Insurance

Ranadive, B. T., Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • New Dangers! – B. T. Ranadive • Before discharging workmen enquiry is a mus. An Important Decision on Industrial Law | Legal Notes • LIC employees’ historic victory in Supreme Court • Government betrays port and dock workers. All India indefinite strike from Jan. 5 • CITU demands acceptance of public sector employees’ demands • Long March of Maharashtra peasants braves police repression • 5th Conference of Punjab CITU • Rise of agricultural workers membership of AIKS • Crisis of capitalism and the Working Class • Andaman and Nicobar workers prepare for struggle • All India Coal Workers Convention at Raniganj • Fifth Conference on Safety in Mines • Railway News: Railwaymen intensify struggle • Comrade Alexei Kosygin • Over half world’s working women are in Asia but they have a long road to equality • Fraternal TU leaders visit CITU office • News in Brief • Bihar bandh : Massive response • Indian seamen demand end of discriminatory wages

1 Jan 1981

In This Issue: • Strike in Public Sector on 11 March. Countrywide Demonstrations on 3 March • CITU Condemns LIC Ordinance • CITU Opposes Increase In Rail Tariff • Locomen’s Struggle Withdrawn, But Fighting Spirit Not Quelled • Continuous Strike in Hindustan Cables • Pfizer Workers Force Multinational Company for Settlement • Plight of Woman Construction Workers • Slate Pencil Industry in Mandasaur. For Survival Workers Forced to Choose Work Which Kills • Railway Budget : To Subsidise a Corrupt, Inefficient and Anti-Working Class Bureuacracy • West Bengal Newsletter • For the First Time Pay Scales Recommended for Jute Workers • Indian Seamen Win Their Just Demands • News in Brief • Growing Influence of Lal Jhanda Union in Delhi • Assam CITU Meets • AINEF to Fight Back Wage Freeze Policy

1 Mar 1981

Ranadive, B. T.

In This Issue: • Results of Elections — B. T. Ranadive • Annual Conference of Kilburn Workers’ Union • Insurance Employees’ Convention • Trade Unions and Wage Negotiations in Public Sector • Efforts for United Struggle of Central Government Employees • RBI Employees Continue Struggle • Cement Workers Preparing for Countrywide Movement • CITU Demands Probe into Death of Working Woman • Solidarity with Textile Workers • Railway News: Supreme Court Orders Relief To Victimised Locomen • May Day Celebrations • Diabolical Plan to Scuttle Trade Union Rights • Struggles Around the States: Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Tripura, Rajasthan • International Struggles Against Repression and for Peace

1 Jun 1982

In This Issue: • January 19 The Red Letter Day • Move to Split LIC : A Motive to Split the Workers • Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Central Rules, 46 • International Conference on Economic and Social Aspects of Disarmament • AUCCTU Greets CITU on Republic Day • Comrade Malor Jaipal Singh • Comrade Jyotirmoy Bosu • Successful All India Steel Workers Convention • Management Hirelings Unleash Reign of Terror in M.P. Collieries • Supreme Court Judgment on LIC Hits at Collective Bargaining • CTU’s Force ECL To Sign Agreement • Central Advisory Board Meeting On Limestone And Dolomite Labour Welfare Fund • Against Automation: A. I. Move By Newspaper Employees • West Bengal Newsletter: BCMU Conference Calls for Strike Action • All India Convention of HSCL Unions • On Rural Unorganised Labour

1 Feb 1982

In This Issue: • Port and Dock Workers Wage Issue Settled • Anti-Working Class Policies of the Damodar Valley Corporation • LIC Employees Win 15 p.c. Bonus • Kashmir Sheep and Wool Workers Organise • First All India Convention of ESIS Doctors • Denounce the Death Sentence of Kim Dae Jung • 35th Anniversary of The WFTU • Annual Conference of the Bengal Chatkal Mazdoor Union • Flag March by Mounted Police in BHEL Premises in Bhopal • Massive Demonstration by Workers and Employees in Patna • National Fertiliser Workers Win Demands • Port and Dock Workers’ Strike Deferred to November 28 • Working Committee of the M_P. State CITU Meets • Supreme Court Judgement on Gratuity : Monthly Wages Earned for 26 Working Days | Working Class and Trade Unions Must Note • West Bengal Newsletter • Delhi CITU Protests against Price Rise, Police Repression • Fertiliser Workers’ Strike on Dece. 16 • Railway News • CITU Condemns Murderous Attack on Workers in Assam • Increased Stipend to Apprentices Recommended • All India Steel Coordination Committee Meets • HSCL Unions Plan Solidarity Action for Kudremukh Workers • OBITUARY Comrade Dinesh Mazumdar, Comrade P.C. Joshi

1 Dec 1980

Choudhary, Saroj

In This Issue: • Secretariat Calls for Massive Participation in Convention against Communalism on September 19 • Bank, Insurance Employees Demand Pension as Third Retiremental Benefit • TUs Demand Reinstatement of Bangladesh Biman Workmen by Air India • CITU Condemns Lathi Charge on AIIMS Employees and Docors • Retrenched Employees of Food Corporation to be Reinstated • Secretariat Communique: CITU Denounces US Military Build up in the Gulf Region • On Reservations for Backward Classes • Right to Work: A Powerful United Struggle in the Offing • Massive Rally by CITU at Patna • Powerful United Protest Against Super-301 – Saroj Chaudhuri • General Council Resolutions (Kanpur July 21-23, 1990) • NPCC Management Compelled to Negotiate with CITU Union • Agreement in NBCC • North Zonal Convention of AIPWF • Railwaymen’s Struggle: Will the Assurance be Fulfilled • Massive Dharna by Haryana CITU Workers • Annual Convention of HSCL Co-ordination Committee • Joint Movement in ONGC • Dharna by ICF Workers • Massive Dharna Against IDPL • Hunger Strike by Hindustan Aeronautics Workers • Victory of CITU in Salem Steel • Women’s Struggle: Prime Minister's Assurance to Anganwadi Delegation • The National Commission on Women : A New Opening in the Struggle for Equal Status – Malini Bhattacharya • DPRK’s Proposols For Peaceful Reunification of Korea

1 Sept 1990

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

Mukherjee, Samar, Ranadive, B. T., Chakrabarty, Nrisingha

In This Issue: • March to Parliament—April 18 • Walk Out Strike by LIC Employees • Meeting on Production in Steel Industry • Jute Strike Enters Third Month • Indefinite Strike by Port & Dock Workers • Hollow Claims in General Budget Thoroughly Exposed • Defence Employees to go on Indefinite Strike • Bank Employees Struggle • Bengal Women Donate Blood • Demands Day by State Govt. Employees • Samar Mukherjee on President's Address • The Peace Convention – B. T. Ranadive • CITU’s Greetings to BMS Conference • CITU Secretariat Meeting • Railwaymen Express Their Resentment • Around The States: Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Bihar • 15th Congress of Cuban Trade Unions— Nrisingha Chakraborty • Secret Circular by B.P.E. • International Struggles

1 Apr 1984

Ranadive, B. T., Ganguly, P. K.

In This Issue: • Comrade P. Sundarayya • Working Committee Meeting Of CITU, Trivandrum, May 31-June 2, 1985: Presidential Address— B. T. Ranadive • Protest by Central Govt. Employees • Second Conference of SWFI • Railwaymen’s Struggle: Revoke Illegal Break in Service: LRSA • Leader Valve Workers Struggle • Seminar on Bhopal Gas Tragedy • All India Day Against Lockout, Closure, Retrenchment and Denotification • Conference of Insurance Employees • Meeting on Workers’ Participation in Management • Around The States: Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Orissa, Delhi, Maharashtra • Women’s Struggle: Tamilnadu Co-ordination Committee Meets • Victory Over Fascism: Celebration of the 40th Anniversary in Indla • International Trade Union Conference: On 40th Anniversary of Victory Over Fascism — P.K. Ganguly • Comrade Saradish Roy • CITU Extends Support to Sau Paulo Metal Workers Strike • CITU’s Response to Appeal by Bulgarian Trade Union • CITU’s Solidarity to British Coalminers • Contribution to British Coalminers’ Struggle • International Struggles

1 Jun 1985

Ranadive, B. T., Ganguly, P. K.

In This Issue: • The Elections and After – B. T. Ranadive • CITU For Movement on Bhopal Holocaust • The Holocaust In Bhopal. Stranglehold of Multinationals in India – P. K. Ganguly • CITU Condemns Violation of Safety Rules • Protest Demonstrations Against Union Carbide • CITU Memorandum on Workmen of Inland Water Ways • National Workshop On Productivity and Trade Unions • The AIRF Annual Convention • Bihar State CITU Meeting • LIC Management Adamant Against Settlement • SAIL Management Backs Out from Commitments • Violation of ILO Standards by SAIL • Trade Union School at Ghaziabad • Delhi Cong(I) Bosses Conspire Against Public Sector for Selfish Gains • Around The States: Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Meghalaya • International Struggles

1 Jan 1985

Ranadive, B. T., Ranadive, Vimal, Guha, Amitava

In This Issue: • The Trade Unions and Assembly Elections – B. T. Ranadive • CITU Secretariat Decisions: Observe Bhopal Day on February 4 • The Bhopal Holocaust: Government's Attempt to Suppress Facts • ILO Session On Food and Drinks Industries Committee • Gramin Bank Employees on Strike • Rail Strike in England • Greetings From AUCCTU • Women Workers in Plantation Industry – Vimal Ranadive • Stop These Atrocities on Women • Interim Order of the Supreme Court in Anjora Case • Scope of Herb Based Drug Industry - Amitava Guha • CITU In The Eyes Of A Trade Unionist Of England • Railwaymen’s Struggle: Railwaymen to Decide Future Course: AIREC • Around The States: Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi • Pharmacutical Workers on Strike Struggle • Employees’ State Insurance (Amendment) Act, 1984 • The Workmen’s Compensation (Amendment) Act, 1984 • International Struggles

1 Feb 1985

Ranadive, B. T., Chakraborty Nripen, Ranadive, Vimal +3

In This Issue: • May Day 1982 – B. T. Ranadive • Hungarian TU Delegation Visits CITU Office • May Day Manifesto of the CITU—1982 • Tamil Nadu State Committee Meets • Rally Against Imperialist War Danger – Nripen Chakraborty, Chief Minister, Govt. of Tripura • War and Women – Vimala Ranadive • Problems of Construction and Contract Labour – Nrisingha Chakrabarty • Land Reforms in West Bengal – Benoy Chowdhury, Minister-in-charge, Land and Land Reforms Deptt., Government of West Bengal • The Year of Productivity—An Attack on Werkers – M. K. Pandhe • National Compaign Committee Calls For All India Protest Day on June 4 • Successful Maharashtra Bundh Textile Strike Enters Fourth Month • Left Front Government And People: Achievements of Left-Front Govt in West Bengal (Small Scale and Cottage Industries) • P. K. Moitra Acquitted • West Bengal Assembly Demands Nationalisation Of Jute Industry • J.K. Jute Workers’ Strike Enters Third Month • Engineering Workers Move For Need Based Minimum Wage • Anti Working Class Industrial Disputes (Amendment) Bill Introduced in Lok Sabha • Reserve Bank Employees’ Strike • Govt’s Labour Policy Assailed • News Paper Employees’ Struggle Against Automation • CITU’s Memorandum on Sick Industrial Undertakings • Railway News: Rail Budget Criticised • National Convention Oppose LIC Split • Stop Delinking Calcutta-Haldia Ports • Kanpur Annapurna Biscuit Workers on Indefinite Strike • Kerala L.D.F.—Pledged to Serve the People • Hissar — Escalation of Attacks on CITU Activists • BHEL Production Policies Assailed • Successful Strike by Rajasthan Government Employees • Cement Workers to Fight Cement Barons—INTUC Conspiracy • AGB of BHEL Workers’ Union • Teleprinters Workers to Fight Productivity Linked Wage • Income Tax Employees Attacked by Anti-socials • Barbarous Lathi Charge on Workers at Ujjain • TUs Oppose DA Freeze by HSCL Management • CITU Supports Textile Workers’ Strike in Paraguay • Attack on CITU Union • Steel Workers to Fight Productivity Linked Wages • Attempts to Curtail ESI-Benefit • News In Brief

1 May 1982

Ranadive, B. T., Sharma, Vijender, Chakraborty Nripen +7

In This Issue: • Defend The Left-Led Governments – B. T. Ranadive • May Day Manifesto of the CITU-1981 • Prepare for the Struggles Ahead. On the Occasion of the May Day, Nripen Chakraborty, Chief Minister, Tripura, has sent the following Message • May Day : Origin and Significance – Vijender Sharma • Tripura Left Front Govt. Marches Ahead – Nripen Chakraborty • “People Source of Strength of Tripura LF Government” – Dasarath Deb • Tripura: Progress For The Poor – D. D. Deb Roy • One Year of Left Democratic Front Government of Kerala – E. K. Nayanar • Main Features of Kerala Budget • Public Distribution System: Kerala Experience • Labour and Employment Policy of Left Front Govt. of West Bengal - Krishnapada Ghosh, Minister for Labour • For An Alternative Policy — Chittabrata Majumdar, Minister for Small Scale Industries • Progressive Education Policy of the Left Front Govt. of West Bengal —Partha De, Minister for Secondary & Primary Education • Land Reforms Measures in West Bengal • West Bengal Newsletter: Orgy of Murder and Arson. Latest Weapon in the Toppling Game • Punishment Without Reason | Legal Notes - Arun Prokas Chatterjee • 26 March Kisan Rally. Working Class Solidarity with the Peasants • Contract Workers’ Struggle Continues : Numerous Workers Arrested • All India Convention Against Multinationals in Drug Industry • Agitation of Medical and Sales Representatives • Central Govt’s Anti-People Drug Policy – J. S. Majumdar • World Conferenee Against Transnationals in Pharmaceutical Industry • Successful General Strike in Delhi. CITU congratulates workers • NGOs Conference at Port Blair • All India Coal Workers Federation Formed • CITU Participates in May Day Celebrations in Moscow and Havana • All India TU Convention Against Price Rise and Anti-Labour Policies • Energy Minister Blows His Own Trumpet • BHEL Unions Demand Reconstitution of Joint Forum • CITU Supports the United Struggle of LIC Employees • CITU Demands U.P. Chief Minister’s Intervention in Raza Textile Strike • Railway News: Repression on Railwaymen Continues • Increasing Repression on Workers in Haryana. Firing on the Workers of Gopichand Textile Mills in Sirsa

1 May 1981

Ranadive, B. T., Mukherjee, Samar, Pandhe, M. K.

In This Issue: • Goodwill Delegation of CITU to China • Working Committee Meeting of CITU, Jamshedpur, November 30-December 2, 1983, Presidential Speech—B. T. Ranadive • Asian Metal Workers’ Seminar • Call Of CITU Working Committee: Step Up Peace Struggles, Fight Against Lockouts, Closures, Price-rise • General Secretary's Report (Abridged Form)—Samar Mukherjee • Resolutions: On Danger of War and Struggle for Peace, On Sri Lanka, On Movement for Restoration of Democracy in Pakistan, On Bangladesh, On Price Rise, On Growing Lockouts, On Closures, Industrial Sickness & Denotification, On Struggle Against Divisive Forces, On Struggles of the Peasants & Agricultural Workers, On Nationalisation of the Jute Industry, On Nationalisation of the Textile Industry, On Working Women, On the Struggle of Central Government Employees, On the Struggle of Railway Employees, On the Struggle of Coal Mine Workers, On the Bank Agreemont, On the Assam Industrial Relief Undertaking (Special Provisions) Bill, 1983, On the Trade Union (West Bengal) Amendment Bill, 1983, On Gangster Attacks on CITU Activists, On Hindusthan Pilkington Glass Factory, On Kalidaspur & Kankar Tala Coal Project, On the Struggle of the Metal Box Workers, On Supply of Coal to Small Scale Industries & for Domestic Use, On Closure of Bengal Paper Mill • Glorious Tripura Bundh • Medical Representatives to Strike • I.D.P.L. Federation Formed • Bank Employees’ Struggle • Com. Sadashiv Bagaitkar • Convention Against Lockouts, Closures • Observance of December 4 • Convention of Working Women • Social Welfare Women Workers on Struggle • Meeting of CITU Secretariat • Coal Workers to Intensify Struggle • Samar Mukherjee Addresses AITUC Conference • FDGB Delegation Meets CITU • WFTU General Secretary Visits CITU • Indefinite Strike in Jute Industry • Port & Dock Workers Prepare For Struggle • LIC Workers’ Strike • Tripartite Meeting in Brick Kiln • Around The States: Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Haryana, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh, Tripura • Conspiracy to Perpetuate Fraudulent Price Index – M. K. Pandhe • Railway News: Strike in Protest of R.P.F. Brutality • Appeal of the 30th Session of the WFTU Bureau: To Workers and TUs in all Countries; CITU’s Reply • Com. Durga Das Shirali • Comrade P. K. Kurane • International Struggles Against Euromissiles

1 Jan 1984

Ganguly, P. K., Bhattacharjee, Shanti, Roy, Jibon

In This Issue: • From Jail Bharo To Bharat Bandh And Industrial Strike On September 9 – P. K. Ganguly • Massive Countrywide Court Arrest • Trade Unions unitedly oppose IISCO Privatisation. Protest strike in Steel Industry on 7th September 1993 • CITU Condemns Killing Of CPI(M) Leader In Bihar • All India Coal Workers’ Federation meet on 30th July. Coal Miners Prepare For Bharat Bandh On 9th September • Railwaymen’s Struggle: Railwaymen’s Convention/Conferences upheld Bharat Bandh on 9th September 1993 • Kisan Sabha Condemns Brutal Murders • Com Bhag Singh Sajjan • Com. T. N. Siddhanta • Citu Mourns Utpal Dutta’s Passing Away • Com. S. K. Bishoyee • Citu Condemns Vandalism By Rss-Bjp-Vhp • Com Achintya Bhattacharya • Sugar Workers Start Mobilisation • Bank And Financial Institutions Decide For Indefinite Strike • Convention Of The L.I.C. Working Women Visakhapatnam Division • Anganwadi Workers to Join Bharat Bandh • CITU Welcomes Supreme Court Order for Reinstatement of Dismissed/Removed Railwaymen • Working Committee Meeting Of E.E.F.I • Power Workers’ Federations Extend Support to DESU Workers in their Struggle Against Privatisation • Technology Upgradation and New Economic Policy - Jibon Roy (Speech read in seminar organised by national productivity council held on 22 & 23rd April 1993 at New Delhi) • Privatisation of Nationalised Insurance Industry Why and In Whose Interest! - Shanti Bhattacharjee • Miners In Continuous Hunger Strike in East Germany to Resist Closure

1 Sept 1993

Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • The Rail Budget And The Railwaymen • For Unity And Struggle. Water Transport Workers’ Federation Formed • Heroic Jute Strike—A Balance Sheet • Power Workers Plan All India Movement • Forge Ahead For Struggles Call Given By All India Conference of Beedi & Cigar Workers • Third Conference of Rajasthan CITU • First Conference of Orissa CITU • Second ‘Conference Of Assam State CITU • The Right To Strike | Legal Notes • Railwaymen Force the Authorities To Negotiate • 8th General Conference of AIIEA Calls For Unity And United Struggles • Conference of Hindusthan Steel Employees Union, Durgapur • Conventions & Protest Actions Against Wage Freeze • Newsletters: Kerala, Tamil Nadu • W. Bengal T.U. Convention Calls For State-Wide Movement And General Strike • Other Regular Features

1 Mar 1975