Steel

Basu, Ranjit, Zharikov, Alexander, Banerjee, Kanai +1

In This Issue: • Comrade Vimal Ranadive • Trade Unions’ Membership Verification - Ranjit Basu • Telecom - Muddle, Scam Or Loot? • 87th Session Of The ILO • Solutions Impossible Under NGO-Liberal Frame Work - Alexander Zharikov, General Secretary, WFTU at the ILO Conference • Defeat The BJP & Its Allies - Kanai Banerjee • West Bengal: 22 Years Of Left Front Govt. & Working Class - Chittabrata Majumdar • Com Saroj Vashist • On To Lok Sabha Elections: Points To Ponder • Economy On Rails! Heading Where? • USA’s Appalling Record On Workers’ Rights • Without Comments: Amartya Sen At Ilo; Bill Clinton At ILO • Consumer Forum Overrules TU Act • Kargil Fund: CITU Appeal • Victorious Strike By Tea Garden Workers • Fish Workers: CITU & Kisan Sabha Joint Meeting • CITU Bihar State Council Meets • Protest Day By State Government Employees • Tamil Nadu: Loadmen Court Arrest • CEL Privatisation Move Opposed • Protest Day In FCI • Actions To Save Rourkela Steel Plant • ENRON-The Great Treachery Exposed • Telecom Package Condemned • Kedia Distillery Accused Of ‘Fraud’; How BIFR Was Taken For A Ride • Central School For Anganwadi Workers • Hindi Patrika For Working Women • Indian Bank: Attack On TU Leaders • NATHPA-Jhakri: Limitless Repression • Against Globalisation • Changes In Oil Sector In Offing? • GEFONT: 10th Anniversary Celebrations • Signature Campaign To Save Public Sector • Com. Vimal Ranadive

1 Aug 1999

Monterio, Vivek, Dakshi, Ardhendu

In This Issue: • Working Women: 20 Years' Review • Let Us Back Our Valiant Jawans! • CITU General Council Meeting At Ghaziabad • Comrade Saroj Chaudhury Passes Away. A Vacuum Difficult To Fill Up • Public Sector Employees Prepare For Strike • Defeat The Anti-PSU Policies • Demonstration Before DPE Office • ESIC Procedural Problems Raised • ENRON: Endwrong Project – Vivek Monterio • Nationwide Protest Against Assam Murders • Contributions To Assam State Committee • Protest Rally At Mornoi Tea Estate • On Brutal Murder Of Tea Garden Workers • International Labour Conference • The Worst Forms Of Child Labour • Takes Aim At Abusive Forms Of Child Labour • Is There Any Alternative - Ardhendu Dakshi • Tamil Nadu News Letter: Local Body Workers’ Conference • Bokaro - Where Mafia Rule Supreme • Delhi: CITU Emerging As A Major Force • U.P: BJP Govt. Attack On Noida Workers • Embichi Bhava Smaraka Inaugurated • Kerala: FMRAI Conference • SAIL: McKinsey Proposals Opposed • M. P: Coal Workers’ Conference • Demonstrations In Port Blair • Against Privatisation: Salem Steel Workers Strike On June 24 • H.P: NAPTHA-Jhakri Project Workers On Strike • Yugoslavia: 600,000 Workers Rendered Jobless • Labour Law Changes: Plight Of Japanese Women Workers • Philippines-EPZ Workers Defeat ‘Union Busting’

1 Jul 1999

Pandhe, M. K., Dakshi, Ardhendu, Roy, Jibon +1

In This Issue: • The Peoples Convention Against Communalism • Massacre Of Landless Poor Murder Of Democracy • Struggle For Rectification Of Fraudulent Price Index – M. K. Pandhe • 35th Meeting Of The Standing Labour Committee: More A Ritual Than Anything Substantial - Ardhendu Dakshi • Pension Case: Apex Court Hearing On 13.4.99 • Cabinet Decision On Coal Mining Flayed • Public Sector Wage Negotiations: CITU Opposes Govt. Guidelines - Jibon Roy • Diversion Of PF, Pension Funds Opposed • National Convention At Delhi: NPMO Demands Withdrawal Of IRA & Patent Bills • ESI Scheme: A Thorough Overhaul Needed – Kali Ghosh • Asian Financial Crisis: ILO Sounds Alarm • Cuba Marches Defying US Blockade • CITU Makes Rapid Strides In Ap • Central Trade Union Class • Convention On IISCO Modernisation • Haryana: Protest Against Victimisation • State Govt. Employees’ Struggle • Protest Day In Assam • CITU Delegation Visits Bangladesh • Bank Employees On Warpath • Working Women’s Front: Anganwadi Employees’ March Forward • Murderous Assault On CITU Leader’s Family • Maharashtra CITU Stages Protest • West Bengal: A Successful General Strike • High Court Infringes Employees Rights • Rubber Growers Facing Ruin: AIKS • Egyptian TU Movement Centennial Celebrations • Com. BTR Memorial Fund

1 Mar 1999

Balanandan, E., Dev Roye, Swadesh, Majumdar, Chittabrata

In This Issue: • Seattle Ministerial Meet: TUs Demand • Editorial: ‘Second Generation Reforms’ Shall Not Pass! • CITU Working Committee Call: Unleash Countrywide United Struggle • Resisit Imperialist Machinations – E. Balanandan • CITU On The Move • Diesel Price Hike: An Act Of Deception! • BJP’s ‘Second Generation Reform’: Financial Sector Top In The Hit List - Swadesh Dev Roye • 5th Conference of SIGTUR Call: Strengthen Struggles Against Globalisation - Chittabrata Majumdar • Economy: On Rails: Heading Where ? • Workers Got A Raw Deal! 57000 Jobs Lost In One Year In Textile Sector Alone: Closures Galore • Document: Second National Commission On Labour • Comrade Dhaniram Khosla • WFTU Memorandum To Seattle Ministerial Meet • Call For Countrywide United Action • Jyoti Basu Greets AIRF Jubilee • Orissa Relief Efforts By FMRAI • Maharashtra CITU On The March • CITU Condemns Privatisation Move In SAIL • PSU Workes, On To Nationwide Struggles • Assam: Tea Garden Struggle Fund • International Conferences • South Korea: Massive Workers' Rally Against Privatisation • Training Programme For Plantation Women • Iraqi TU Federation Congress

1 Dec 1999

Dakshi, Ardhendu, Pandhe, M. K., Dey, Gopinath +2

In This Issue: • NPMO Calls For Nationwide Campaigns • CITU General Council Meeting Notice • CITU Working Committee Meeting Notice • CITU Secretariat Meeting Notice • An Year Of All Round Ruination • Budget 1999-2000: People To Suffer, Economy To Continue To Sink – Ardhendu Dakshi • Port & Dock Workers Fight Against Port Privatisation – M. K. Pandhe • March 8: International Women’s Day: Indian Women Seek Equality, Empowerment • National Seminar On Coal Industry - Gopinath Dey • Buyback Shares By Public Sector: “Dig Your Own Grave !": Govt to PSUs - Swadesh Dev Roye • Central Budget And PSUs - Dipankar Mukherjee • Second National Commission On Labour • Standard Chartered Bank Attempt At De-Unionisation • Himachal Pradesh: Braving Police Repression And Mass Scale Arrest - NAPTHA Jhakhri Workers On Continuous Strike • Tamil Nadu: State Level Campaigns • Captive Power Plants Sale By Sail Opposed • Assam: CITU On The Move • Transport Federation Meets • Maharashtra: Misuse Of Professional Tax • ILC Meets On 3-4 April 1999 • Navi Mumbai Port: CITU Win • Working Women Committee Meeting • Save Rubber Plantations • CITU-ILO TU Training Activity • CPSTU Call • ESI Supplies Contaminated Fluids • Multifarious Campaign By BEFI • Multinational Way Of Recovery • Accord On Wage Revision For Bank Employees • Cement Workers Oppose Sale Of Units • Anganwadi Workers • ILO Criticises Australian Govt. • Alloy Steels Plant, Durgapur, Languishing • Struggle Against CEL Privatisation

1 Apr 1999

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

Dev Roye, Swadesh, Pandhe, M. K., Menon, N. C. +3

In This Issue: • Farewell Com. EMS! • Chennai Prepares For CITU General Council • “National Agenda” Of The BJP-Led Combine: Labour Totally Ignored - Swadesh Dev Roye • Historic Significance Of The Communist Manifesto – M. K. Pandhe • Vulture Capitalism – N. C. Menon • Domestic Workers or Slaves? - Ranjana Nirula • South Asian Workshop on Occupational and Environmental Health – P. K. Ganguly • Suspension Of Work In Dunlop Factories: A Conspiracy By Management • Protect Domestic Industry - Says ASSOCHAM • Coal Washery Workers Agitate Against Closure • Workers Demand Judicial Enquiry • Rajasthan: Workers Agitate At Atomic Energy Plant • INDAL Workers Oppose Take-Over Bid • Conference Of BHEL Mazdoor Union, Jhansi • BPCL Workers To Go For Countrywide Strike • J&K Govt. /PSU Employees’ Strike • Steel Workers Expresses Concern On VRS in SAIL • Bank Employees Opposed Privatisation And Merger • 5th Conference of Bangla Desh Agricultural Farm Labour Federation - Vimal Ranadive • Iraq: Facing The Brunt Of US Gangsterism • Srilankan Plantation Workers’ Strike • Draft Declaration On Social Standards – A Dubious Move In ILO To Help MNCs – M. K. Pandhe

1 Apr 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

Ganguly, P. K., Pandhe, M. K., Sen, Tapan +8

In This Issue: • Forward to the 8th Conference of CITU – P. K. Ganguly • Against the Govt’s Economic Policy: March to Parliament on April 5 • The Coal Workers For A Nation Wide Struggle – M. K. Pandhe • Behind IISCO Privatisation - Tapan Sen • Malhotra Committee: A Doctored Report - Saroj Chaudhuri • Com. Motilal Sharma • Magnificent Strike by Air Employees Against Privatisation - Hemant Kumar • ESI Sub-Committee Recommendations Entrancement of Existing benefit Rates to the Insured Persons • De-Rating Of Name-Plate Capacity Can Make HFC Economically Viable - Swadesh Dev Roye • Workshop on Organising Women Workers in South Asia – V. V. Presenna Kumari • Kanoria Jute Mill : The Facts Beyond Fiction - Chittabrata Majumdar • Jute Workers To Resist Management Offensives Unitedly • 8th National Conference Of All India State Government Employees’ Federation - A Challenging Success - Sukomal Sen • Telecom Employees Exhibit Exemplary Unity - Moni Bose • CITU Delegation In China amidst Com. Mao Zedong Birth Centenary Celebration - Kanai Banerjee

1 Feb 1994

Sen, Tapan, Pandhe, M. K., Roy, Jibon +2

In This Issue: • Polls Are Over—What Next? - Tapan Sen • CITU General Council Meeting, Chennai (Madras), 22-25 April 1998: Notice • 11th International Conference Of Transport Workers – M. K. Pandhe • Coimbatore Blasts & Massacres - A Tragic Fall Out Of Communalisation Of Politics - Jibon Roy • R. Umanath’s Appeal • Fixation And Enforcement Of Minimum Wages - Shanti Ghatak • Murderous Onslaughts On Colombian Workers • National Policy On Civil Aviation: - A Death Knell For The National Carriers - Tapan Pathak • Delhi: Increasing Incidence Of Rape • Construction Of BTR Memorial Started: Speed Up The Drive For Funds • CITU Delegation Visits Vietnam • Asian Crisis: ILO Prescribes fake pain killers, not real cure • Tigers In Crisis! À La Globalisation! • Zero Duty On Capital Goods Import! • Haryana: Heroic Fight Against Police Brutality • Strike In BEL • TRAI Debars MTNL • IISCO: TUs Demand Action • INTUC Against Disinvestment • BPCL : Fight Against Bifurcation • PF Employees on Strike • State Bank Officers' Meet • KVB Employees’ Conference • Chennai Race Club Women Workers • Tuticorin Dock Strike • Times Of India Employees’ Struggle • Russia: Wage Payment Is Not The Priority • WFTU Against UN To Bomb Iraq • Japan: Workers Rally For Wage Rise • Unrest In Air Force Over Pay Disparity • Stop Unilateral Family Budget Survey By Labour Bureau!

1 Mar 1998

Choudhary, Saroj, Sindhu, A. R., Roy, Jibon +2

In This Issue: • Elections 1998: CITU Appeals To The Working Class • Without Comments: Whither Communal! • WTO Pact On Financial Service: Who Cheers! - Saroj Chaudhuri • Com. B. P. Kashyap • Quarry Workers Of Faridabad - A tale of woes and agony • Trade Unions Denounce Disinvestment Of Public Sector Shares, National Meet At Bangalore Calls For United Struggle • Women Workers Organise in Monica Electronics, Delhi – A. R. Sindhu • Whither Public Sector! • Elections 1998: Rid Factory Gates Of Communal & Caste Divide - Jibon Roy • More on Judgement Against Bandhs: A Pedantic Rhetoric of Anglo Saxon Jurispudence - Har Dev Singh, Bar-at-Law, Supreme Court of India • M.P: Nightmare Of BJP Rule - Badal Saroj • Madhya Pradesh BJP’s Tendu Leaf Scam • Of Bofors Connection! • ILO Sounds Alarm On Unemployment • Whither Globalisation! IMF To Bail-Out Or Sell-Out • Central TUs On IISCO Modernisation • Total Bandhin Burdwan • Police Repression On Dalli - Rajhara Mine Workers • C.S.E.U. Celebrates Silver Jubilee • Save Cement Corporation: TUs Call • FMRAI Rally In Mumbai • HMS Conference • Employees’ Rally Against HVP-BJP Govt. • Demonstration before US Embassy • Japan: Yamaichi Securities Co. To Close • Part-Time Workers Demonstrate • Japanese Govt Attacks On Hospital Workers • Mass Protest Against Govt. • Against Reforms and Deregulation • Joint Programme for Spring Struggle • Australia: Workers Win Better Wages • Fighting Health Hazards • All European Ports Paralysed • CITU Demands abrogation of Sanctions against Libyan Arab Jamahiriya • WFTU Calls For Worldwide Action • Multilateral Agency For Unilateral Benefit!

1 Feb 1998

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., 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

Ganguly, P. K., Majumdar, J. S., Pandhe, M. K. +2

In This Issue: • Mammoth Rally of Textile Workers – P. K. Ganguly • Trade Unions Demand Change In Fiscal Policies • CITU Denounces Police Firing at Kerala and Calls for Countrywide Protest Actions • Joint Convention on Scooter India • Bihar State CITU Conference – J. S. Majumdar • Jute Workers Prepare for Strike • Thirteenth Congress Of The WFTU – M. K. Pandhe • Joint Statement by Indian and Pakistani TU leaders • Com. BTR’s 90th Birthday: Seminar on formation of a Confederation of all Central Trade Unions • Women Hit Hardest in Russia • Conference of Tamilnadu Construction Workers • Contract Workers of Steel Industry Demanded Wage Revision and Interim Relief • TUs Demands Implementation of Prasar Bharati Act • Accident in Bokaro Steel Plant; 10 workers injured • World Meeting on Solidarity with Cuba – J. Ballabh • Regionwide TU Initiative for Workers’ Right Planned From the Third Indian Ocean Region Trade Union Conference - Chittabrata Majumdar • CITU representative at International Trade Union Seminar, Seoul – S. Dev Roye • BEFI Opens Punjab State Unit • Kathmandu: International Trade Union Conference Against IMF-World Bank Structural Adjustment Programme

1 Jan 1995

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., Ranadive, Vimal, Dev Roye, Swadesh

In This Issue: • Mumbai Farewell To Vimaldi • The Battle Ahead: Save The Country • Economy On Rails Heading Where ? • Hai Swadeshi ! • BJP/NDA Manifesto - Working Class Is Nowhere • Challenges Before The Trade Union Movement Today – M. K. Pandhe • Condolence Meeting Of Saroj Vasisth • Bail Out For Private Sector And Sell Out Of PSUs • Govt. Must Amend The Payment Of Bonus Act Right Now • The Great Fervour Of The 1930s - Vimal Ranadive • Com. Vimal Ranadive - A Life Sketch • Madhya Pradesh State Committee Meeting • State Convention Of Public Sector Unions • Oil Sector Worst Hit Under BJP Rule - Swadesh Dev Roye • Public Sector: Open Letter To All Political Parties • Unorganised Sector Workers Convention At Calcutta • Air India/Indian Airlines/Airport Authority: Contract Labour Board Recommendation • Conspiracy To Rob Workers' Savings • Tamil Nadu: Police Action On Tea Garden Workers • West Bengal: State Convention Of PSU Unions • Steel Workers Observe Protest Day • Mornoi Tea Garden Murders • Management-INTUC Nexus Exposed • Massive Rally Of Solapur Beedi Workers • Mumbai: Trade Union Seminar On Globalisation And Communal Danger • Tamil Nadu State CITU Meeting • Tributes To Vimaldi • ESI Benefits For Disabled/Retired Workers

1 Sept 1999

Krishnan, P. R., Pandhe, M. K., Amin, Mohammed +3

In This Issue: • More than 12 lakh workers strike work in Maharashtra Against Govt Pension Scheme – P. R. Krishnan • Editorial: The New Year • Mounting Opposition Against Pension Scheme And Ordinance: Protest day observed on 4th December all over • National Press On The Pension Scheme – M. K. Pandhe • Massive Dharna against New Economic Policies • CITU Opposes Pension Ordinance, Demands For Right Of Option By The Workers To Pension Scheme • 8000 Textile Workers Court Arrest Before Parliament • Jute strike Rebuffs Canards, Wins Major Demands - Mohd Amin • Unprecedented Industrial Strike in Delhi • National Consensus? • CITU Congratulates Coal Miners for massive strike on 18th December • CITU Condemns Governments Refusal To Provide Funds For Modernisation Of IISCO • Fertilizer Workers Court Arrest Before Parliament • Bihar State Workshop On Child Labour – J. S. Majumdar • CITU-ILO Child Labour Workshop in Rajasthan • ILO\UNDP Workshop On Unorganised Sector • World Development Report 1995 - Saroj Chaudhuri • Com. K. M. Bhadra • Viva La France! • Privatisation And Unemployment: A Global Review – P. K. Ganguly

1 Jan 1996

In This Issue: • The Spectre of Crisis • Countrywide Movement Of Coal Workers’ Planned • Enhancement of Stipend of Apprentices • Railway News: Demonstration Before British High Comnission • CITU Denounces Increase In Railway Fare & Freight • Sucessful Strike By Quarry Workers • CITU’s Complaint To I.L.O. On Assam Jute Mills • Barbarous Lathi Charge On Kanpur Biscuit Factory Workers • SAIL Management’s Production Policies Criticised • Delaying Tactics of HSCL Management • Spate of Victimisations After January 19 : Workers’ Resistance • All India Movement by L.I.C. Employees • West Bengal Jute Workers Preparing For Indefinite Strike • Movement By Teagarden Workers • CITU Congratulates Govt. Employees • Rajasthan, UP Govt. Employees’ Indefinite Strike • National Compaign Committee Condemns Impounding of DA, HRA and CCA • Simla Hotel Workers Fight Victimisation • LRSA’s complaint to ILO • Kerala Convention Of Women Teachers • International Women’s Day • All India Lawyer’s Union • AITUC-CITU Oppose Productivity Linked Wages In Steel Industry • All China Federation of Trade Unions Thanks CITU (Letter dated February 6) • Glorious Strike of Bombay Textile Workers • Stay Order In Cement Arbitration • The World Trade Union Congress • Down With The Capitalist Path Of Development • Uphold The Banner Of Proletarian Internationalism • Appeal Of The Congress To Workers And Trade Unions Of All Countries

1 Apr 1982

Ranadive, B. T.

In This Issue: • Against the Black Ordinance. Massive Countrywide Protests • Strike in Kerala • Antulay Government’s Brutal Assault • Struggle Continues in J. K. Rayon • Massive Morcha And Courting Arrest By Delhi Women • Attempt to Murder Com. Ajeya Rout • Com. C. Govindarajan Stabbed • Jute Workers Observe Total Strike • Attack on CITU Union in Tamil Nadu • All India Demands Day by C.G. Employees • Kerala Tea Estates lock-out • Railway News: Samar Mukherjee Indicts Railway Board for Accidents • Dharna by Loco Running Staff • For Prompt United Intervention by the Working Class. CITU General Council Reiterates the Call for Confederation • Stirring Call by P. Ramamarti: Strengthen Organisation—Build up United Struggle • Grasp United Front Tactics • Successful T.U. Convention in Maharashtra • A Supplement to the Working Class September 1981 issue: Presidential Address by Com. B. T. Ranadive, General Council Meeting, Bally-Howrah, August 21-24, 1981 • Condition of Workers in the Arab Territories Occupied by Israel • Coal India Management Responsible for Stagnation in Production • Steel Industry Settlement of Anomalies Question • In South Zone Movement for Minimum Wage Mounts UP • Mass Retrenchment in Kalta Iron Mines • HSCL Management’s Dilatory Tactics Opposed • Beedi Workers To Demonstrate

1 Sept 1981