Trade unions meet

The Central Trade Unions meeting.

The Central Trade Unions met on 19th July 2009 at the INTUC's headquarters at New Delhi expressed serious concern over:
* Rising prices of the essential commodities including food grains and vegetables creating severe hardships for the mass of the people;
* Continuing job losses resulting in loss of livelihood to millions of the workers across the sectors owing to recession and economic slowdown;
* Non-implementation of and rampant violation of basic labour laws pertaining to minimum wages, working hours, social security, safety in workplace and trade union rights etc throughout the country adding to the sufferings of the entire toiling people;
* Extreme inadequacy of the provisions and schemes under the Unorganised Workers’ Social Security Act 2008 to provide any substantive relief to the vast multitude of unorganized sector workers including the contract workers owing to the restrictive provisions under the schemes and absence of any National Fund for the Unorganised Sector (NAFUS) as recommended by the NCEUS and Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour;
* Move of the Govt for disinvestment of shares in Central Public Sector Enterprises.
The Central Trade Unions call upon the workers and employees and their unions irrespective of affiliations to unitedly highlight their concern over the abovementioned burning issues facing them and at the same time urge upon the Government to take urgent remedial/corrective measures to address the aforesaid concerns of working people effectively.
The Central Trade Unions decided to submit a memorandum to the Prime Minister on the aforesaid issues and hold a National Convention of Trade Unions at Delhi in September 2009 to chalk out common action programs.
Leaders from INTUC, AITUC, HMS, CITU and AICCTU attended the meeting. BMS, UTUC and TUCC could not come to the meeting but expressed their support to the proposal.