All India Central Council of Trade Unions
Web Page At: www.aicctu.org
[AICCTU submitted a memorandum on 29 April 2025 to the Minister of Labour and Employment demanding removal of wage ceiling for ESI and guarantee universal access to social security. Some Major points of the memorandum are given below.]
We are writing to you in regard to the exclusionary criteria in Employees' State Insurance Scheme (ESIS) resulting in lakhs of workers being excluded from the Scheme.
As part of the present government’s attempts to dilute all existing legal rights of the working class and clear the path for employers to refuse workers their legal rights, the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has proposed major changes in the enforcement mechanism of EPF.
The following joint statement was issued to the press after meeting of the Joint Platform of Central Trade Unions and Independent Sectoral Federations/Associations on 15th May 2025.
The fourth conference (BGM – Biennial General Meeting) of EREU (Eastern Railway Employees Union) was successfully held on April 20, 2025, at Comrade D.N. Das Nagar, Andal, Asansol Division, Eastern Railway. On this occasion, the stage was dedicated to Comrade Chandan Kumar and the auditorium to Comrade Mrityunjay Majhi.
While Prime Minister Narendra Modi was delivering an election speech in Madhubani, Bihar on April 24 (just two days after a terrorist attack on tourists in Pahalgam, Kashmir, when the entire nation was in mourning) and shedding crocodile tears, ASHA workers and facilitators in the state were expressing their anger on the streets of Bihar. ASHA workers in the state have been struggling for the past six months to receive their rightful remuneration.
The representatives of the Joint Action Committee of All Central Trade Unions and Independent Federations of Tamil Nadu submitted a memorandum to express serious concerns regarding the functioning of the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) and the current status of pension disbursal under the EPS-95 scheme.
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has projected a 48% probability that global temperatures will surpass 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels in at least one year between 2022 and 2026, with this likelihood rising to 66% for the period 2023-2027. Additionally, it has warned that 2025 is expected to be among the three hottest years on record.
The May Day 2025 is a day to resolve to wage a veritable counter war against the war of Modi government on the working class of the country and to make the 20 May all India Strike a great success. It is not only a strike of the working class but a strike in shoulder to shoulder with the farmers and agricultural labourers. Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) is also joining the strike to fight against the anti-farmer, pro-corporate, agricultural market reforms and with a call to organise protests on 20 May.
A massive protest was organized on March 30 at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi, by the Indian Railway Employees Federation (IREF), affiliated to AICCTU, and the Front Against NPS in Railways (FANPSR), demanding the restoration of the Old Pension Scheme (OPS) and against the New Pension Scheme (NPS) and the Unified Pension Scheme (UPS). A gathering of hundreds of protesting railway employees was addressed by Sudama Prasad, Member of Parliament and member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Railways, and Rajiv Dimri, the all India General Secretary of AICCTU.
14 April has been a holiday for decades now. However, the rise in mass consciousness about the Phule-Ambedkar tradition and its contemporary significance has made Babasaheb’s birthday more significant than ever. It is a day on which we commemorate his many struggles and draw lessons and inspirations from his work.