 8.9%. Our demand is that since there is a surplus of more than Rs.1,100 crore is available, 9.5% should be granted.
11 Friday Mar 2016
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Siemens, which is the German based engineering MNC, has stated that it will slash about 2,500 jobs, which means retrenchment of so much existing workers.
This is an indication of the worldwide reduction of work force. The MNCs in India have been retrenching the workers in a big way and struggles continue against the same.
05 Friday Feb 2016
Posted in TU News - International, WFTU, WORLD NEWS
Massive Protest against pension reforms that are part of Greece’s third international bailout.Athens, Feb 4 : Greece was hit today by a general strike against an unpopular pension overhaul that has rallied workers against the embattled government of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.
The 24-hour labour action has deprived the country of train and ferry services and will sideline dozens of flights.
Hospitals will operate on emergency footing, gas stations will remain closed and taxis have been pulled off the streets.
Lawyers and farmers are also participating in the walkout. The general strike, the third in as many months, is directed against government plans to lower the maximum pension to 2,300 euros (USD 2,500) a month from 2,700 euros currently and introduce a new minimum guaranteed basic pension of 384 euros.
The leftist administration of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras also wants to merge pension funds and increase social security contributions by both employers and staff.
The plan has been criticised by a wide array of professional classes, from lawyers and engineers to sailors and farmers.
The farmers have formed protest hubs at dozens of locations on Greece’s national highways, intermittently blocking traffic with tractors over the past two weeks.
On Tuesday the farmers blocked passage of freight trucks into Bulgaria and Turkey, causing long lines on the respective borders.
Greece must save 1.8 billion euros from state spending on pensions under a three-year bailout signed with the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund in July.
The Tsipras government has warned that the nation’s pension system will soon collapse without the reform, which is expected to be put before parliament for a vote later this month.
19 Saturday Dec 2015
Posted in TU News - India
Ranchi, Dec 18: The Centre of Trade Unions of India (CITU), All India Kishan Sabha and All India Agriculture Workers Union have decided to observe a nationwide ‘protest day’ on January 19 on their charter of demands.
“The trio decided to observe the day as ‘Virodh Diwas’ where labour force and farmers will hit the streets in support of their demands like genuine rates for agriculture produce, wages and other social security issues”, CITU General Secretary and MP Tapan Sen said here.
“The protest will also cover farmer suicides due to agriculture crisis and the existing 12-point charter of demands”, he told a press conference.
The unions in the coal sector were also discussing on their action plan to firm up protests against reported 10 per cent disinvestment in the sector by the Centre, he said.
Accusing the Centre of “taking” the 13 major ports in the country on the path of corporatisation, Sen said all the federations in the ports had written to the Centre against any repeal in the existing Port Trust Act as it was integral with the security of the country.
The trade unions in ‘Anganwadi’ sector would stage demonstration sometime in February near the Parliament against cut in allocations in welfare projects.
The ongoing four-day General Council meeting of the CITU is also deliberating to include the unemployed as about 40 per cent of the participation marked on September 2 strike had been outside union affiliations. (Ganashakti)
01 Tuesday Dec 2015
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Lakhs of tea garden workers and employees went on a historic strike in North Bengal defying the tea garden owners and the TMC’s fatwa not to join the strike convened by the joint forum of the tea garden employees including the CITU led Chia Kaman Majdoor Union. The strike call was fully successful in the over 260 tea gardens out of a total of 276 tea gardens spread across Darjeeling hills, terai and dooars. Baring a few handful few which clocked partial shutdown as to the presence of TMC ‘s union all the other tea gardens remained closed as CITU State Secretary Dipak Dasgupta rushed to North Bengal to hand over economic support to families of famished tea garden workers of the state. At the call of the major trade unions all the other unions of various industrial sectors too demonstrated in the state in support of the Strike call given by the tea sector trade Unions. It can be recalled that yesterday at the call of the Joint forum of tea garden workers, the tea workers observed relay hunger strike at 44 places in the region. The strike, convened by a Joint Forum of 24 different tea workers unions, comes against the backdrop of the death of 22 workers in the tea gardens of north Bengal since May 2015 due to malnutrition and diseases caused by hunger.
The W. Bengal Government should immediately act for discussion and settlement of the issues of the tea garden workers.
05 Thursday Nov 2015
Posted in TU News - India
New Delhi, November 5: The National Convention of anganwadi workers and helpers ‘to Save ICDS’ under the banner of the Samyukta Morcha of Anganwadi Employees’ Federations decided to March to Parliament on their long pending demands of regularisation, minimum wages and pension and against the drastic cut in the budget 2015-16 and the handing over of anganwadi centres to corporates.
The convention was presided over by a presidium consisting of Uma Netam(AICCTU), Usha Saini(AITUC), Pushpa Dalal (AIUTUC), Neelima MAitra(CITU), Shalini Singh (HMS) and Lata Yadav (INTUC).
The declaration was placed by A R Sindhu(CITU) and seconded by B V Vijayalakshmi (AITUC). The convention was addressed by Shashi Yadav, Suvarna Talekar (AICCTU), Amarjeet Kaur, Madhuri Kshirsagar (AITUC), Achintya Sinha, Kamalesh Chahal (AIUTUC), Dr. K Hemalata, Usharani (CITU), M A Patil, Champaben Parmar (HMS) and Lata Yadav (INTUC).
The convention decided to organise
1. Joint state level conventions in December – January
2. March to Parliament in February 2016 during the budget session of the Parliament.
31 Saturday Oct 2015
Posted in TU News - International, WFTU
On 12th November 2015 workers in Greece as peer the call of their united trade union PAME against the anti-worker policies of the Government. The call given by PAME is given below:
November 12th we are going to strike!
Everyone in the path of strike!
We Go Massively activist National General Strike!
· We say no to the destruction of social security
· No house in the hands of bankers! Block auctions!
· No more tax-flight! Down with taxes!
· No to layoffs! We demand immediate action for the protection of the unemployed!
· Not to salaries hungry! No minimum wage worker, or without a collective contract
Social Security!
· Collect all losses NOW! Recovery of wages and pensions to their previous,
higher levels! Cancelling all the anti worker, anti-social security laws!
· Fight against privatization, against the delivery of public wealth to the company
groups. Against the consequences that these developments mean, who can be against
workers with the intensification of exploitation and layoffs, with higher prices for
Popular families in electricity, water, transport, communications, the necessary products.
We completely supports and extends solidarity to the struggle of Greek Workers.
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