Delhi

Declaration

We, the Joint Platform of Ten Central Trade Unions, independent Sectoral Federations and Associations are meeting today in Delhi to deliberate on the everworsening situation in the country on all fronts. This convention is taking place in a very critical situation, when the union government, in order to contain and weaken the trade unions and place the Indian Working Class Movement disarmed in face of the onslaught of capital, have come out with the four labour codes.

Madrasi Camp, Taimur Nagar, Okhla Vihar to Wazirpur – 

Climate and labour injustice in urban India are the product of the same framework of capitalist exploitation. Yet India’s law and policy approaches to the entangled issue of environmental and labour rights has consistently fallen short of clear committments.

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.

Hold Indian Labour Conference
Stop Privatisation of Public Sector Undertakings and Public Services

The following statement was issued to the press by the platform of Central Trade Unions and Independent sectoral federations and associations on 18th March 2025.

[The concluding speech delivered by comrade Shankar V, re-elected President of AICCTU in its 11th All India Conference held at Delhi on 24 – 26 Feb. 2025]

The year 2025 is set to witness an all comprehensive attack on the working class by the Modi government. Implementation of Labour Codes, indiscriminate privatisation of public and government sectors and to employ three new criminal acts to suppress the dissent are the strategy of Modi.

This Land is Our Land! We, The People of India!

Comrade Dipankar Bhattacharya

(24.02.2025, Talkatora Stadium)

Birsa Munda gave the slogan, "Abua Dishum, Abua Raj," our right, our rule in our own country: this is the same voice that resonated in 1857, in 1949, when the constitution was passed in the country, and in 1950 when the republic was established.

The 11th AICCTU National Conference – A Success!

Open Session

On January 5, a new union was born: the Maruti Suzuki Non-permanent Workers Sangh, marking a unique event in the history of working class struggles and the trade union movement.

The union was an initiative by dismissed permanent workers of Maruti Suzuki an act of solidarity by those who had no jobs, or incomes and more importantly, without the support of major trade unions.

I was present on the occasion as an observer.

Sucheta De

[Construction Workers Bearing the Economic Burden of the Toxic Air Pollution Created by Pro-Rich, Pro-Corporate Policy Regime: Excerpts from Delhi]