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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

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

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

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

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

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., 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