Varada Rajan, W. R.

Pandhe, M. K., Sen, Tapan, Varada Rajan, W. R.

In This Issue: • International TU Meeting Against Neo-liberalism and Globalisation – M. K. Pandhe • Message from the Embassy of the Democratic People’s of Korea on Golden Jublee of Indian Independence • Against Retrograde Govt, Pension Scheme: Workers' March To Parliament On 2nd September • Great Setback For The Govt. Of India: Supreme Court Upholds Stay On Govt. Pension Scheme • Japan: The Bubble Shock And The Aftermath - Tapan Sen • Trade Unions Demand Withdrawal Of Sicab'97 • Message from Council of Trade Union Federation of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, greeting CITU on the Golden Jubilee of Indian Independance • In Parliament: MPs Protest Non-Payment Of Workers’ Statutory Dues; Walk Out Over Finance Minister’s Evasive Reply • Kerala High Court Judgement On Bandh: Judicial Activism In Wrong Direction – W. R. Varada Rajan • Fifth Pay Commission. Report: Employees Firm On Strike Decision • Reports & Events: Massive Industrial Strike In Delhi And Adjoining Areas • Strike In Up • Phillipines Massive Strike In Transport Sector • BHEL Workers Stage Dharna • Brutal Atrocities On Textile Workers At Kathua (J&K) Police Rampage In Workers’ Colony • West Bengal: Strike In Howrah Engineering Units • Hotel Workers’ Procession Attacked By Employer • Government Forced To Withdraw Insurance Regulatory Authority Bill • Sick Fertilizer Units • Govt. Jettisons Revival Decision MPs Oppose Closure Move • Revival Of IDPL: Govt. Decision • Contract Workers At Airport Struggle For Regularisation • NPCC Workers Stage Dharna Before Parliament • HAL: Contract Workers Organise to fight • Himachal Pradesh: 50th Anniversary Of Independence Celebrated • Message From The World Federation Of Trade Unions, Prague, • Greeting CITU On Golden Jubilee Of Indian Independence • Situation In Korean Peninsula

1 Sept 1997

Balanandan, E., Pandhe, M. K., Varada Rajan, W. R. +3

In This Issue: • 50 Years of Democracy in India – E. Balanandan • Mother Teresa • Standing Labour Committee Meeting: An Exercise In Futility – M. K. Pandhe • CITU Delegation Visit to China – W. R. Varada Rajan • Com. Harisadhan Mitra • China : Acftu Overview • Com. N. Vasudevan • Com. M. Farooqui • India’s Freedom Struggle: Revolutionary Role Of Working Class - Sukomal Sen • Against Fraudulent Govt Pension Scheme: Massive Parliament March Of Workers; All India Strike On 17th December • CPSTU Meet In New Delhi: Public Sector Workers On To A Nationwide Strike Struggle • Accord On Pay Commission - Kanai Banerjee • The Economic Reforms And Working Women In Asia – Dr. K. Hemalatha • Govt. Notifications And Ordinances • Maharashtra: Struggle Of 40,000 Powerloom Workers In Ichalkaraji • Maharashtra CITU To Launch State Wide Campaigns • Tamilnadu: Statewide Strike In Unorganised Sector • Tamilnadu Sugar Workers Conference • Jhansi: BHEL Workers Observe Martyrdom Day: Late Com. Bundiwal Remembered • Nationwide Strike By Electricity Workers • Martyrs Day Observed In Dugda Coal Washery, Bokaro • 3 Day’s Bank Strike In December • Fertilizer Workers To Strike On 11.11.1997 • NTC Mills: Govt. Goes Back On Turn Around Strategy • Bihar: Rally Against Petrol-Price Hike • Vizag Inferno

1 Oct 1997

Balanandan, E., Pandhe, M. K., Varada Rajan, W. R. +1

In This Issue: • CITU Working Committee Meet At Shimla: Unite & Rally working class to defeat capitalist onslaught • CITU Working Committee Meeting, Shimla, 25-28 October, 1997: Presidential Address By E. Balanandan • Maladies Of ESI Scheme • Threat Of Communal And Casteist Forces • Working Women • Cuba Advancing Despite U.S. Blockade – M. K. Pandhe • Welcome Initiative Against Sexual Harassment – W. R. Varada Rajan • Remove Bonus Act Ceilings: Central TUs Demand Ordinance • Nationwide Coal Miners' Strike Against Privatisation – M. K. Pandhe • Com. Kangsari Haldar • Com. Chitta Basu • ‘Navratna - Mini Ratna’: “Selling Family Silver To Pay Butler” - Swadesh Dev Roye • Forward To Bigger And United Struggle – M. K. Pandhe • Activities In Hindi Speaking States • BEML: An Unwarranted Venture • CPSU defaulting statutory dues • Service, Labour & Administrative Law Digest • On Verification

1 Nov 1997

Pandhe, M. K., Sen, Tapan, Ganguly, P. K. +1

In This Issue: • Japanese Peace Delegation Visits India • Defeat This Fanaticism! • NPMO To Intensify Struggle • Com Z A Ahmed • II National Commission on Labour: Move To Usher In Deregulated Labour Market – W. R. Varada Rajan • Comrade K M Haribhat • Overhaul Economic Policy Reforms: CITU • Pre Budget Consultations, 1999-2000: CITU Memorandum • “Is There A Govt. Functioning Here At All?”: BMS • IRA Bill: Halt This Madness • Sexual Harassment Is A Violation Of Fundamental Right: Supreme Court Verdict • Com. Gopal Basu • To Save Coal Industry PSUs Coal Miners’ Prepare For Movement – M. K. Pandhe • Amartya Sen Honoured - Tapan Sen • Haryana: Unprecedented Repression • BHEL Hyderabad : INTUC, BMS Defeated • 8th Conference Of AP CITU • West Bengal: Organising New Area • Goa: Repression & Terror On Mine Workers • Com Radhika Banerjee • J&K State Govt Employees’ 18 Days’ Strike • Com. Naresh Dasgupta • Karnataka: Panchayat Employees’ Meet • Revive NPCC In National Interest • Construction PSUs Facing Serious Crisis • Delhi: State CITU Meets • Tamil Nadu CITU Intensifies Campaign • Manipur Employees On Strike • CITU Denounces Cabinet Decisions • U. S. Barbarism – P. K. Ganguly • International Seminar : World Energy Scenario On The Eve Of 21st Century • Day Of The Fat Wallet: Spiffy Growth In Top Income Bracket - Rich Get Richer In Post-Reforms India, Lower Income Crowd Thins

1 Feb 1999

Varada Rajan, W. R., Arjun, N. S., Dakshi, Ardhendu +1

In This Issue: • UN Must Save World From Warfare And Under-Development (Speech by Fidel Castro Ruz, at the Millennium Summit, United Nations, on September 6, 2000) • Editorial: A Swadeshi’s Videsh Yatra • 6th All India Conference Of Working Women • Working Women: Organisational Issues & Tasks • Andhra Pradesh: Reforms By The Bullet – W. R. Varda Rajan & N. S. Arjun • Massive Delhi Rally On 27th September • Anti Union Repression Worldwide • Without Comments: Hypocrisy Thy Name Is World Bank! • Economy On Rails! Heading Where? • Public Sector Workers Decide On Future Actions • Attacking Poverty! World Bank Style – A. Dakshi • CITU Protests Coal Settlement • Country Wide Movement By Textile Workers • Kanpur: Textiles Convention • Tamilnadu CITU State Conference • Bank Employees Fight Privatisation/VRS • Privatisation Of Marine Engineering Institute Opposed • Massive Rally By FMRAI • “Revive Winter Sports Project” • Pension Case In Supreme Court • Wage-Agreement For BHEL Employees • NPCC Revival Urged • Ichalkaranji Powerloom Workers Repression • Telecom: Struggle Against Corporatisation • Verdict On Hartal - Ninan Koshy

1 Oct 2000

Pandhe, M. K., Balanandan, E., Majumdar, Chittabrata +3

In This Issue: • On Enforcement, amendment of Minimum wages Act, Enactment of Law on Agricultural Labourers: Parliament Committee Lashes Out At Govt • Editorial: As The Millennium Unfolds • NPMO Sounds The Bugle: Oppose Retrograde Govt. Policies! Prepare for nationwide struggle! • CPSTU Call: Nationwide Struggles By PSU Workers • Public Sector Employees’ National Referendum 11-1-2000 • Economy On Rails ! Heading Where? • Govt Capitulating To MNC’s Muscle Flexing • Human Rights And Working Women • Energy Is A Human Right - Ardhendu Dakshi • Labour Issues In Parliament: Second Labour Commission: Design To Impose Slavery On Labour • Labour Issues In Parliament: On Mines And Minerals Bill • Disinvestment: Get The Money At Any Cost! • Sale Of GAIL Shares Loot On Public Wealth • Assault On PF Interest Also? • “Gaida’s Mother!” – W. R. Varada Rajan • Seattle: WTO Meet Fails • International Conference Of Oil & Gas Workers • Protest Rally In Port Blair • NPCC Union Delegation Meets PM • Successful Strike By Merind Fieldworkers • FDC Field Workers On Indefinite Strike • T.N. CITU Plans Campaign And Struggles • Indefinite Strike By Port & Dock Workers • Construction Workers’ Federation Meeting • Prime Minister Urged To Revive IDPL • Trade Union Class For Anganwadi Employees • IT Employees’ Conference • Zonal Conference Of Peerless Employees • CITU-ILO All India Training Programme • Yet Another Strike By Insurance Employees • Campaign On Working Women’s Demands • Public Sector Workers Demonstration • Airport Workers Demonstration • State Level Convention Of Haryana CITU • Calcutta: Electricity Employees’ Rally • CII Recipe For Closure Of 3 Banks Condemned • Supreme Court Ruling: "EPF Scheme Member A Consumer" • 95th Birth Anniversary of B. T. Ranadive

1 Jan 2000

Balanandan, E., Varada Rajan, W. R., Dakshi, Ardhendu +1

In This Issue: • Centre Of Indian Trade Unons, General Council Meeting, Kozhikode (Calicut), Kerala, • 20-22, April 2000: Notice • Editorial: No More It Is Hidden! • SLC Session Another Futile Exercise • The UP Electricity Employees Strike - E. Balanandan • Dave Committee Report: Investment Centric Prescriptions – W. R. Varada Rajan • CITU On First Report • The World Bank Inspiration • SAIL - Restructuring Or Demolition ? - Ardhendu Dakshi • Total Strike In Salem Steel • The President Speaks Out • NFL To Go To 'Strategic Buyer’ - Swadesh Dev Roye • Magnificent Public Sector Strike • Com. N. J. Iyer • Forward To 9th March • Pension Case • Campaigns And Struggles In Tamilnadu • Tripura Plantation Union Conference • Chevalla: CITU Fights Police Brutality • CITU Win In Chittivalasa Jute Mills • INTUC: Metal Workers’ Convention • Real Face Of PEPSICO • Insurance Employees Conference • SICA: Repeal Move Denounced • Dunlop: Chhabaria’s Game Exposed • UB Employees To Fight Job Losses • MP: Retrenchement Move Condemned • Employees’ Pension Scheme • A Different Hijacking • March 8 International Women's Day

1 Mar 2000

Pandhe, M. K., Varada Rajan, W. R., Ganguly, P. K.

In This Issue: • Centre Of Indian Trade Unions, Tenth All India Conference, 27-31 December 2000: Notice • Editorial: On To The Tenth Conference • The Magnificient Strike Of 6 Lakh Coal Miners – M. K. Pandhe • CITU Tenth Conference: Three Decades Long Journey – W. R.Varada Rajan • Without Comments: FDI Inward Stock • The New Textile Policy – P. K. Ganguly • Comrade Prasanta Dasgupta • Comrade Naresh Pal • Comrade Mangala Hotgi • Bank Privatisation Against People’s Interest • The Mill Lands Conundrum • 7th Conference of Madhya Pradesh CITU • Syndicate Bank Staff Union Conference • Conference Of Haryana State CITU • 10th Conference Of Rajasthan CITU • Private Telecom Companies • Thousands Court Arrest In Tamilnadu • Govt. Neglects Corporatised BSNL • Will Tamil Nadu Govt. Save Salem Steel? • Maharashtra CITU Conference • Bihar & Jharkhand State Committees Formed • Massive Rally Of Anganwadi Employees • ZENROREN-ACFTU Friendship Move

1 Dec 2000

Balanandan, E., Pandhe, M. K., Varada Rajan, W. R. +2

In This Issue: • CITU General Council Meets At Chennai • Com. Bimal Singha • Com P G K Krishnan • Capitalism : Enemy Of Open Society - E. Balanandan • Comrade K. L. Malabade • Interim Wage Increase For Coal Workers • The New Situation, Dangers And Tasks Ahead – M. K. Pandhe • Pseudo Swadeshi Stands Exposed – W. R. Varada Rajan • Capital Misery • CITU Highlights Pressing Issues Of Labour • Union Labour Minister called a meeting of Central Trade Unions and Employers organisations. The points made by M.K. Pandhe, General Secretary, CITU, at the meeting • Pre-budget consultation with Finance Minister: CITU Flays Fund-Bank Dictated Economic Policies • Towards A Two Days Nation Wide Strike. Public Sector Workers Plan Campaign & Agitations • Take Lead, For Successful Implementation: CITU Call • What Ails Employees' State Insurance Scheme? How To Remedy? - Kali Ghosh • WFTU Memorandum To WTO • Historic Struggle Of Delhi Nurses – A. R. Sindhu • Vajpayee Govt. On Contract Awarding Spree; CITU Expresses Serious Concern • ZENROREN’s May Day Message To CITU • 3 Days-Strike By FMRAI • Major Win For Maritime Union Of Australia

1 Jun 1998

Pandhe, M. K., Varada Rajan, W. R., Ganguly, P. K. +3

In This Issue: • The Midterm Poll And Working Class – M. K. Pandhe • 34th Session Of Indian Labour Conference - A Hoax To The Unorganised Sector Workers – P. K. Ganguly • State of Unorganised Sector Workers: Grim Reality Admitted • Elections, Big Business And Saffron Scribes – W. R. Varada Rajan • Pact Of Financial Services In WTO: American Invasion In Third World Market • The Supreme Court Verdict on Bandh – P. K. Ganguly • The CITU deeply mourns the passing away of Com. Tridib Chowdhury • The CITU strongly denounces the dastardly attack with the intention to murder on Com. Gulab Singh • Closure Of Gas Victims’ Rehabilitation Centres Deprive Victim Women Of Their Livelihood - Zulekha Zabin • Against SC Verdict On Bandh • South Korea: Severe Fall Out Of IMF Package - Tapan Sen • Agricultural Workers: Health Risks • On A Visit To Sri Lanka – A. K. Padmanabhan • Bihar: Electricity Workers Agitate • Coal Ash and Parcel Workers on the move • Successful Bandh Against Bathe Killings in Bihar • lISCO: Steel Workers Demonstrate • Western Hemisphere Workers’ Conference: NAFTA Privatisation And Deregulation • Pension: Settlement of Claims • Workmen Compensation Act • Paternity Leave for Govt Employees • Strike Hits Israel • National Platform Of Mass Organisation • Asia Pacific Graphical Federation • ILO Proposal for a Declaration on Fundamental Rights • Maharashtra : Protest Against Repression • PF: Government Notification • Foundation Stone For BTR Bhavan Laid

1 Jan 1998

Pandhe, M. K., Varada Rajan, W. R., Bhawnani, Nirmala L. +1

In This Issue: • Editorial: 77th Anniversary of October Revolution • CITU’s Message to Zenroren • Russian Working Class Will Rise Again! – M. K. Pandhe • Coal Workers Prepare for Countrywide Agitation • Port and Dock workers for Nationwide Industrial Action • Trade Unions Protest at the Delay in Settlement of pending issues of workers • Joint Letter to Labour Minister • Bank Employees Sign Memorandum of Understanding • MNCs in Power Sector: N. K. P. Salve’s Baseless Tirade against BHEL • Cultural "Jatha" against New Economic – Industrial Policy and Malhotra Committee • 17th State Council meeting of West Bengal • Book Review: BATA : Multinational Myster(y) • Com. Satdev Sharma • BIFR: Sickness Eventually Catches Up • Regional Labour Ministers’ Conference • Challenges Ahead In Employee Relations And Human Resource Management – W. R. Varada Rajan, Secretary, CITU, Tamilnadu • Bonus: A Myth for Majority – Nirmala L. Bhawnani • The Productivity Movement: Union Perspective - S. Dev Roye

1 Nov 1994

Pandhe, M. K., Dev Roye, Swadesh, Varada Rajan, W. R. +2

In This Issue: • Pro-Capital, anti-People, MNC--Friendly Budget – M. K. Pandhe • CPSTU Call • Bengal Strike • Coal Workers To Strike • Central TUs Call For Intense Struggle • Com. Ajit Sarkar • NPMO Calls • Electricity Tariff Regulatory Commission: Whom It Serves? - Swadesh Dev Roye • Hidden Agenda Explodes At Pokhran – W. R. Varada Rajan • Reopening Of Dunlop India Ltd • Save Hindustan Fertiliser • Payment Of Gratuities (Amendment) Bill • On Amendments To P.F. Act • Overdue Wages For HSCL Workers • West Bengal: Industrial Relations—Recent Trends & Issues - Santhi Ghatak • Resist Globalisation Of Capital. Move Against Capitalist System Itself - Chittabrata Majumdar • May Day’98 In The Philippines: Workers Celebrate Militant Struggle • Anganwadi Women Plan For Struggle • MP Mine Worker Killed In Police Firing • ASSAM: CITU On The Move • Coalmine Disaster: Enquiry Abandoned • IDPL Workers Court Arrests • Textile Rally On 15.7.98 • Maruti Sell Out Condemned • Kanpur: Struggle Against Closures • NBCC Workers Denied Wages • May Day In Tamil Nadu • Working Women • Kailash Prasad Felicitated • Visaka Steel Plant • Water Transport Federation • Bank Employees On Struggle • Transport Federation • Retirement Age Move Opposed • Insurance Privatisation Opposed • CITU Foundation day • Endangering Lives At Sea • Implement Dprk-Us Accord: CITU • End Inhuman Sanctions Against Iraq: CITU

1 Jul 1998

Varada Rajan, W. R., Pandhe, M. K., Dev Roye, Swadesh +2

In This Issue: • September 2 : Delhi Chalo! Workers March To Parliament Against The Fradulent Pension Scheme • Good News for The Workers against Government Pension Scheme • Golden Jubllee Of Indian Tedependence - W. R. Varada Rajan • Com. A. Nallasivan • Working Class And 50 Years Of Indian Independence – M. K. Pandhe • Sick Industries Rally To Block The Black Bill - Swadesh Dev Roye • Hanoi Conference For Solidarity With Cuba – P. R. Krishnan • The Paramountary Of TU Rights - Saroj Chowdhury • National Platform Of Mass Organisations Call For Countrywide Actions Against Economic Reforms • The Decisions Of The CITU Secretariat • In The International Arena: Whither Russia; UK: Human Cost Of Industrial Injuries; South Africa: Employment Bill & COSATU’s stand; New TU lnternational Founded; Repression in Bolivia • Reports & Events: Tamilnadu News Letter: Transport Workers Go on Protest Strike; Sep 9 Unorganised Sector Strike; Protest Rallies And Dharnas • Save IISCO Convention Demands Modernisation • Calcutta: Rally Protests Stopping Construction Work By Metro • Water Front Federation • Air Hostesses Raise Banner Of Revolt • Trade Union Convention at Port Blair • Bank Employees and Officers to Intensify Struggle • Textile Workers Rally • BHEL Workers Demonstrate Countrywide • PM Assures Time Bound Negotiation On All Demands: Coal Workers Strike Deferred • CITU Activities In Hindi Speaking States Reviewed

1 Aug 1997

Pandhe, M. K., Varada Rajan, W. R., Ravindranath, K. N.

In This Issue: • Centre Of Indian Trade Unions Working Committee Meeting Jaipur, 13-16 November 1999: Notice • Editorial: 13th Lok Sabha And After • Liberalisation Boosts Billionaires In India – M. K. Pandhe • Billionaires Galore Despite Recession! • Challenges Emerging In Post-Polls Situation – W. R. Varada Rajan • Accidents Or Man Made Calamities? • Barbarians At The Gate! • Economy On Rails! Heading Where ? • Present Phase Of The Global Economy – K. N. Ravindranath • WTO Style Liberalisation, Leading Where? • Dear Power - Lyla Bavadam In Mumbai • Without Comments: Congress-BJP Convergence On Economic Reforms Manifestoes Ignore Labour Interests • Myth Of Falling Inflation Rate ! • West Bengal: Bonus Demand Day Observed • Tamil Nadu: Wage Settlement In Sugar Industry • Himachal Pradesh: Statewide Rallies • The Life Ambobai Leads… • HIV/AIDS And Workers • International Meet Demands Reconstruction Efforts In Yugoslavia • BJP Govt’s Anti-Employee Measures • Finance Ministry Calls For Austerity Drive • Seaport Infrastructure In India. Is Privatisation A Panacea? • Sangh Parivar On Indian Womanhood • Perpetuating Inequality Globally • Rio-De-Jeneiro Meet Against Globalisation • Pension Case In Supreme Court

1 Oct 1999

Mukherjee, Dipankar, Balanandan, E., Pandhe, M. K. +3

In This Issue: • The Steal Deal - Dipankar Mukherjee • Advocacy Of Ordinance Raj Reprehensible! • NATO Offensive In Yugoslavia: A Threat To Sovereignty Of Nations – E. Balanandan • Economy In Decline, Workers In Misery – M. K. Pandhe • Elections And Tasks Of The Working Class • FDI Investment In Asia Decline • Labour Legislations: Alarming Picture Of Absolute Anarchy - Tapan Sen • Repulse Attack On Collective Bargaining - Swadesh Dev Roye • Globalisation Or Economic Subjugation? – W. R. Varada Rajan • Xv World Congress: On Occupational Safety And Health • T N: Welfare Scheme For Unorganised Workers • WB: Unique Scheme To Help Workers • CITU Leaders Murdered In Assam Teagarden • Kerala: Cashew Workers’ Struggle • Ap: Leaf-Plate Making Women Revolt • Rourkela: Workers’ Oppose Sale Of PSU Assets • Delhi: Rally By FCI Workers • GIC Move For Productivity Linked Wages • Bihar: Successful Strike By Govt Staff • Kanpur: Ramasrey Memorial Inaugurated • Regional Rural Bank Employees’ Conference • May Day Celebration In TN • CPSTU Meets • May Day In Maharashtra • Move To Privatise Indian Airlines Condemned • World Energy Meet In France • Globalisation And Migration • Vizag: CITU Workers Join Struggle For Land

1 Jun 1999

Varada Rajan, W. R., Dev Roye, Swadesh

In This Issue: • Red Salute To Comrade Benoy Chowdhury • Editorial: Stop Not Till The Disastrous Policies Are Reversed • Massive Countrywide Strike On May 11th • NPMO Congratulates People • General Council Meeting at Kozhikode: CITU Charters Further Campaign • Intensive Campaign Programme • Pension Case In Supreme Court • Indian Labour Conference: A Sterile Debating Exercise On Labour Issues – W. R. Varada Rajan • CITU's Criticism Of Govt. Inaction • CITU Comments On Industrial Sickness • Industrial Sickness: The BIFR Views • Labour Issues In Parliament: Bharat Gold Mines: Govt. Ultimatum On VRS • “Unambiguous Policy” To Throw Away PSU Shares? • Minimum Age For Employment • On Sale Of PSU Assets • The Lot Of Pensioners/ Retirees • Sell-Out Of SAIL! • On Draft Electricity Bill, 2000: Shift To Anti-People Power Policy - Swadesh Dev Roye • Electricity Federation Conference • Voltas Employees Organise Conventions • May Day Celebrated In Tamilnadu • NPMO Rally In Port Blair • IDPL Workers Demonstrate • CITU Appeal For Drought Releif • Coal Workers Score A Major Win • Trike By Newspaper Employees • Passing Of Major Ports Bill Denounced • Affiliation Fees : Attention State Committees • Anganwadi Workers March To Parliament • CITU Greetings To DYFI 6th Conference

1 Jun 2000

Ghosh, Kali, Dakshi, Ardhendu, Varada Rajan, W. R. +1

In This Issue: • Com Sukhdev Singh • Yugoslavian Embassy Thanks CITU • To The People For A New Mandate! • CITU Manifesto For May Day 1999 • 35th Session Of ILC: Workers’ Side Protests ‘Tailking Shop’ Exercise • CITU Highlights Workers’ Resentment • Industrial Sickness And Employment Generation: Strident Criticism Of 35 Session Of ILC: Govt Indifference • Alternative Approach Outlined Before ILC: "Review Policy Of Mindless Privatisation And Liberalisation" • Crisis Of Indian Railways And The Status Paper • Employees State Insurance Scheme (ESI) - Need For Speedy Overhauling - Kali Ghosh & Ardhendu Dakshi • ‘Oasis’: Code Name For Milking Workers’ Funds To Quench The Greed Of Big Business – W. R. Varada Rajan • Diversion of PF/Pension Funds to Private Sector Mutual Fund flayed • Southern Initiative Against Globalisation • Nationwide Strike Of Coal Miners On 11-12 May – M. K. Pandhe • CITU Himachal Pradesh Decides Future Action • Steel Workers Federation Conference • Newspaper Employees Strike • All India Locomen Meet • Construction Workers’ Conference • Rajasthan: CITU Workshop On Organisation • HP: Anganwadi Workers • Committee Of Public Sector Trade Unions Notice • Tamilnadu: CITU - ILO Training Camp • Demands Of SAIL Contract Workers • High Court Reinstates Contract Workers • International Demand For Halt To Liberalisation, Review Of WTO Role • Supreme Court Upholds Contract Workers’ Right To Regular Job • Denial Of Subsistence Allowance, Inhuman: SC

1 May 1999