Transport

In This Issue: • Strike Call By NCC On Save Democracy Day — August 25 • Coalminers’ Solidarity Day • Struggle In Coal Industry: Joint Action Committee Serves Ultimatum • Eight Days Wage Deduction Illegal • Violation of Safety Rules in Coal Mines • Railwaymen’s Struggle: Indefinite Strike Decision by AIRF • INTUC Wiped Out By Complete Strike in Heavy Engineering Corporation • CITU Demands Central Govt. Intervention • Dharna by Central Government Employees • No Settlement on DA in Public Sector Undertakings • CITU Protests Against BHEL Circular • Textile Workers Demand Nationalisation of Textile Industry • CITU Congratulates Workers For Participation In Save Democracy Day • Road Transport Workers’ Conference • Multinationals Violate the Labour Laws • Agricultural Workers’ Convention • CITU Secretariat Meeting • Workers Observe Punjab Week • Stalemate in Wage Talks in 67 Public Sector Units • Around The States: Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu • General Council Meeting • Raptakos Brett Field Workers Court Arrest • CITU Condemns Banning of Strikein I.E.L. • SWFI Office Bearers Meeting • Govt. Ignores Workers Proposal on Chairman of NSC • Electricity Workers Observe Anti-repression Day • Steel & Coal Workers Contribute to CITU Solidarity Fund • Workers Court Arrest Against Sale of Public Undertaking to Private Hands • CITU Supports Junior Doctors’ Struggle • CITU Delegation Visits China • International Struggles

1 Sept 1984

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

Varada Rajan, W. R., Sen, Tapan, Pandhe, M. K. +4

In This Issue: • Coal Miners Restive Over Govt. Inaction • Editorial: Ring In 2003 With Intensified Struggles! • Gujarat Polls and Beyond – W. R. Varada Rajan • CITU Working Committee Meeting: Towards Massive Countrywide United Action… - Tapan Sen • Russian Workers Defend T.U Rights – M. K. Pandhe • CITU Discussions on Working Women • Second National Commission on Labour and Working Women: Advocacy for Organising or Pitching for Gender Divide? • AIFAWH Delegation Meets PM • 2002 in Retrospect • Parliament Debate on PSU sell-Off – excerpts from the interventions of Jibon Roy and Dipankar Mukherjee • Against Privatisation: Petroleum Workers to go for Strike • Reports & Events • • Tamil Nadu: Struggle Against Transport Privatisation - (Report from A.K. Padmanabhan) • • IISCO Colliery Workers Strike Successful • • Solapur: 60th Death Anniversary Of Dr. Kotnis • • Present Crisis In Tea Plantations - (Report From P. Lalaji Babu) • • Anganwadi Workers Plan Actions • • Massive Strike At Bokaro Steel Plant • • Joint Trade Union Convention In Delhi • Coffee Plantation Workers Win Confidence

1 Jan 2003

Pandhe, M. K., Dev Roye, Swadesh, Hemalata, K. +6

In This Issue: • WTO Trade Policy Review: Pressures On India • Editorial: Saffron Leopard And Its Spots • The Presidential Contest • What Lakshmi Sahgal Stands for • Dr. (Captain) Lakshmi Sahgal - A Revolutionary Life of Struggles & Sacrifice • West Bengal: Twenty Five Years of Left Front Rule and the Working Class – M. K. Pandhe • The VSNL Scandal: Plunder of Public Property – Swadesh Dev Roye • BSNL Employees Union Protests • The Fire in Agra Shoe Factory – K. Hemalata • Central Trade Unions Oppose Closure Of Any Unit Of IISCO • Obnoxious Move for Fast Track Liquidation – W. R. Varada Rajan • Water Transport Workers to Fight Against Privatisation – M. K. Pandhe • Report & Events • • Kerala: CITU Wins Referendum In KSRTC - (Report From K.K. Divakaran) • • Assam: CITU State Council Meeting - (Report From Samir Das) • • Campaigns In Tamilnadu - (Report from A. K. Padmanabhan) • • CITU Campaign In Karnataka - (Report From V. J. K.Nair) • • All India Protest Day Observed • • Coca Cola Workers Sign Agreement • • A P: Cooperative Sector Convention • • Textiles: All India Convention In July • • NPCC Workers' Union Conference • • CITU-ILO Child Labour Project: NFE Centres • CITU To Host World Congress of Integrated Energy Workers • International Labour Conference at Geneva – Tapan Sen

1 Jul 2002

Sen, Sukomal, Pandhe, M. K., Iyer, K. V. A. +5

In This Issue: • Without Comments: Public Sector Still The Biggest Employer: ILO • Facts Belie Rhetoric: PSEs Outperform Private Companies • Editorial: Paying The Wages Of America's War • Sponsoring Committee Of Trade Unoins Call: Oppose Retrograde Changes In Labour Laws • November Revolution: Blazing The Path To Defeat Imperialist Hegemony - Sukomal Sen • Extended Meeting Of Committee Of Public Sector Trade Unions On 17-18 November • Mockery Of Expenditure Reforms – M. K. Pandhe • A Case Against Subsidy Chopping - K. V. A. Lyer • CITU Call: Campaign For An All India Strike • Small Savings, PF: Move To Reduce Interest, Withdraw Tax Benefits – W. R. Varada Rajan • Document: Employment & Unemployment Scenario In India • New York TUs On September 11 Incident • Reports & Events • • Fisheries' Workers Plan Conference • • Chhattisgarh: Workshop On Organisation • • PSU Unions: A I Coordination Committee Meeting • • Orissa CITU On The Move - (Report From Bishnu Mohanty) • • Orissa FMRAI: Affilation To CITU - (Report From Apurba Kumar Ghosh) • • Transport Workers Plan Countrywide Actions - (Report From K. K. Divakaran) • • Tripura State Committee Report • • CITU - ILO Child Labour Programme • • Attack On TU Rights In Reserve Bank • • The AP State RTC Strike • • TU Education For Working Women • • Anganwadi News • • Meeting Of All India Beedi Workers Federation • • CITU Protests "Vietnam Human Rights Act" • 'Voice' Becoming Monthly • USA: Voices Against The War • Unabated Loot Of People's Moneys - Ardhendu Dakshi • Call For Action By PSU TUs

1 Nov 2001

Varada Rajan, W. R., Hemalata, K., Pandhe, M. K.

In This Issue: • National Consultation Meeting Of Trade Unions, New Delhi, 12 March, 2003: Resolution • Editorial: Halt This Global Gangsterism • May 21: Forward to All India General Strike – W. R. Varada Rajan • U.S.: 1 million to Lose Unemployment Benefits • Arbitrary & Whimsical Ways of Labour Ministry • Report of the 2nd World Conference of Oil, Gas & Refinery Trade Unions – Swadesh Dev Roye • Economy Derailed, Down The Disaster Lane • • No Growth Impulses In Budget: Ncaer • • Budget: No Application Of Mind: Dr. Manmohan Singh • • Budget For Growing Inequities • • Union Budget: The Myth Of Investment Growth… • • Job Losses Galore • Budget 2003-04 Excels in Deception of the People – K. Hemalata • Blood Thirsty War for Iraq's Oil – M. K. Pandhe • Reports & Events • • Heroic Struggle of APSRTC Staff and Worker's Federation • • Steel Workers In Dharna Against Privatisation • • Chenab Hydro Project Workers' Struggle • • International Women's Day Observed • • Anganwadi Workers' Indefinite Mass Dharna • • Corporate Bankruptcies Exhaust US Pension Guaranty Fund • • Strike Brings Much of Algeria to a Halt • Red Salute To Rachel Cory • Sigtur Statement Against War And Terror • South Asian Regional conference of Women Trade Unionists

1 Apr 2003

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

In This Issue: • Vizag EPZ: Successful United Struggle • Editorial: Under BJP, Governance At Its Lowest Ebb • November 9: Action Day Against Globalisation • Globalisation Promotes Monopolies: Chomsky • Mockery Of Expenditure Reforms - II – M. K. Pandhe • CPSTU Meet Calls For Countrywide Action • POTO: Descent To A Police State? • Economy Derailed! Disasters Ahead! • • Business Confidence Down: Ncaer • • Decline In Agriculture… • • Gloom, Doom And.....Boom! • • Industrial Growth Slips To 1.6% In September • • Rethinking Privatisation? • • Reforms Disappointment • Sigtur Congress In Seoul • Reports & Events • Andhra Pradesh: Transport Workers' Victorious Strike • Against Judgment On Contract Labour: Demonstration Before Supreme Court • Against Judgment On Contract Labour: Massive Demonstration In Mumbai • National Railway Mazdoor Union • Global Jobs Crisis • Coal Industry: Countrywide Three-Day Strike • M.P. Koila Shramik Sangh Conference • Demonstration Against Power Tariff Hike • Assam: Conference Of Tea Workers • Andhra Pradesh: Fisheries Workers Convention • Indefinite Strike By Transport And Civil Supply Workers: Statewide General Strike In Tamilnadu • AICCTU Holds 5th Conference • Unorganised Sector Workers' Convention • CITU - ILO Child Labour Project • Salem: Steel Workers' Resist Privatisation • Doha: Developing Countries Lose The Battle – W. R. Varada Rajan • Without Comments: World Bank: India Pays Out More; Gets Less Assistance

1 Dec 2001

Varada Rajan, W. R., Hemalata, K., Pandhe, M. K. +4

In This Issue: • CITU opposes amendment permitting night work for women • Editorial: Intervene To End This Parochialism! • CITU 11th Conference: Towards Intensified Struggles and Class Unity – W. R. Varada Rajan • Two Disturbing Aspects of NDA Governance – M. K. Pandhe • CITU 11th Conference: Charting the Road Ahead for United Struggles – K. Hemalata • 16th DEC: Countrywide Strike in Oil PSUs – Swadesh Dev Roye • Against Ban on Right to Strike: Govt Employees To Strike On February 11 • The World Economy Today – E. Balanandan • In Solidarity With Korean Workers – A. K. Padmanabhan • Massive Strike Paralyses Italy • Report & Events • • Orissa State CITU Conference • • Haryana State Conference • • Tripura State Conference • • Assam State Conference • • Maharashtra CITU Conference • • West Bengal State CITU Conference • • Against SC ban on right to strike: Joint Trade Union Convention In Haryana • • State Level Workshop On Organisation In Bihar • • KSRTC Employees Strike • • APSRTC Staff & Workers Holds Convention • • Against Privatisation And Outsourcing: Coal Workers' Massive Dharna At Nagpur • • A P State Convention Of Working Women • Supreme Court Judgement on Pension Case: Loot Of Workers' Moneys Legitimised! • Whither Productivity Linked Wage! – Santasri Chatterjee, Secretary, West Bengal State CITU

1 Dec 2003

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

In This Issue: • New Labour Minister Speaks… • Editorial: Sangh Parivar's Gameplan • National Assembly Of Workers Call: Unitedly Rally to Defeat Anti-Labour Policies • Labour Commission Recommendations • CITU Condemns PM's Call For Labour 'Reforms' • Comrade Suryanarayan Rao • 90th International Labour Conference:: Issues Deliberated in Committees – Tapan Sen • Economy Derailed • • Scams, Frauds And Actions… • • Xerox-Modicorp Bribe-Scam.... Who Paid It All? • • Neoliberal Globalisation: Less Governanace, Least Regulation More Frauds And Scams… • • In WTO On Agriculture..… • • WTO Commands Further Reforms • • Document: United Trade Union Movement and the BMS • • All India Convention of EPZ/SPZ Workers • Suryanarayana Rao A Relenless Fighter – M. K. Pandhe • Emphatic no to Labour Panel Report – W. R. Varada Rajan • Reports & Events • • Tamilnadu: Massive Court Arrest By Workers • • Minimum Wage Advisory Board Meeting • • All India Convention Of NTC Workers • TUI Transport general Council Meet • Six Lakh Coal Miners to Down on 5-11 August

1 Aug 2002

Sen, Tapan, Sundaram, N. M., Varada Rajan, W. R. +1

In This Issue: • Working Women: All India Coordination Committee Meeting • Editorial: Messing Up Mandate 2004? • CITU General Council Call: United Countrywide Mobilisation For Pro-People Policies And Against Anti-People Measures – Tapan Sen • CITU Welcomes Rail Budget • CITU General Council: New Situation and Fight against Globalisation • Interest Rate on EPF: Why Repeated Deferment? – W. R. Varada Rajan • Why Oppose FDI Hike in Insurance – N. M. Sundaram • Budget 2004-05: UPA Govt 's Maiden Budget -"A Mixed Bag, Requires Revisiting Of Several Issues • Central TUS On Budget 2004-05 • Soft Interest Regime: 'Soft' For Whom? – W. R. Varada Rajan • Real Rate of Return for Social Security Funds • Restructuring Of PSEs • Reports & Events • • Public Sector's Performance Once Again Nails The Lie • • Jammu & Kashmir: Sewa Hydel Workers Fight Back Repression • • Road Transport Workers To Launch Agitation • • National Convention Of Road Transport Workers • • Convention Against Electricity Act 2003 • • CITU Kamgar Bhawan Inaugurated At Nasik • • All India Bank Strike On 24th August, 2004 • Fixed Term Employment Workman Notification To Be Rescinded • The Mystery Around Petroleum Pricing – Ardhendu Dakshi • BALCO Starts Boiling Again

1 Aug 2004

Sen, Tapan, Varada Rajan, W. R., Mukherjee, Dipankar +1

In This Issue: • Viva Chavez! • Editorial: UPA Government Must Act Fast! • All India Demands Day: Countrywide Demonstration On August 20 • The Call For United Action • WTO Meet At Geneva, A Retreat From Cancun – Tapan Sen • EPF Interest: Is The Demand For 12 Per Cent Unjustifiable? – W. R. Varada Rajan • Centaur Hotel: Discomforting Aspects Of Privatisation • Fraudulent Sale of Centaur Hotel – Dipankar Mukherjee • In Parliament • • On Right To Strike • • Govt Refuses To Ratify Core ILO Conventions • • On Payment Of Dues To PSU Workers • Comrade Hiren Mukherjee • BALCO: Stop Sale of Residual Govt. Shares • EPF Interest Rate Reduction Unacceptable: CITU • Reports & Events • • Orissa: State Level Rally Before Assembly House • • Beedi Workers Demonstration • • Jammu and Kashmir: TU Coordination Committee Meets • • Govt Employees To Hold National Convention And March To Parliament • • Himachal Pradesh: Joint Trade Union Convention • • Punjab: Massive Rally Of Cycle Industry Workers • • Truckers Strike: Transport Workers Seek Representation In Talks • • Tripura: CITU Observes Campaign Week • • Tamilnadu CITU Observes Campaign Week • • State Conference Of TNMSRA • • Strike Threat Compelled British Airways to Agree Wage Rise • • Domestic Workers Unite and Organize to Fight • • Bombay High Court Directive: An Unwarranted Incursion Into Democratic Rights • BTR on Casteism & Untouchability • CITU Organises All India TU Classes

1 Sept 2004

Pandhe, M. K., Ganguly, P. K., Majumdar, Chittabrata +1

In This Issue: • Meeting of the Working Committee: Notice • Editorial: Why Dither On Employment Guarantee? • Indian TU Delegation In China – M. K. Pandhe • Sales Promotion Employees All India Convention • Textile And Clothing Industry In India: Phasing Out Of The MFA – P. K. Ganguly • Chandidas Sinha • Missiles In Imported Scraps: Workers Die In Explosion: Entire Sahibabad Industrial Area On Strike • Brick-Kiln Industry In Doldrums • Globalisation & New Form Of Recruitment – Chittabrata Majumdar • Dattopant Thengadi • Trade Union Classes: A Modest Beginning – Κanai Βannerjee • Working Women Convention • Reports & Events • • Jammu Railway Project: Construction Workers Continue Strike • • All India Beedi Workers Federation: Mangalore Gearing Up To Host Conference • • Kolkata: NPMO Demands Reversal Of Economic Policy • • Visakhapatnam: Steel Workers' Conference • • Tamilnadu: Movement Against Tuticorin Port Privatisation • • Anganwadi Workers Launch Signature Campaign • • Karnataka: Anganwadi Workers' Successful Struggle • • Tamil Nadu: LIC Working Women Convention • • Bihar: Transport Workers Demonstrate • • To Review The Electricity Act 2003: Electricity Workers Prepare For Struggle • • Beedi Workers State-Level Dharna • • Divestment Move In BSNL Opposed • • Nabard Employees' Strike On October 5 • • Uttar Pradesh: Police Firing In Ferozabad: Protest Day Observed • • Delhi: Shifting Of Small Scale Industries Opposed • • One-Hour Strike By Insurance Employees • Why To Scrap Press Note 18? In Who's Interest? • BTR Centenary: The Great October Socialist Revolution

1 Nov 2004