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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

Krishna Moorthy, S., Choudhury, Nishith, Majumdar, Chittabrata

In This Issue: • Govt Reduces Interest On PF • Com. P. R. Parameswaran • Editorial: Why Shy Away From Struggle ? • Boycott Of Ii National Commission On Labour • Petition To President Of India Mass Rally In Delhi : 26 Sep 2000 • The Dotted Lines For The Labour Commission • ESI Scheme: Deteriorating Medicare • All India Conference Of Working Women, 12th July, 2000: Notice • Against anti-PSU, anti-worker Govt policies: PSU Workers To Go For Three-Day Strike • Cochin Shipyard: Yet Another Legal Win – S. Krishna Moorthy • Gold Plating Of Fertiliser Companies - Nishith Choudhury • Economy On Rails! Heading Where? • Korea: Detention Centres Overflowing • Conference Of UCATT - Chittabrata Majumdar • CITU: Karnataka State Conference • Demonstration Against 2nd Labour Commission • All India Conference Of Beedi Workers • Solapur: 10,000 Houses For Beedi Workers • Madhya Pradesh: Beedi Workers Conference • Malwa Regional Conference Of CITU • Women Beedi Workers’ Convention • Bank Employees Against Privatisation • NPCC Workers Union Conference • Cement: CITU/AITUC Reservation On Mou • Training Programme For Working Women • Birla Textile Mill Workers On Strike • BHEL Workers Staged Massive Demonstration • Death Anniversery Of Com Saroj Vasisth • International Briefs • Centre Of Indian Trade Unions, Working Committee Meeting, Haldia (W.B.), September 18 to 20, 2000: Notice • Cuba: Meet On Women & Trade Unionism

1 Aug 2000

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

Dakshi, Ardhendu, Choudhary, Saroj, Sen, Tapan +1

In This Issue: • Subhuman Life Under “Inhuman Development” – Ardhendu Dakshi • End This Us Arrogance! - Saroj Chowdhury • Greetings To People’s Republic Of China • "Sell Out PSUs At Any Cost !" – Tapan Sen • Com Chadayan Govindan • Without-Comments: Cheap Import Virus Hit Desi Companies – BIFR • Dumping Puts Steel Industry In Crisis • Without-Comment: Fake Divestment • Steel Industry: Anti-Worker Measures Opposed – M. K. Pandhe • For Cuba: Medicines Against Blockade • "Payment Of Wages Must Get Priority" • Extract Of The Interim Order: Dunlop Factory Employees Union Chennai vs The Management of M/s Duntop India Ltd. Chennai • Pension Case In Supreme Court • Supreme Court Judgement On 1. What Is Sexual Harassment? 2. Who Do These Guidelines Apply To? 3. Preventive Steps; 4. Complaints Procedure; 5. Disciplinary Action; 6. Other Provisions Of Guidelines - These Supreme Court Guidelines Are Legally Binding And Must Be Enforced. • Road Transport Workers On United Struggle • Reign Of Terror In Dhaurabhata • Karnataka Convention Of NPMO • Jute Workers’ Strike On Bonus • IOC Contract Workers • Strike By Seamen Of Home Trade • Maharashtra: Workshop On Child Labour • CITU Wrests Fertiliser Union From BJP • Com. Pritish Chanda • Tamil Nadu: Construction Workers Welfare Scheme • J & K Co-Ordination Committee Of TUs • Who Will Help Jamuna Devi? • ESI: Standard Benefits Enhanced • Ousted Bank Staff Win Back Jobs • AICCTU Conference • Successful Strike Of College Teachers • Philippines: Workers Losing Jobs • Com. P. Ramachandra Rao • WFTU Plea To NAM Summit • BTR Memorial Fund • Fidel Castro On Globalisation And Third World Unity

1 Oct 1998

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

Ranadive, B. T., Sen, Sukomal

In This Issue: • May Day 1984 – B. T. Ranadive • Slogans of CITU for the May Day—1984 • Road Transport Worker’s Conference to be held in Madras • Workers’ March to Parliament • Victory of the Jute Workers • Victory of Port and Dock Workers • Coal Workers to Strike Again • Steel Workers Convention • Demands Day Central Government Employees • Bank Employees Struggle • Annual Meeting of Reserve Bank Employees Association • Around The States: Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Karnataka, Bihar, Orissa, Tripura, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Haryana • Convention of Opposition Parties • Peace Day Observed • Conference of AICAPEF • CITU Demands More Power To States • Seminar on National Transport Policy • Memorandum by Plantation Workers’ Federation • HSCL Joint Forum at Breaking Point • Seamen Hold Protest Demonstrations • Strike by Medical Representatives • CiTU Demands Implementation of Labour Laws by Brick-Kiln Owners • CITU Secretariat Meeting • Monopoly Houses Thrive at the Cost of People • Of Membership Of Trade Unions: The Present Procedure for Verification • M.Ps. Demand Recognition of Sahrawi Democratic Republic • Railwaymen’s Struggle: 48-Hour Strike in Chittaranjan Locomotive Works • Railway Budget Evades Responsibility for Poor Performance • Warm Reception to Chinese T.U. Delegation • Tripartite Committee On D.A.: Delay in Convening Meeting • Demand of Bonus and Interim Relief by the State Government Employees: The background and perspective – Sukomal Sen, General Secretary, All India State Govt. Employees Federation • CITU & AITUC Protest Against Verification Process • State Government Employees to Strike • Library and Reading Room for Steel Workers • Women’s Struggle: Third Convention of Working Women • Seminar on Workers’ Participation in NTC • Comments on the Delhi Recognition of Trade Unions Bill, 1983 • Comrade Santosh Mitra • Comrade Golak Pati Roy • On the Government’s Scheme for Employees’ Participation in Management • International Struggles

1 May 1984

Chatterjee, A. P., Sharma, Vijender

In This Issue: • Fight for Peace and Against Warmongers – Vijender Sharma • Victory of Port and Dock Workers • All India Coal Workers Convention : 4-5 April • Soviet TU Greets CITU on Republic Day • Bonus to LIC Employees. A New Perspective in Industrial Law | Legal Notes – Arun Prokas Chatterjee • Beedi Export Markets will not Benefit Workers • Women Workers Face Enmasse Retrenchment • All India HSCL Workers to Strike on 19 February • TUs Criticise Labour Policy in Steel Industry • Public Sector Employees Indefinite Strike Continues • Bank Employees Federation, West Bengal : A Militant Organisation Formed: Bank Employees Revolt Against the Policies of AIBEA • Delhi CITU Demands End to Closures, Police Repression • Com. S. Venkatram • Railway News: Efforts for Unity Continues • Plight of MES Workers in Andaman • CITU Demands Takeover of B & C Mills • Road Transport Workers to Organise All India Conference • More trade union schools by CITU • Orissa CITU Meets • Haryana CITU Meets • West Bengal Newsletter • All India Strike Planned by ITC Workers on 5 February • Tripartite Meeting of Beedi and Cigar Workers • News in Brief • CITU Demands Reinstatement of Dismissed IB Employees • CITU Condemns Repression on Blind • CITU Condemns Repression on State Govt Employees of Punjab

1 Feb 1981

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

Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • EDITORIAL A Futile Exercise To Hoodwink The Workers • Long Live The Great November Revolution • CITU Greets People’s China • Deceptive Explanation Of Fraudulent Index • Successful One day Strike By Ranigunj Colliery Workers • The CITU Secretariat Meets • Calcutta Dock Workers’ Struggle For Bonus And Other Demands • CITU Condemns Police Firing In Bihar • Report Of The Bonus Review Committee / Legal Notes • Bangladesh Jute Workers On Strike • Demands Week Observed By Road Transport Workers • W. Bengal Jute Workers Prepare For Continuous Strike • Durgapur Steel Workers’ Strike In Support Of Contract Workers • RAILWAYMEN: Loco Running Staff To Intensify Struggle • Struggle Of Calcutta Corporation Workers & Employees • CITU Condemns Police Firing in Bihar • Central Govt. Employees & Railwaymen Observe 19th September • Massive Anti-Wage Freeze Demonstration In Bharatpur • CITU Andhra Pradesh Committee Meets • Newsletters : Tamilnadu • Other Regular Features

1 Nov 1974

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

Silva, L., Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • Lessons Of Port And Dock Strike • CITU’s Letter To ILO On Suppression of Trade Union Rights in West Bengal • Kuneitra In Ruins—L. Silva • Real Face of Nationalisation of Sick Textile Undertakings • Central Govt. Employees Defrauded • On The Question of D.A. • Second CITU Conference of West Bengal • First Conference of Orissa CITU • Jute Workers’ United Strike Continues • Railwaymen Continue The Struggle • W. Bengal T.U.’s Plan United Movement • Civil Court & Industrial Law/ Legal Notes • Real Face of Nationalisation of Sick Textile Undertakings • Indian Rare Earth Strike Ends In Victory • Newsletters: Kerala, Tamilnadu, Goa • CITU Criticises Port & Dock Agreement • Other Regular Features • 8-page Supplement On The Exploitation Of Indian Seamen

1 Feb 1975

Ranadive, Vimal, Umanath, R., Chatterjee, A. P.

In This Issue: • Forward To The Third Conference Of CITU • Condition of Indian Women in the International Women’s Year | Vimal Ranadive • Industrial Accidents And Role of Trade Unions | R. Umanath • Hospital And Industrial Law | Legal Notes • Arithmetic Of Agricultural Workers’ Life • Assam P.F. Scheme—A Fraud On Tea Garden Workers • Tamilnadu Committee of CITU Meets • National Campaign Committee Against Wage Freeze To Meet On April 9 • For Delegates To 3rd CITU Conference • State Govt. Employees & Teachers On Strike | Tripura • Port & Dock Workers And Seamen Observe Demands Day • Newsletters Goa, Gujarat • Other Regular Features

1 Apr 1975

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

In This Issue: • Rising Attacks and Growing Struggles – B. T. Ranadive • Karnataka CITU Conference • CITU Calls for United Struggles Against Capitalist Onslaughts • CITU Condemns Firing on Workers by Management Hirelings in Sirsa • Railway News • Call for Strengthening United Movement Against Anti-Labour Policy • Glorious Public Sector Strike On 11 March • CTUs Congratulate the Strikers in Public Undertakings • All India Convention on Drug Industry • Over One Lakh March on State Assembly in Bombay • Successful Strike of Seamen in Calcutta • J & K Govt Employees Conference • CITU Demands Govt. Intervention in TISCO Contract Workers’ Strike • All India Coal Workers Convention • MICO Factory • A Plea for Further Amendment of Section 2(s) of I.D. Act | Legal Notes -Arun Prokas Chatterjee • Police Raj in Rajhara • Contracts to Foreign Oil Companies: Against the Interests of the Country • Delhi TUs Call for General Strike on 14 April • Jute Workers to Launch Countrywide Campaign • Engineering Workers’ Convention Held • Leaders of Medical Workers Union from USSR Visit CITU Office

1 Apr 1981

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

Ganguly, P. K., Vaidya, G. N.

In This Issue: • Call of General Council: Fight the Communal and Divisive Forces – P. K. Ganguly • CITU condemns strike by drug cartels • Workers Enslaved Authority Mafia-Caucus in Cochin Port • Secretariat Communique: CITU Calls for Campaign Against New Industrial Policy • Joint Fight Against Communalism by Central Trade Unions • Meeting with Planning Commission: TUs Flay New Industrial Policy of Government - P. K. Ganguly • General Council Meeting, Kanpur, July 21-23, 1990: Resolutions • CITU Condemns Gangsterism in Tripura • Railwaymen’s Struggle - DREU Demonstrations • Tripartite Committee on DA Ends Without Conclusions • Joint Dharna against IDPL • Reminiscences. B. T. Ranadive—My Friend for Sixty-Seven Years – G. N. Vaidya, M. A., L. L. B. F. T..A., Textile Consultant • ANC Remains Firm to Dismantle Apartheid • SAIL’s Attempt to Go-Back from Pension-Commitment Foiled

1 Aug 1990

Ganguly, P. K., Pandhe, M. K., Roy, Jibon

In This Issue: • Against Economic Policies Of The Government: Trade Unions Call for Countrywide Strike • Steel Workers Protest Govt Policy of Bailing out the Country • Fertilizer Workers to Launch Nationwide Agitation • Meeting with Trade Unions: Finance Minister on the Defensive – P. K. Ganguly • CITU Appeals for United Strike Action against the Economic Measures taken by the Government • W. Bengal Prepared for United Strike Action • Punjab CITU for Strike Action • Maharashtra Prepare for Strike • Assam CITU Gearing Up for Strike Action • CITU Led Successful Struggle in Vizag Steel Plant • Punjab Working Women’s Convention • Conference of NPCC Workers Union • September Programmes Against Economic Policies of the Government • The offensive of Privatisation – M. K. Pandhe • 6th September—Bank Employees’ Strike: Joint Declaration by Bank Unions against Privatisation of banks • 20 Years of ‘The Working Class’ • Special Seamen's Convention • CITU Condemns Strike Decision by Drug Cartels • CITU Demands Drastic Punishment to Murderers of Chundur Harijans • ACFTU Acknowledges CITU’s Sympathy for Disaster Hit People • 1st Aug. 1991 Observed as ‘Anti-Privatisation Day’ by Civil Aviation Employees in Bombay • Tamilnadu Moves for Strike Action • Small Scale industry under Big Business Stranglehold • 51st Conference of the Bengal Chetkal Mazdoor Union • Construction workers to go on All India Strike • Rail workers Convention Against ‘Human Rights’ Violation • Tasks Ahead of Trade Union Movement - Jibon Roy • Focus in Parliament: Government Grilled on Economic Policies • CITU Rejects Pension Scheme Proposed by the Central Board of Trustees (Provident Fund)

1 Sept 1991

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