Electricity

Balanandan, E., Sen, Tapan, Maran, Murasoli

In This Issue: • Kerala High Court Assault: On Democratic Rights, Once Again • CITU Flays Cabinet Decision On Disinvestment • Editorial: External Vigilance, Ever Needed! • ILO In The Shadow Of Globalisation • Should Ministers Dole Out Freebies • Lessons Of May 11 Strike - E. Balanandan • Extending Favouritism To BMS • The PM And Trade Unions • Mass Signature Campaign By CITU: Text Of Petition To President Of India • CITU Contribution For Orissa Cyclone Relief • Economy On Rails! Heading Where? • Closure Of Six PSUs Condemned • Growing Concerns Over Agonising Globalisation • Freedom To Import: Road To Disaster - Tapan Sen • “We Knelt Down, Succumbed To Pressure, Signed On Dotted Lines?” - Murasoli Maran • Delhi: State Level Workshop On Organisation • Textile Minister On Satyam Committee Report • All India Convention Of Handloom Workers • Convention On Power Sector Reforms • Kerala Plantation Workers Conference • Mass Dharna At Kanpur • Rajasthan: Workshop On Unorganised Sector • CITU Campaign Materials Just Released • Some Important Decisions Of The ESI Corporation • Preparation For CITU All India Conference

1 Jul 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

Sen, Tapan

In This Issue: • Save The PSU, Save The Country: PSU Workers’ Strike On 2nd February • Editorial: The People On The Move • NPMO Call: Carry Forward The Surging Tide Of Struggles! • National Platform Of Mass Organisations: All India Convention, 20th January, 2000, New Delhi: Declaration • Action Programme • Strike By Port And Dock Workers • International Support • Strike Steered To Success • HMS Golden Jubilee Conference • Govt Slashes Down Interest Rates • UP Power Workers Strike • All Round Support And Solidarity • Economy On Rails ! Heading Where? • Direct Tax Arrears Mounted To Rs 41230 Crore In 97-98 The Poor Are The Tax Payers, The Rich Are The Defaulters • Who Is Holding The Country To Ransom ? - Tapan Sen • Without Comments: Backlash Against Globalisation • Dave Committee Presents Final Report • State Govt. Employees’ Conference • Murderous Attack On Union Leaders • Electricity Employees Federation Meeting • BTR Birth Anniversary In Patna • Raipur: Strike By FMRAI Members • Delhi Demo Against WTO Chief • JK Tyre Union Contributes To Orissa Relief • Major Airports Leased Out • Rajasthan And J&K Govt. Employees On Strike • CITU Protests Mauritius Bill. • Pak TU Federation Extends Solidarity • Oil Sector Strike • Without Comments: Democracy And Globalisation • Bravado At Seattle! And, Yeilding To US! • Pre-Budget Discussion: TUs Criticise Government Economic Policies

1 Feb 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. +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

Sen, Tapan, Pandhe, Pramila, Pandhe, M. K. +3

In This Issue: • Forward To 7th December Strike For A Genuine Pension Scheme • Public Sector More Investor Friendly! • Govt. Pension Scheme: Farcial Review, Paltry Relief, Indexation Denied Fradulent Pension Scheme -Who Abetted Imposition? • A Cruel Slap On Democratic Rights • 92nd Birthday of Com. B. T. Ranadive: Com. B.T.R. on His Early Days in T.U. - excerpts from the interview by Sri B.N. Datar • Electricity Employees & Engineers to strike on. 17.12.1997 • Central TUs Oppose Govt. Move On Price Index • In Japan Interacting With Working Women… - M. Rajeswari • Status Of Japanese Women Today • The Class Bias Of The Bourgeois Press - E. Balanandan • Expedite Action On Pf Related Issues • B.T.R. Memorial Trust: Unique Symbol Of Working Class Dedication • Contributions To B.T.R. Memorial • Successful Countrywide Strike By BPCL Workers • Fertilizer Workers Observed Countrwide Strike On 11.11. 1997 • November Revolution Day Observed In Durgapur • Bihar : TU Class • International Symposium On Health Safety And Environment In Iron And Steel Industry • 36th Conference Of AITUC • WFTU Asian Regional Seminar • General Council Meeting Of WFTU Asia Pacific Region • International Relations • CFTU Conference • Meeting Of Hindi Speaking States • Attention All Concerned, Please! • For United Action - interview with M. K. Pandhe

1 Dec 1997

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

Esakkimuthu, P., Pandhe, M. K., Krishnan, P. R. +4

In This Issue: • Editorial: Raise High The Banner Of October Revolution! • Trade Unions and Mass Organisations to Demonstrate Before Parliament on 15th December Against NEP • Coal Workers Urged To Fight Privatisation • Worship God And Violate Safety Rules • Supreme Court Comes Down Heavily on Contract Labour System – P. Esakkimuthu • CITU Condemns Revival of Enron Deal by Maharashtra Government • For International Struggle Against Multinationals And Unequal Trade Relations – M. K. Pandhe • Private Corporate Sector Profitability • Co-Ordination Committee Of Public Sector Trade Unions Met At Delhi • Around The States • Tamil Nadu: CITU Calls For United Struggles • Massive Rally of Handloom Workers in Madras • Massive Gujarat State Rally • 7th Conference Of All Orissa Transport Workers Federation • Massive Rally In Bihar • Asia-Pacific Regional Conference For Solidarity With Cuba : Call To Observe 27th November 1995 As Cuba Solidarity Day – P. R. Krishnan • Penny Wise, Pound Foolish - Swadesh Dev Roye • “Yes, We are All Members of CITU” - Vimal Ranadive • Tripura State Workshop On Child Labour – P. K. Ganguly • National Seminar On Social Clause - Ashok Vasishth • Report Of Standing Committee On Energy- III

1 Nov 1995

Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • New Menace Of Higher Taxation And Railway Fare • Forward To New Militant Struggles / Ranadive Addresses CITU General Council • Central Government Employees Prepare For Countrywide United Mass-Action • Railwaymen: National Convention Serves Ultimatum On Govt. • Deadlock In Electricity Wage Negotiations : All India Strike Planned • State Government Employees Prepare For Strike Of April 9 • Jute Tripartite And After • Legislators Propose But … / Legal Notes • Ceat Tyre Workers In Bombay On Indefinite Strike • Joint Trade Unions Council Formed In The Andamans • Goa / Coca Cola Workers Continue Struggle • Newsletters: Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu • West Bengal: CITU Supports Striking Doctors & Engineers • Other Regular Features

1 Apr 1974

Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • Editorial: The Calculated Inaction Of The Union Labour Ministry • The Second Conference of Kerala State Committee of CITU • Legal Victory of Railwaymen / Legal Notes • Resolutions Adopted At the All India Convention of Working People Against Wage Freeze • General Strike In Kerala Against Wage Freeze • Bhilai Convention Against Wage Freeze & For Bonus • RAILWAYMEN: N.C.C.R.S. Goes Ahead • Convention of Power Workers To Plan Bigger All India Struggle • Successful All India Strike By Provident Fund Employees • Succesful One-day Strike By W. Bengal Jute Workers • Workers Demand Take-over of Sick & Closed Plantations • Ramamurii’s Reply To AITUC’s Slander • Chile Day Observed By Workers • All Over India Workers Demand Take-over of Sick & Closed Plantations • Newsletters: Tamilnadu, Kerala, Maharashtra, Goa • Other Regular Features

1 Oct 1974

Nguyen Trong Con

In This Issue: • The Safety And Healthiness Of The Working Environment • Thirty years of Vietnamese Trade Unions – Nguyen Trong Con • Size And Distribution Of Land Holdings In India • How New China Keeps Commodity Prices Stable • Status of Women Workers • 32 Women Workers Retrenched in Ritz Continental Hotel • A Total Ban On Closures • Situation in Bihar Martin Railways • Kota Atomic Power Workers Face Retrenchment • Anti-Worker Move Of J. K. Rayon Management Foiled • Tamilnadu Newsletter • Death Toll Since Chasnala Disaster • CITU Appears Before Chasnala Court Of Enquiry • TUI Body Protests Against Victimization Of Hotel Workers • Other Regular Features

1 Mar 1976

In This Issue: • CITU Calls for Radical Improvement in P.F. Scheme • Total Strike Against Karnataka Bill • Modinagar Strike: Central Govt. Urged to Intervene • CITU Greets Assam Working Class • CITU Office Ransacked in Gauhati • Working Women Committee Call for Joint Action • West Bengal Newsletter • Water Transport Workers to Prepare for Movement • Reign of Terror in Border Road Organisation : CITU Complains to ILO • Fire in Sitaldasji Colliery : Life, Property in Peril • HSCL : Stalemate in Negotiations • Bonus Ordinance Below Expectations • Third Tamilnadu CITU Conference in September • Comrade Suhrid Mullick Chowdhury • Forward to General Council Meeting at Cannanore • Successful Kerala Bandh • Settle Demands of Bihar Powermen • Tripura Tea Workers Become Owners of Gardens • Railway News: Ministerial Staff Demonstrate before Parliament • CITU Opposes Modification in Palekar Recommendations • Jute Workers To Form All India Federation • CISF Jawans Get Restive • Seamen’ Struggle • Massive TU Demonstration in Bombay • Other Reports

1 Sept 1980

Nguyen Trong Con, Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • Surmount Difficulties With United Effort Of Workers • Salary And Bonus As Property | Legal Notes • The INTUC In Banking Industry • Thirty Years of Vietnamiese Trade Union | Nguyen Trong Con [Continued from previous issue] • P. F. Deposit Insurance For Railmen • CiTU-Andhra Pradesh Committee Meets • May Day Observed • Automation In Calcutta Electric Supply Company • Parliamentary Committee Endorses Plantation Workers Demands • West Bengal Tripartite Meet On Jute Industry • Take-over Of Sick Tea Gardens And The Workers • News From Sri Lanka • Former Chasnala Surveyor Says He Warned The IISCO Management • Other Regular Features

1 Jun 1976

In This Issue: • Against E.S.M.O. Protests Develop into Resistance. Strike in Kerala, West Bengal and Tripura • The CITU Congratulates People and Working Class of Kerala, West Bengal, Tripura • At the Call of Bombay Convention Workers March Ahead • National Campaign Committee To Intensify Campaign • Greetings to the People’s Republic of China • All India Joint Convention Of Working Women • Air hostess • Coal Workers To Fight Non-Implementation National Agreement • Army Officer Drives Through BRO Employees • Railway News: P. Ramamurti’s message to General Secretary AIRF • The Historic Parliament Session • Bankura District Beedi Workers’ Convention • Joint Morcha By Beedi Workers • Hyderabad Aluminium Industries Contract Workers On Strike • CITU Denounces War Against Angola • Economists Express Concern At IMF Loan • Orissa State Council Meets • General Council Resolutions: On Sixth Five Year Plan; On The Tasks Of Bombay Convention And Trade Union Unity; On U.S. Arming Of Pakistan; On Threatening War Danger And Struggle For Peace; On The Tenth World Trade Union Congress; On Unemployment; On Collapse Of Labour And Safety Legislations • First Conference Of Himachal Pradesh CITU • CITU Condemns Attack on Workers Families • Barbarous Lathi-Charge at Andaman-Nicobar on August 15 • Workers’ Struggle Force Government to Take over “Sick” Unit • Water Front Workers Prepare For All India Movement • Meeting of Construction & Sub-Contractors Workers • Engineering Workers Meeting • Struggle in J.K. Rayons and Kanpur Jute Udyog Continues • Steel Workers’ to Hold All India Convention • Electricity Workers Prepare For Joint Movement • Victory of CITU Union in Secret Ballot • Comrade A. Balasubramaniam

1 Oct 1981

In This Issue: • Resist Anti Labour Black Bills • Textile Workers Strike • Rajasthan Electricity Workers’ Strike • Joint Conventions in Public Sector Undertakings • June 4 Protest Day • Central TUs Boycott Productivity Meet • Central Trade Unions Complain Regarding Workers Delegation to I.L.O. Session • Birth Centenary of Georgi Dimitrov • CITU Denounces Israeli Aggression in Western Asia • Mines Development Workers on Struggle • BHEL Workers Prepare for All India Movement • Comrade Pankaj Acharya • Government Refuses to Fix Criteria for Minimum Wages • CITU Observes Foundation Day • All India Protest Day By Cement Workers • Coal Miners Prepare For Countrywide Movement • Railway News: Lock-out in Guntupalli Wagon Workshop S.C. Rly. • Whither Organisation of Safety in Indian Mines • Working Women: Retrograde “Understanding” by T.L.A. • Around The States: Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh • Youth Unemployment—Main Concern • News In Brief • International Struggles Against Repression, For Jobs and Against War

1 Jul 1982

Ganguly, P. K.

In This Issue: • Comrade Saroj Mukherjee • National Seminar Decides for Central Legislation for Construction Workers – P. K. Ganguly • 11th AILRSA Conference: A Conference of Hope, Confidence and Determination • 25th Biennial Conference of AIRMSA • Annual Conference of AIRCCA • Zonal LRSA Conference • Zonal Conference of Trains Clerks • Anganwadi Workers Carry Forward Struggles • Convention of LIC Women • Contract Workers in Electricity Court Arrest in Tamilnadu • Pre-Budget Meeting with Finance Minister • BEFI Reiterates Demand for Participation in Negotiations • Convention on Restructuring of Judicial System • Mini-Marathon for Communal Harmony at Kota • ‘A Mad Victimisation’ • March to Assembly by Tripura Handloom Weavers • Joint Seminar on DA • Kisan Sabha To Initiate Joint Action • Right to Work Convention at Durgapur • P. K. Ganguly Wins Case • South Africa: Forward to Dismantling of Apartheid

1 Mar 1990

Ranadive, B. T., Ranadive, Vimal, Padmanabhan, E.

In This Issue: • Forward to the Election Struggle – B. T. Ranadive • CITU Calls for Dethroning Rajiv Government • Govt of India Flayed for Non-Ratification of ILO Conventions • Electricity Workers to Step up Struggles • Working Committee Meeting of CITU, Kalyani, September 4-6, 1989 - Resolutions • On Unorganised Workers • CITU Co-ordination Committee of Public Sector Unions Calls for Stepping up Struggle against Privatisation • Steel Workers Demand Ouster of Rajiv Govt • 7th November 1989 – B. T. Ranadive • Clarion Call to World Working Women by 5th Conference at Sofia – Vimal Ranadive • Air Hostesses Achieve Victory • Tamilnadu State CITU’s Proposals on Labour in Draft Project Paper on Eighth Plan • Railwaymen’s Struggle: AIRF: 63rd Annual Convention • BEFI Calls for United Struggle by Bank Employees • Vietnamese Trade Union is Fully Sixty Years of Age • CITU Delegation visits Bulgaria – E. Padmanabhan

1 Nov 1989

Pandhe, M. K., Ghosh, Jayati, Mitra, Ashok +18

In This Issue: • Globalisation And Neo-Liberalism • World Capitalism To-Day Under Globalisation – M. K. Pandhe • Globalisation and national economic policy: Myths and responses - Jayati Ghosh • No Alternative? - Ashok Mitra • IMF And World Bank: Genesis, Functioning And Role Today - Arun Ghosh • International Trade, WTO and International Labour Standards: The Debate On Social Clause - Sukomal Sen • Globalisation - Myth And Reality – N. M. Sundaram • Erstwhile Socialist Countries And Globalisation - Chittabrata Majumdar • Without- Comments: Poor Have Become Poorer: UN Report • Liberalised Foreign Trade And Deindustrialisation In India – Dr. (Ms.) Anjali Kulkarni, Dr. (Ms.) Rucha Ghate • “Privatise And Perish". Genesis Of The Game Plan - Swadesh Dev Roye • The New Phase Of Global Capitalism – M. R. Appan • Seeds of Suicide : The Ecological and Human Costs of Globalisation of Agriculture - Dr. Vandana Shiva, Afsar H. Jafri • Globalisation - Labour And Quality Of Life - Jibon Roy • Globalisation and the Informal Sector – P. K. Ganguly • Globalisation and Liberalisation: Impact on Women and Children - Ranjana Nirula • Globalisation, Shipping Services And Seafarers – M. M. Lawrence • Banking Sector: Reforms or Ruination? Ashis Sen, Asit Das Gupta • On Power Policy - K. R. Unnithan • Civil Aviation: Pressures And Policy Options - R. Ramanathan • Globalisation and Telecom Industry – V. A. N. Namboodiri

1998-06(2) Supplement

Balanandan, E., Pandhe, M. K.

In This Issue: • Two Days Strike In Telecom Sector • CITU Working Committee Meeting Cancelled • Editorial: Will The Prime Minister Act? • 12 Dec: Electricity Employees Strike – E. Balanandan • President’s Address To The Nation • Labour Issues In Parliament: PSU Disinvestment: The Country On Auction! • Strikes And Lockouts Revealing Facts • Where Is The Country Heading Towards ? (Speech of Jibon Roy, MP in Rajya Sabha on 28-07-2000) • Comrade Naren Sen Is No More • Economy On Rails! Heading Where? • Rallyby Electricity Employees & Engineers • Bankmen On War-Path • Handloom Workers On To Struggle • Struggle By State Government Staff • NPCC Workers’ Union On Revival Plan • Wage Board For Newspaper Employees • Birla Textile Workers On Warpath • Bhopal: Industrial Workers’ Struggle • United Movement In Plantation Industry • Kanpur Textile Workers Demonstration • West Bengal CITU Calls For One Hour Strike • Parliament March By FCI Employees • Whither Port & Dock Settlement? – M. K. Pandhe • Nationwide PSU Strike Deferred • Massive Workers’ Rally At Delhi On 27th September

1 Sept 2000

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