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Pandhe, M. K., Sen, Tapan, Ganguly, P. K. +1

In This Issue: • Japanese Peace Delegation Visits India • Defeat This Fanaticism! • NPMO To Intensify Struggle • Com Z A Ahmed • II National Commission on Labour: Move To Usher In Deregulated Labour Market – W. R. Varada Rajan • Comrade K M Haribhat • Overhaul Economic Policy Reforms: CITU • Pre Budget Consultations, 1999-2000: CITU Memorandum • “Is There A Govt. Functioning Here At All?”: BMS • IRA Bill: Halt This Madness • Sexual Harassment Is A Violation Of Fundamental Right: Supreme Court Verdict • Com. Gopal Basu • To Save Coal Industry PSUs Coal Miners’ Prepare For Movement – M. K. Pandhe • Amartya Sen Honoured - Tapan Sen • Haryana: Unprecedented Repression • BHEL Hyderabad : INTUC, BMS Defeated • 8th Conference Of AP CITU • West Bengal: Organising New Area • Goa: Repression & Terror On Mine Workers • Com Radhika Banerjee • J&K State Govt Employees’ 18 Days’ Strike • Com. Naresh Dasgupta • Karnataka: Panchayat Employees’ Meet • Revive NPCC In National Interest • Construction PSUs Facing Serious Crisis • Delhi: State CITU Meets • Tamil Nadu CITU Intensifies Campaign • Manipur Employees On Strike • CITU Denounces Cabinet Decisions • U. S. Barbarism – P. K. Ganguly • International Seminar : World Energy Scenario On The Eve Of 21st Century • Day Of The Fat Wallet: Spiffy Growth In Top Income Bracket - Rich Get Richer In Post-Reforms India, Lower Income Crowd Thins

1 Feb 1999

Varada Rajan, W. R., Arjun, N. S., Dakshi, Ardhendu +1

In This Issue: • UN Must Save World From Warfare And Under-Development (Speech by Fidel Castro Ruz, at the Millennium Summit, United Nations, on September 6, 2000) • Editorial: A Swadeshi’s Videsh Yatra • 6th All India Conference Of Working Women • Working Women: Organisational Issues & Tasks • Andhra Pradesh: Reforms By The Bullet – W. R. Varda Rajan & N. S. Arjun • Massive Delhi Rally On 27th September • Anti Union Repression Worldwide • Without Comments: Hypocrisy Thy Name Is World Bank! • Economy On Rails! Heading Where? • Public Sector Workers Decide On Future Actions • Attacking Poverty! World Bank Style – A. Dakshi • CITU Protests Coal Settlement • Country Wide Movement By Textile Workers • Kanpur: Textiles Convention • Tamilnadu CITU State Conference • Bank Employees Fight Privatisation/VRS • Privatisation Of Marine Engineering Institute Opposed • Massive Rally By FMRAI • “Revive Winter Sports Project” • Pension Case In Supreme Court • Wage-Agreement For BHEL Employees • NPCC Revival Urged • Ichalkaranji Powerloom Workers Repression • Telecom: Struggle Against Corporatisation • Verdict On Hartal - Ninan Koshy

1 Oct 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.

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

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

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

Balanandan, E., Pandhe, M. K., Varada Rajan, W. R. +2

In This Issue: • CITU General Council Meets At Chennai • Com. Bimal Singha • Com P G K Krishnan • Capitalism : Enemy Of Open Society - E. Balanandan • Comrade K. L. Malabade • Interim Wage Increase For Coal Workers • The New Situation, Dangers And Tasks Ahead – M. K. Pandhe • Pseudo Swadeshi Stands Exposed – W. R. Varada Rajan • Capital Misery • CITU Highlights Pressing Issues Of Labour • Union Labour Minister called a meeting of Central Trade Unions and Employers organisations. The points made by M.K. Pandhe, General Secretary, CITU, at the meeting • Pre-budget consultation with Finance Minister: CITU Flays Fund-Bank Dictated Economic Policies • Towards A Two Days Nation Wide Strike. Public Sector Workers Plan Campaign & Agitations • Take Lead, For Successful Implementation: CITU Call • What Ails Employees' State Insurance Scheme? How To Remedy? - Kali Ghosh • WFTU Memorandum To WTO • Historic Struggle Of Delhi Nurses – A. R. Sindhu • Vajpayee Govt. On Contract Awarding Spree; CITU Expresses Serious Concern • ZENROREN’s May Day Message To CITU • 3 Days-Strike By FMRAI • Major Win For Maritime Union Of Australia

1 Jun 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

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

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

Ganguly, P. K., Dev Roye, Swadesh, Pandhe, M. K. +1

In This Issue: • Centre Of Indian Trade Unions Working Committee Meeting, Guwahati, December 13-15, 1993: Presidential Address • CITU Working Committee Meeting Denounces Govt for Signing Dunkel Draft: Calls For Countrywide Agitation – P. K. Ganguly • Working Committee Meeting Of CITU, Guwahati 13-15 December, 1993: Resolution Against The Economic Policies and on The Next Phase of Movement • Massive Rally In Capital Denounce Dunkel Draft: Thousands Court Arrest In Protest • Workers Dharna Protests Proposed IR Bill • CITU Demands Reversal Of Economic And Fiscal Policies • Beedi Worker’s Conference Decides for Countrywide Movement – P. K. Ganguly • 7th Convention of LIC Working Women, Coimbatore • Working Women Demand withdrawal of the Amendment to the Maternity Benefit Act • Countrywide Movement Plan By Textile Mill Workers Against Closures • Successful struggle by Unorganised Workers • Victorious Strike of Haryana Govt Employees • Successful Strike Of Postal Employees • Coal Unions To Strike On 31st January, 1994 • Hundreds of Fertilizer Workers Court Arrest Before Parliament House - Swadesh Dev Roye • Asian Employment Planners Meet Highlights Growing Unemployment – M. K. Pandhe • 89th Birth Anniversary of B T Ranadive: National Symposium On Trade Union Unity - Jibon Roy

1 Jan 1994

Pandhe, M. K., Ranadive, B. T., Sen, Tapan +2

In This Issue: • A Blueprint For Whole Sale Privatisation – M. K. Pandhe • BMS. Also Lashes Out At Mania Of Privatisation • Vrs Galore! • Remembering Comrade B.T.R.: Unemployment And The Working Class – B. T. Ranadive Tapan Sen Justice B. P. Jeevan Reddy Kanai Banerjee • Closure Of PSUs - Swadeshi Style - Tapan Sen Justice B. P. Jeevan Reddy Kanai Banerjee • Com. Jadhav Prasad • Economic Liberalisation And Human Development - Justice B. P. Jeevan Reddy Kanai Banerjee • Foil The Conspiracy Against Coal Industry • Threat From Foreign Funded NGOs – Kanai Banerjee • 8th National Congress Of VGCL • Vietnam: Situation Of Workers • TUI Of Public And Allied Employees: Ninth World Congress • Coal Miners To Join Strike On 10-11 December • M. K. Pandhe Elected Vice Chairman • CITU Orissa State 7th Conference • HSCL Union Conference • Bihar: Massive CITU Rally • Country Wide Strike By Sugar Workers • Strike By Telecom Employees • Without Comments. Too Many Holes In PM's Economic Package • Himachal: Anganwadi Conference • CPSTU Denounces Closure Of Eight PSUs • HSCL: Joint All India Convention • Assam NPMO Convention • Bangalore: JAF Convention • Uttar Pradesh: NPMO Convention • Day Long Meetings, Rally In Patna • South Korea’s ‘IMF Orphans’ • 13th National Congress Of ACFTU

1 Dec 1998

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

Ganguly, P. K., Sen, Sukomal, Majumdar, Chittabrata +2

In This Issue: • The Hidden Agenda Surfaces • NPMO Call: 30th Nov Mass Rally In State Capitals! Intensify Campaign For 11th Dec Strike! • 81st Anniversary Of October Revolution – P. K. Ganguly • Com. Dasarath Deb • Working Committee Meeting, Ahmedabad, 22-24, December, 1998: Notice • Catastrophe In Russia: A New Showdown In The Offing - Sukomal Sen • Technological Advancement: Can It Sustain Capitalist Development? - Chittabrata Majumdar • Colombo: Forum For Union Leaders: Neoliberal Globalisation: Indian Experience • A Profile Of Indian Economy • Wage Rates In The Global Hiring Hall For Production: Workers In Manufacturing • Foreign Funding Of Indian NGOs - Kanai Banerjee • Govt. Contribution To Pension Scheme: CITU Opposes Move For Withdrawal • South Korea: Attacks On Workers • Violence At Workplace • Plantation Workers Plan For Struggle • Hindi Region CITU Leaders Meet • Tamilnadu Prepares For Strike • Pharmaceutical Workers’ Convention • TUI World Congress • HSCL: Forced Retirement Opposed • HIV/AIDS: Prevention And Control At Workplace • “Overhaul World's FIs’ - WFTU • A Worker Asks Who Are The Real Experts? • FEMA & PML Bills - Legitimising Hawala • Gender Eye On....Economic Crisis • The Golden Hand-Shake - Ardhendu Dakshi

1 Nov 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

Balanandan, E., Ganguly, P. K., Sundaram, N. M. +2

In This Issue: • Working Committee Meeting, New Delhi, June 7-9, 1996: Address by the President - E. Balanandan • CITU Working Committee Supports UF Government; With The Right To Oppose The Negative Points In The Minimum Programme – P. K. Ganguly • Main Resolution of the Working Committee: The Present Situation and the Trade Union Movement • CITU Working Committee Observes Second Death Anniversary Of Com. Kim Il Sung • CITU Opposes Govt Guideline To Reduce Manpower • Joint Statement issued by various organisations of Central Government employees on the Statement made by Shri P Chidambaram, Minister of Finance • CITU Opposes Any Move To Close Down 40 NTC Mills • State Level Convention of Textile Workers in Orissa • Report on Working Women in West Bengal • All India Plantation Workers’ Conference in Assam in December • AIIEA Opposes Insurance Reforms – N. M. Sundaram • Report of AP Anganwadi Workers and Helpers Union - K. Hemalata • TUs Demand Immediate Steps for Revivial of Sick Units Within PSU Framework in the Meeting with Prime Minister • Meeting With Finance Minister • Wage Negotiation in Cement Industry Workers to get an increase of minimum Rs 900.00; Proposed strike from 24th June deferred • Joint Forum Of South Asian Trade Unions - Swadesh Dev Roye • Question of Politicalisation of the Working Class - Sukomal Sen • Japan Newsletter: 78000 Strong Rallies on May Day ’96 in Japan • South African Labour Movement Proposes to Govt

1 Jul 1996

Pandhe, M. K., Raghunatha Reddy, A.

In This Issue: • Forward To A Countrywide Struggle Against BJP Govt's Economic Policies And Communalism – M. K. Pandhe • Insurance Sector: Implications Of Opening Up – A. Raghunatha Reddy • National Platform Of Mass Organisations: Call For All India General Strike On 11.12.98: Declaration • Abolish Bonus Act Ceilings: CITU • Call Of National Convention Of PSU Workers: All India Strike In PSUs On 10 & 11.12.1998: Declaration • TUI World Congress • 1998 World Conference Against A&H Bombs • Financial Assistance To Workers: West Bengal Scheme • WB: All TUs Demand Repeal Of Bonus Ceiling • Mumbai TU Convention Plans State Wide Action • Jabalpur Earthquake Victims: Insurance Employees Organise Relief • Bihar State CITU Meets • Tamil Nadu: Campaigns And Struggles • Karnataka CITU Steers NPMO Activities • West Bengal: PSU Workers’ Convention • Postal Workers’ Strike Gains • Unions Urge Revival Of CIWTC • Bank Strike: 18.9.1998 • Central TUs Oppose Tata Airlines Proposal • Govt. Notifications • Coordinated Struggle At Calcutta Airport • Himachal: Convention At Parwanoo • MP: CITU Opposes BALCO Privatisation • Workers Fight Sale Of CCI Units • All India Convention Of Anganwadi Workers • CITU Condemns Denial Of IR To Sick PSUs • Massive Strike By Industrial Workers At Delhi • South Korea: Workers’ Resistance • “Reverse” Migration In Asia • CITU Greets GFTUK • USA: 54 Days - Strike In General Motors • Tell Tale Figures On Labour Cost • Japan Women Workers’ Study Tour

1 Sept 1998