On 21st November, 2025 the Union Government issued notifications bringing into force four Labour Codes - the Code on Wages, 2019, the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020,(OSH Code) the Social Security Code, 2020; and the Industrial Relations Code, 2020 - that had been passed between 2019 and 2021. The four Labour Codes, presented as an anti-colonial “labour reform”, essentially constitute a reorientation of the State’s role in mediating class relations in the country.

[This is a greeting message of AICCTU delivered by comrade Clifton D’ Rozario, All India Vice President, to the 18th All India Conference of CITU]

Dear comrades of the presidium, colleagues of the central trade unions, and delegates of the 18th All India Conference of CITU; on behalf of the All India Central Council of Trade Unions (AICCTU), I extend my revolutionary greetings to you all. 

After more than 160 days of relentless struggle, on January 12 the sanitation workers of Chennai, organised under UUI-LTUC–AICCTU, concluded their fight on a positive note with the DMK government agreeing to their core demands. The workers will continue to be paid directly by the Chennai Corporation, successfully defeating privatisation attempts. Minister P.K. Sekar Babu, along with Mayor R. Priya, visited the LTUC office to end the fast by offering juice to the fasting workers.

[An in-depth analysis of the Maharashtra Public Security Act, 2024 by Samarthan Advocacy Group was carried in a Marathi magazine “Lal Nishan” in May 2025. Following is the translation] 

The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them
— Gene Roddenberry

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Though working people constitute a vast majority of the country, the issues of the working class and labour legislation is often neglected in the public imagination. The slow and steady erosion of strong labour law protections through anti-worker Courts and the breakdown of several strong trade unions and movements have gone hand-in-hand with increasing precarity and uncertainty in the lives of workers. Mainstream media no longer sees labour issues as worthy of regular coverage.

Madrasi Camp, Taimur Nagar, Okhla Vihar to Wazirpur – 

Demanding Regularisation and Against Outsourcing 

Chennai corporation is divided into 20 zones and sanitation workers are employed under National Urban Livelihood Mission (NULM). The Left Trade Union Centre (LTUC, recently affiliated to AICCTU) has been working among NULM workers for years and took up their cause for minimum wages, regularisation and social dignity. 

On 27th May 2025, the Karnataka Platform-Based Gig Workers (Social Security and Welfare) Ordinance, 2025 was promulgated by the Governor of Karnataka and published in the Extraordinary Gazette, making it the second state in India to pass a legislation in the interests of gig and platform workers. 
 

The coastal town of Honnavar, Karnataka, has recently become a battleground between the local fisherfolk and a state-backed private port company called Honnavar Ports Private Limited (HPPL). On February 24th, this year, thousands of men, women, children, and elders staged a sit-in protest over the proposed construction of a private port at Kasarkod beach, in Honnavar against HPPL. The sit-in was met with severe police brutality where over 100 protestors were arrested.