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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

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

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

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

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

Ghosh, Kali, Dakshi, Ardhendu, Varada Rajan, W. R. +1

In This Issue: • Com Sukhdev Singh • Yugoslavian Embassy Thanks CITU • To The People For A New Mandate! • CITU Manifesto For May Day 1999 • 35th Session Of ILC: Workers’ Side Protests ‘Tailking Shop’ Exercise • CITU Highlights Workers’ Resentment • Industrial Sickness And Employment Generation: Strident Criticism Of 35 Session Of ILC: Govt Indifference • Alternative Approach Outlined Before ILC: "Review Policy Of Mindless Privatisation And Liberalisation" • Crisis Of Indian Railways And The Status Paper • Employees State Insurance Scheme (ESI) - Need For Speedy Overhauling - Kali Ghosh & Ardhendu Dakshi • ‘Oasis’: Code Name For Milking Workers’ Funds To Quench The Greed Of Big Business – W. R. Varada Rajan • Diversion of PF/Pension Funds to Private Sector Mutual Fund flayed • Southern Initiative Against Globalisation • Nationwide Strike Of Coal Miners On 11-12 May – M. K. Pandhe • CITU Himachal Pradesh Decides Future Action • Steel Workers Federation Conference • Newspaper Employees Strike • All India Locomen Meet • Construction Workers’ Conference • Rajasthan: CITU Workshop On Organisation • HP: Anganwadi Workers • Committee Of Public Sector Trade Unions Notice • Tamilnadu: CITU - ILO Training Camp • Demands Of SAIL Contract Workers • High Court Reinstates Contract Workers • International Demand For Halt To Liberalisation, Review Of WTO Role • Supreme Court Upholds Contract Workers’ Right To Regular Job • Denial Of Subsistence Allowance, Inhuman: SC

1 May 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

Pandhe, M. K., Mukherjee, Dipankar, Balanandan, E. +2

In This Issue: • Relevance Of The November Revolution For The Working Class – M. K. Pandhe • Editorial: One Year Of BJP Governance.... Down The Disaster Lane • Petroleum Price Hike - Height Of Deceit And Deception - Dipankar Mukherjee • CITU Denounces Oil Price Hike • 13 Oct 2000: Protest Day Observed • ‘Wishing Away’ The Trade Unions – E. Balanandan • Linking Of Labour Standards With International Trade • An open letter to Mr. Mark Brown, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - Ardhendu Dakshi • "Vimal Ranadive Reminiscences" • Egyptian TU Federation Condemns Israel • World Conference Against Nuclear Bombs – M. M. Varghese • CITU Appeals For Flood Relief For West Bengal • State CITU Conference Calls For Struggles • Wage Agreement In N.B.C.C. • Protest Day Against Globalisation • Defence Employees National Convention • BEFI Demands Fresh Option For Pension • Maruti Udyog Locked Out: Repression Let Loose • Bharat Gold Mines Winding Up Stayed • BEL Employees Dharna • Com. M. S. Krishnan • Against anti-people, anti-national economic policies; Against Communalism: Massive Workers’ Demonstration At Delhi; Mass Petition Carrying Crores of Signatures Submitted to President of India

1 Nov 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