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.
[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.
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 International Alliance of App-Based Transport Workers (IAATW) has recently released a report titled ‘South Asia Shadow Report on Platform Work Standards’ prepared on the basis of detailed survey and testimonials of app based workers of India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. The report divides the issues being faced by app-based workers into 5 broad categories, identifies violations and makes recommendations.
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.
LTUC (The Left Trade Union Centre) declared its affiliation to AICCTU through a massive public meeting at Ambattur on May Day 2025. Comrade Barathi, the State President of Uzhaippor Urimai Iyakkam (Workers’ Rights Movement), presided over the meeting. LTUC State President Comrade AS Kumar coordinated the meeting and rendered a poignant song written by one of the towering communist and the working class leaders of Tamil Nadu, comrade Jeeva.
CPI-ML Liberation MPs have continued to ask questions in the Parliament in the best interests of the working classes. In the ongoing Parliamentary session, a question was put to the Ministry of Labour by Com. Rajaram Singh regarding the Ayushman Bharat Scheme for Gig Workers. The question focused on census of gig workers, budgetary allocation, social security, etc. The response of the Government of India is given below.
The 23rd State Conference of Bihar State Non-Gazetted Employees Federation (Gope) representing Bihar Government employees and contractual-outsourced employees working in Government departments was held with great enthusiasm on 10–12 April 2025 at Town Hall, Buxar. The conference venue was dedicated to the militant comrade Krishna Prasad of Buxar District Federation, the Hall to the former State Secretary of the Federation, comrade Ramsevak Singh and the conference stage to the former District Secretary of Buxar, comrade Mohammad Kalam.
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.