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Ganguly, P. K., Balanandan, E.

In This Issue: • Call Of CITU Working Committee: Raise Mass Struggles To New Heights – P. K. Ganguly • Working Committee Meeting, Bhilai, 2-4 November, 1995: Presidential Address - E. Balanandan • RESOLUTIONS: On Forthcoming programmes of National Platform of Mass Organisations, On Sell Out Of Bailadila Mine, On Amendment Of Payment Of Bonus Act, Resolution On Beijing Conference On Women, On Solidarity With Cuba, On Wage Revision Of Central Govt Employees And The Fifth Central Pay Commission, Resolution in support of the decision on launching indefinite strike in Jute Industry from 29th Nov., 1995 by all Central Trade Unions operating in Jute Industry, 12th December Jail Bharo By Textile Workers, Resolution On US-Pakistan Arms Deal: Demand immediate scrapping of the said Indo-US Cooperation deal, Resolution On Fishing Worker Struggle, On Bank Strike, On Accident In Bhilai Steel Plant On 2nd Nov. 1995, Resolution On Pension Scheme • CITU Reiterates Opposition To Govt Draft On Pension Scheme And The Ordinance In The Meeting With Labour Minister • Agitation Spread All Over Against Pension Scheme And The Ordinance • Fisheries Workers To Go On Conuntrywide Strike • Trade Union School For The Steel Workers • Indian Labour Conference: Government Guillotined for Casual Approach to Labour Problems – P. K. Ganguly • Conclusions of the 32nd Session of the Indian Labour Conference (ILC): Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi: 23rd and 24th November, 1995

1 Dec 1995

Balanandan, E., Raman Kutty, P. S., Krishnan, P. R.

In This Issue: • Comrade Deng Xiao Ping • Com. Sitaram Gupta • Public Sector Workers Strike on 2nd April • JAC Decides for Dharna before Prime Ministers Place on February 25 and 26 for Revival of NTC Mills • CITU Demands Judicial Enquiry Over Police Firing On Textile Workers Killing Three Workmen In Bangalore • Letter written by E. Balanandan M.P • Letter by Jibon Roy, MP • March To Parliament By AIAWU • CITU Demands Disbursal of Wages and Working Capital in IDPL • Total Strike of Powerloom Workers in Ahmedabad • CITU Opposes Retrograde Recommendations Of Fifth Pay Commission • Confederation of Central Govt Employees & Workers • Statement of the Leaders of the Confederation of Central Govt Employees & Workers • All India State Govt Employees Federation • Blessed he is who expects nothing for he shall never be disappointed ...(Pope) – P. S. Raman Kutty • Bank Employees and Officers to Strike on April 4 • Maharashtra: CITU 8th Successful State Conference At Nasik – P. R. Krishnan • 7th State Conference: State Wide Campaign in Tamilnadu • 7th Conference of Singareni-Collieries Employees Union • Working Womens Convention at Vishakhapatnam • First State Conference of Punjab-Chandigarh Medical Representatives Union • The Writing on the Wall: It's Still Poverty, Stupid! • National Workshop Of Central Public Sector Trade Unions On Charter Of Demands • CITU Union Wins Works Committee Election

1 Mar 1997

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

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

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

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

Ranadive, B. T., Ganguly, P. K.

In This Issue: • Right to Work And Unemployment Problem – B. T. Ranadive • National Seminar on Agricultural Workers – P. K. Ganguly • CITU Calls for Observance of May Day Centenary • CITU Delegation meets Labour Minister in respect of restarting Raja Mills, Bangalore • International Women's Day Celebrations at Delhi • Railwaymen’s Struggle: Railway Canteen Employees are Railway Employees—Supreme Court • Steel Plant Unions Review Safety Activities • Demands Day by Assam Plantation Workers • Mass Dharna by Bank Employees • 29th I.L.C: CITU Delegation Meets Labour Minister • Conference of Tripura Rickshaw Shramik Union • Against Unemployment: Statewide Campaign in Tamilnadu • Massive Raily at Palwal against Police Firing and Closure • Central Budget • CITU Criticises Railway Budget • Civil Aviation Minister Assures to End All Discrimination Against Air Hostesses • Public Sector Unions To Launch Movement on Pending Issues • Bharat Electronics Workers to Protest Against Arbitrary Bifurcation and Victimisation • CITU Union Accorded Recognition in Salem Steel Plant • Sugar Workers to Stage Dharna before Labour Ministry • International Struggles • Namibia is Free

1 Apr 1990

Ganguly, P. K., Pandhe, M. K., Roy, Jibon

In This Issue: • Against Economic Policies Of The Government: Trade Unions Call for Countrywide Strike • Steel Workers Protest Govt Policy of Bailing out the Country • Fertilizer Workers to Launch Nationwide Agitation • Meeting with Trade Unions: Finance Minister on the Defensive – P. K. Ganguly • CITU Appeals for United Strike Action against the Economic Measures taken by the Government • W. Bengal Prepared for United Strike Action • Punjab CITU for Strike Action • Maharashtra Prepare for Strike • Assam CITU Gearing Up for Strike Action • CITU Led Successful Struggle in Vizag Steel Plant • Punjab Working Women’s Convention • Conference of NPCC Workers Union • September Programmes Against Economic Policies of the Government • The offensive of Privatisation – M. K. Pandhe • 6th September—Bank Employees’ Strike: Joint Declaration by Bank Unions against Privatisation of banks • 20 Years of ‘The Working Class’ • Special Seamen's Convention • CITU Condemns Strike Decision by Drug Cartels • CITU Demands Drastic Punishment to Murderers of Chundur Harijans • ACFTU Acknowledges CITU’s Sympathy for Disaster Hit People • 1st Aug. 1991 Observed as ‘Anti-Privatisation Day’ by Civil Aviation Employees in Bombay • Tamilnadu Moves for Strike Action • Small Scale industry under Big Business Stranglehold • 51st Conference of the Bengal Chetkal Mazdoor Union • Construction workers to go on All India Strike • Rail workers Convention Against ‘Human Rights’ Violation • Tasks Ahead of Trade Union Movement - Jibon Roy • Focus in Parliament: Government Grilled on Economic Policies • CITU Rejects Pension Scheme Proposed by the Central Board of Trustees (Provident Fund)

1 Sept 1991

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., 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