Centre of Indian Trade Unions
(CITU)
B. T. Ranadive Bhawan, 13
A, Rouse Avenue,
New Delhi- 110 002
Phone nos 91-11-23221288, 23221306,
Fax- 91-11-23221284
website:citucentre.org
30th March 2016
Press Statement
COUNTRYWIDE GENERAL STRIKE ON 2ND
SEPTEMBER 2016
Massive Preparatory Campaign and
Agitation to Precede Strike
The Joint National Convention of Central Trade Unions and
Industrial Federations held in Mavalankar Hall in Delhi on 30th
March 2016 called the working class of the country to observe a country wide
general strike on 2nd September 2016 against the anti people, anti
national and anti worker policies of the NDA government.
Hundreds of workers from all over the country employed
in the organised and unorganised sectors, public and private sectors – from
public sector undertakings, banks, insurance, defence, state and central
government departments, railways, telecom, port and dock, road transport,
electricity, construction, different schemes of the government of India, home
based workers, domestic workers and from many other sectors participated in the
convention.
The Convention strongly criticised the NDA government
for its total apathy towards the genuine demands that were being continuously
raised by the united trade union movement through their 12 point charter of
demands. The government’s practice of bypassing the Parliament and implement
pro management measures through executive orders was seriously condemned by the
Convention. It strongly criticised the government for totally ignoring the
consensus recommendations of the Indian Labour Conference related to minimum
wages, contract workers and scheme workers.
The Convention unanimously adopted resolutions
condemning the Haryana government which has introduced Rajasthan type
amendments to the labour laws, against the brutal lathi charge on the Honda
workers in Rajasthan, against the labour law violations by the MNCs and in
solidarity with the Pricol workers in Tamil Nadu and Maruti workers in Haryana.
The Convention called upon the working class to
observe country wide general strike on 2nd September 2016 and start
massive joint preparations at once to ensure that the participation of workers
in the strike surpass even that in the general strike last year on the same
day. It called upon the working class to take the unity attained at the
national level to the grass root and work place level and also extend the unity
to all other toiling sections of the society like the peasants, agricultural
workers etc.
The Convention decided to take up the following
programmes in preparation for the strike:
- Joint conventions at the state, district and industry level during June – July 2016. The campaign to involve peasants, agricultural workers and all sections of toiling people in general
- Day long Satyagraha at the state capitals and industrial centres on 9th August, on the Quit India Day
- In addition innovative joint actions as part of the campaign as decided at the state level
The Convention was presided by Amit
Yadav (INTUC), Amarjeet Kaur (AITUC) Raja Sreedhar (HMS), A K
Padmanabhan(CITU), Satyavan Singh (AIUTUC), Sanjana (SEWA), Santosh Ray
(AICCTU), Shatrujeet Singh (UTUC) and Mohan Kumar (LPF). G Sanjeeva Reddy from
INTUC, Gurudas Dasgupta from AITUC, Harbhajan Singh Siddu from HMS, Tapan Sen
from CITU, Sankar Saha from AIUTUC, Lata Yadav from SEWA, Santosh Rai from
AICCTU, Abani Roy from UTUC and Subbaraman from LPF addressed the Convention.
Issued by,
(TAPAN SEN)
General Secretary
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