Renewed Attacks on Rights are Ahead! On the eve of May Day 2020, the International Labour Organization has, for the third time, reinforced its dire predictions of the effect of the ongoing pandemic on workers’ jobs. Its spotlight is firmly on the unorganized sector. Nearly half of the global workforce […]
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IFTU National Committee Demands Withdrawal of Central Circular Freezing DA of Govt. Employees!
Within weeks of making all Central Govt. employees contribute compulsorily to the PM Cares fund, which is going to remain unaudited, the Central Govt. has brought out a circular freezing DA up to July 2021 for employees and pensioners of Central Govt. Done in the garb of fighting the pandemic, […]
CALL ON MAY DAY 2020
May Day Zindabad! Workers of the World, Revolutionary Change The Only Way! Comrade Workers Of India! This May Day, Protest Against Callous and Anti Worker Measures of Central Govt Against Pandemic! Comrades, May Day 2020 has come at a time when people all over the world are facing a […]
Central Govt. Responsible For Suicide Of Worker!
Universalize PDS Immediately With Stat Doorstep Delivery ! Migrant workers walked kilometre after kilometre from city after city, running away from sure hunger and need to become beggars. They are still walking in thousands, even though a maximum have failed to reach. Over 40 workers died in this attempt. Workers are sticking it out […]
Jute Workers’ Protest in West Bengal & AP
21 Unions of Jute Workers (Except those affiliated to BJP and TMC) went for a half an hour Dharna in front of factory Gates today on April 17, 2020 demanding not 15 percent but full attendence, and paymennts for lock down period. IFTU workers participated in organizing and conducting these protests. […]
TUs’ Memorandum Against Legislation of Labour Codes by Stealth
MEMORANDUM 13thApril 2020 To, The Union Labour Minister Government of India New Delhi Sir, Sub: Legislation of Labour Codes by Stealth It has been brought to our notice that the Government of India is in the process of enforcing the three labour codes namely the Industrial Relations Code 2019, the […]
Delhi : Workers in Shelter Homes Lathi-charged
One of the important shelter homes of Delhi Govt which has been a centre for “feeding migrants” is the one on the banks of the Yamuna near the main Interstate Bus Terminal or ISBT. It was much photographed in the initial periods of lock down to show how over 3000 […]
Win the Confidence of the People to Fight Corona Virus!
There is little point in ignoring the fact that the medical challenge of limiting the spread of the novel corona virus has been superimposed on an India in the throes of a struggle against the communal NPR NRC CAA project. A lockdown was abruptly imposed on the country to limit […]
IFTU condemns arrest of workers in Surat (Gujarat)
Gujarat Govt, Withdraw Charges Against Arrested Workers in Surat! Ensure Wages, Dignified Existence to Workers! In a mammoth tragic expression of the contemptuous attitude of govts towards workers, hundreds of migrant workers poured out onto the streets of Surat on 10th April night. They demanded wages, they demanded they be […]
A Tribute to an Inspiration
PK Murthy—From Puducherry to Chindwara and Back “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”-Albert Camus He would walk briskly with a bamboo pole hung on his shoulder with two vessels on […]
