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24th Session of the All-India Trade Union Congress 1954
(All-India Trade Union Congress, 1955) All-India Trade Union Congress
Includes: Appeal to all workers and trade unions for unity. Review of the 24th Session. Preparations and proceedings. AITUC presidential speech by V. Chakkarai Chettlar. Greetings to the session. REPORT OF THE GENERAL SECRETARY: Vigilance against warmongers; Economic condition; The struggles; Fight for living wage; Labour laws – Some gains and losses; Trade union rights and democratic liberties; Trade union unity; International solidarity – WFTU. Report on the organisation of the AITUC: Centre; State TUCs; International solidarity – WFTU. RESOLUTIONS on: Martyrs; Condolence resolutions; Affiliations; WFTU; Greetings to AUCCTU Congress; Thanks for hospital aid; Unemployment; Rationalisation and speed-up; Peace; Trade union rights and democratic liberties; Industrial relations; Social security; Discrimination in granting passports; French and Portuguese possessions in India; Contract labour; Industrial housing; Railwaymen’s demands; Cotton tetile industry and its workers; Jute industry and workers; Plantation industry; Handloom industry; Coal miners’ demands; Manganese; Petroleum workers; Silk industry workers; Railway colleries; Calcutta tramway workers; Motor transport workers; Bank employees’ movement; Insurance employees; Working women; Teachers; Multi-purpose construction project workers; Civil employees; Retrenchment of civil services employees; Defence industry workers; Cement workers; Motion picture employees; Electricity supply workers’ demands; Leather workers; Burnour workers; Kolar gold fields; Mica industry; Shellac industry; University and other educational institution workers; Hotel workers; Central PWD workers; Harbour and post trust workers; Beedi workers; Shop and commercial employees; Rickshaw workers; Coir industry; Goldsmiths; Tile and brick workers; Playwood and tea-chest workers; Building and road construction workers; Glass industry workers; Municipal workers; Cashew workers; Refugee rehabilitation; Neiveli-Lignite mining; Printing and dyeing industry; Agricultural workers; AITUC film; Amendments to the constitution; Working committee; Trade union press. Appendices: Office bearers, accounts, record of struggles and disputes.
24th Session of the All-India Trade Union Congress : Reports & resolutions. Calcutta, May 27-29, 1954
(All-India Trade Union Congress, 1954) All-India Trade Union Congress
See note on title. Includes: An appeal to all workers and trade unions for unity
29th Standing Labour Committee And Labour Policy: Part I
(All-India Trade Union Congress, 1970) All-India Trade Union Congress
Contents: Standing Labour Committee Papers. Action taken on conclusions of 28th session of SLC – JuIy 1968
31st Session All-India Trade Union Congress : Reports on Industries. Reports on Condition of Workers in Certain Industries. Visakhapatnam, 26 - 31 October 1980
(All-India Trade Union Congress, 1980) All-India Trade Union Congress
Includes reports on the following industries: Road transport
31st Session All-India Trade Union Congress : Reports on Industries. Reports on Condition of Workers in Certain Industries. Visakhapatnam, 26 - 31 October 1980 [Pt 2]
(All-India Trade Union Congress, 1980) All-India Trade Union Congress
Includes reports on the following industries: Preface by the AITUC secretary; Welcome address by chairman of the reception committee M. V. Bhadram; AITUC presidents’ inaugural address Dange, Shripad Amrit; condolence resolutions; list of delegations from abroad; Messages received from overseas unions and Indian politicians and supporters; Speeches from fraternal delegates from abroad—World Federation of Trade Union (WFTU) acting general secretary Ibrahim Zakaria; All-Union Central Committee of Trade Unions secretary V. F. Bogatikov; Central Council of Trade Unions of Afghanistan member Fazal Ahmed Chakhansory; Bangladesh Trade Union Kendra vice-president Nur-Ur-Islam; Central Council of Czechoslavak Trade Unions secretary Jirina Vesela; Trade Union of National Salvation of Kampuchea organisation department secretary Chan Vanny; Central Council of Mongolian Trade Unions member G. Gelenkhu; Vietnam Federation of Trade Unions secretariat member Tran Anh Lien; Central Council of Confederation of Trade Unions of Yugoslavia presidium member Janos Sreder; West Germany’s FDGB member Fritz Roesel; Central Council of Hungarian Trade Unions international department head Karoly Szlovatsik; Committee for International Trade Unions Unity in Australia representative Don Henderson. Resolutions on: Disarmament and duty of the working class; Diego Garcia; Iran-Iraq war; Solidarity with Kampuchea, Vietnam and Laos; With the Afghan revolution; Solidarity with the struggle in Southern Africa and Namibia; Repression in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka; Solidarity with working people of Latin America; Solidarity with Palestinian People’s struggle; Solidarity with workers and people of Korea; Solidarity with the workers of Turkey; Bonus; Wages and DA; Industrial relations law; Against anti-democratic ordinances; Trade union unity; Social Security; Right to work and employment; Reduction of working hours; Agricultural workers; Working women; Prices; Minimum wages in scheduled employments; Rectify the consumer price index; Lock-outs and closures; Communal disturbances; North-eastern region; In support of journalists and newspaper employees; Solidarity with the struggle of Life Insurance Corporation and the General Insurance Corporation employees; Repression, Firings and attacks on trade unions; Support to the struggles of the peasantry; Nationalism of industries which have been taken over; Retrenchment of tobacco workers; Nationalisation of tea concerns; Pollution; Vijayanagaer steel plant; Beedi workers and their demands; Sixth (five-year) plan frame; Demands of the railway workers. Appeal to all workers: Forward to end the miseries of capitalist rule. Workers’ pledge on the 60th anniversary of AITUC. Reports of commissions on: Wages, dearness allowance and bonus; Social security; Trade union rights and unity. Lists of elected office bearers, members of the working committee, the general council. Credential committee report: union membership numbers by area and industry.
32nd Session All-India Trade Union Congress, Bangalore: December 15-20, 1983
(All-India Trade Union Congress, 1983) All-India Trade Union Congress
Includes condolence resolutions; Welcome address by reception committee chairman M. C. Narasimhan; Address from chairman of the presidium N. K. Krishnan; messages received; List of delegates from abroad; Speeches from fraternal delegates—World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) general secretary Ibrahim Zakaria; Soviet Trade Union delegation leader AUCCTU secretary V. Makeyev; Cuban delegation speech; Syrian Trade Union Federation member Omar Kanari; Jatio Sramik League Bangladesh assistant secretary Rafiquddin Ahmed; Central Council of Czeckslovak Trade Union secretary Miroslav Spaniel; Central Council of Bulgarian Trade Unions secretary Georgi Karaulanov; Bangladesh Trade Union Kendra secretary Shah Alam; Vietnam Federation of Trade Unions Nguyen Thuyet; French Confederation of Labour (CGT) France secretary Rane Comet; West Germany’s FDGB representative Herald Buhl; International Trade Union Unity Committee of Australia J. McCarthy; Central Council of Afghanistan trade Unions A. S. Purdelli; Ceylon Federation of Trade Unions M. G. Mendis; Central Council of Mongolian Trade Unions N. Myagmar; ILO regional office S. Sankar Narayanan; National Federation of Indian Women Tara Reddy; Bharatiya Khet Mazdoor Union G. Yallamanda Reddy; All India Banak Employees Association (AIBEA) president Prabhat Kar; Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) general secretary Samar Mukherjee, MP. Resolutions on: Solidarity with the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan; West Asian situation; Repression in Turkey; Grenada; Support to struggle of the people of Cyprus; Support for the Korean people; Kampuchea; Support to the democratic movement in Bangladesh; Young workers; Demands of agricultural workers; Withdraw the anti-labour bills and laws; Bonus; Nationalisation of the iron ore industry; nationalisation of textile industry; Against the racist regime in South Africa and in support of Namibia; Railwaymen and other central government employees; Commissioning the Vijaynagar steel plant; Safety in mines; De-notification of industrial units; Against LIC Employees’ Organisations split up; Dearness allowance and consumer price index; Price rise and remedial action; Comrade Dange, Shripad Amrit. Commissions: Reports and Resolutions: Social security; Problems of working women; Report of the commission on trade union unity; Report of the commission on industrial “sickness”, lockouts, closures; Trade unions in the struggle for peace and against nuclear war; On the commission on unorganised workers. Reports of the credentials committee: Lists of general council elected members, of office bearers, of the working committees. General Secretary’s Report: Escalation of nuclear war danger; AITUC and struggle for peace; State of the economy and impact on workers’ conditions; How the working class have fought; National committee campaign; Bombay textile strike; The new worker; Working women, young workers and agricultural labour; Corporate sector and MNCs; Communal and divisive forces; AITUC’s unity proposal; International relations and solidarity; Organisation; Main tasks ahead: Appendices; NCC resolution; AITUC letter to CITU.
33rd Session of the AITUC, Vadodara: 15-20 December 1986. Report, resolutions and all other documents
(All-India Trade Union Congress, 1987) All-India Trade Union Congress
Includes a preface; Condolence resolution; Welcome address of reception committee chairman Jatin V. Modi; Messages received; Fraternal delegates. SPEECHES BY FRATERNAL DELEGATES: WFTU, V. Mozhayev; AUCCTU, Victor Mishin; West Germany’s FDGB, Johanna Topper; Czechoslovak Trade Unions, V. Kozik; Centre of the Workers of Cuba, Orlando Benitez; Jatiyo Sramik Jaote Bangladesh, Mesbahuddin Ahmed; Bangladesh Trade Union Kendra, Saifuddin Ahmed Manik; Mongolian Trade Unions Congress, B. Chulunbator; Fenasol Lebanon, Fakhri Farhcud; General Federation of Trade Unions, Iraq, Abdul Qadir Mustafa; Ethiopian Trade Union, Melaku Mirtu; Bulgarian Trade Unions, Liliana Dimitrova; Central Trade Unions of Yugoslavia, Zvonimir Hrabar; CGT France, Th. Poupon; PPDA/Kabul City Trade Unions Afghanistan, A. Wasey Karger; General Confederation of Trade Unions Romania representative Constantin Radulescu; Italian General Confederation of Labour; All Poland Trade Union Alliance, Jerzy Uzieelo; General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea, Kong Jong Pal; Regional ILO office, S. Sankar Narayanan; CITU, N. Chakbavarty; Bharatiya Khet Mazdoor Union, P. K. Kodiyan. INDUSTRY REPORTS: Port, dock and water front workers’ federation of India; All India Petroleum Workers’ Federation; Activities of the National Federation of Engineering Workers of India; Indian Railway Workers’ Federation; Social burden on railways; All India Beedi, Cigar & Tobacco Workers’ Federation; Coal industry. COMMISSION REPORTS on: Threat to national unity, integrity and communal harmony; Trade union rights; Proposed amendments to the Industrial Disputes Act and the Trade Unions Act; Impact of the economic policies of the government on the industry and working class; Unorganised labour: Achievement of the AITUC and tasks; Trade union unity. RESOLUTIONS: Consumer price index; Support of strike of public sector employees on 21 January 1987; Support of the struggle of the people of South Africa and Namibia; Support of striking A.P. government employees; Beedi workers; Abolition of contract labour; Sri Lanka; Employees of private nursing homes and hospitals; Construction industry workers; Struggling workers of national building construction corporation Ltd., and bride and roof company under public sector; Rights of employees in institutions run by minorities; Save the jute industry; All India token strike of Indian aluminium workers; Central law for agricultural workers; IV central pay commission; Purchase of Paddy by Tamil Nadu government and for public distribution system; Threatened closure of Standard Motors Madras; Afghanistan; Tea trade; New textile policy of the government and serious consequences following therefrom; Against drug price rise; Social security; Stop forthwith Iraq-Iran war; Reunionification of Korea and peace in the AITUC; Significance of Gorbachev’s visit and the Delhi declaration; Solidarity with Nicaragua; Solidarity with Palestinian people; Safety in mines; Mavoor Gwalior Rayons strike; Nationalisation of shipping; Modernisation in the ports & docks; Electricity; Industrial development of North Eastern region of India; Lebanon; Unemployment; Indian Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Ltd (I.D.P.L.); Problems of the state road transport industry and workers; Dangers of industrial pollution; Assault of Laro Jonko by employers’ goondas; Goa’s liberation. Report of the credential committee. List of office bearers and working committee members, general council members. PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS booklet: Peace mobilisation; New Pak threat; Active American lobby; South African liberation movement; Fighting forces of disintegration; Economic stagnation; 21 January as national protest day; Unorganised workers; Expansion. GENERAL SECRETARY’S REPORT booklet: Struggle for peace; Against communal and secessionist forces and terrorists; New industrial and economic policies – Attack on public sector; New technology and trade unions; Unorganised sector; United actions and struggles; Fourth pay commission; New anti-labour laws; Bhopal and the TNCs; Trade union unity; Organisation; International relations; Tasks. INFORMATION MATERIALS booklet: Working population; Selected economic indicators; Employment and unemployment; Process of liberalisation and increasing concessions to monopolies; Central public sector enterprises; Growth of monopolies; Capital flight to foreign banks; Bhopal declarations on TNCs; Growing industrial “sickness”; New technology and trade unions; Industrial accidents; Prices and price rises; Labour cost; Industrial relations; Provident fund arrears; Arjun Sen Gupta Committee Report; Central Services (recognition of Service Associations) Rules, 1986; Privatisation; Verification of membership of central TU organisations.
A question to trade unions : On ESI, PF and pension schemes: Report of the study group on social security
(All-India Trade Union Congress, 1959) All-India Trade Union Congress
Like "Report of the study group on social security 1958", to pursue the recommendations on labour policy for the second Indian five-year plan, the Ministry of Labour and Employment set up a study group of representatives. It has the following chapters: Conclusions and Recommendations; Achievements and Criticisms of the Existing Schemes; Feasibility of an Integrated Scheme; The Scheme; Conclusion, and seven appendices.
Advance of the Japanese Trade Union Movement: [The 12th convention of the General Council of Trade Unions of Japan (SOHYO)]
(All-India Trade Union Congress, 1960) All-India Trade Union Congress
Given the frequent high praise of the "high productivity" of the Japanese worker in India, the pamphlet is an introduction for Indian workers to the problems faced by the Japanese union movement. The information has been provided by the General Council of Trade Unions of Japan (or SOHYO), and contains the proceedings of SOHYO's 1959 convention, as well as a summary by trade unionists.
AITUC - Fifty Years Documents: Volume One
(All-India Trade Union Congress, 1970) All-India Trade Union Congress
The Foundation Thoughts and Forces of the AITUC: Origins of the AITUC
AITUC General Council Meeting : General Secretary's Report and Information Materials. Bombay: 2 to 4, 1989
(All-India Trade Union Congress, 1989) All-India Trade Union Congress
The conference report has: A note on some urgent problems and tasks by General Secretary Indrajit Gupta; General Secretary's Report; Developments and Work Since last General Council; Lockouts, Closures, industrial sickness; Recent Wage Agreements – Major Terms; Profile of Public Sector Enterprises 1987-88; Employment and Unemployment; Notified minimum wages; Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers; and Proposals for amendments to AITUC Constitution.
AITUC General Council Meeting : General Secretary's Report and Other Materials. Hyderabad 3-5 1985
(All-India Trade Union Congress, 1985) All-India Trade Union Congress
The report contains: an Outline Report of the General Secretary; The Central Budget and other measures; Spurt in Share prices; Uptrend in Wholesale Price Index; Consumer Price Index; Industrial "Sickness", closures, etc.; Textile Policy Statement of the Government; Bhopal Gas tragedy; AITUC – CITU Correspondence; Central Trade Unions' proposals with regard to verification of membership.
AITUC General Council Meeting : General Secretary's Report and Other Materials. Madras 17-19 July 1986
(All-India Trade Union Congress, 1986) All-India Trade Union Congress
The report contains: General Secretary's Report; National Integration Day on August 9- Resolution; Summary of Recommendations of Arjun Sen Gupta Committee Report; ”Golden Handshake” in BHEL; SAIL – Wage Negotiation Strategy; Concessions Galore to Industry and Trade; Foreign Collaborations; NCAER Review or Economy; Labour Cost in Public and Private Sector Industries; Lockouts, closures, layoff retrenchment; Growing Unemployment, Industrial ”Sickness"; All-India average Consumer Price Index Numbers; Salient Features of 4th Pay Commission Report; Recruitment Ban Order relaxed; Payment of gratuity – Calculation; Central civil services (Recognition of Service Association) Rules, 1986; Productivity in Public Enterprises Industry Groups; and Growth of Employment in Public Enterprises and private sector.
AITUC General Council Meeting : Information Documents. New Delhi 8, 9 & 10 November 1976
(All-India Trade Union Congress, 1974) All-India Trade Union Congress
The report contains: Update since the 29th session; Coal and the Indian economy; Non-coking coal; Proposals for new coal mines; Bipartite wage negotiations – Steel industry, Bhel, Cement, Electricity, Coal mines, Sugar, Bangalore-based public sector industries, Magnesite mines Salem, Port & dock, L.I.C.; Report on L.I.C. struggle for wages; Struggle, unity and gains in heavy engineering in Jamshedpur, B.H.E.L. and steel industry; Industry Railway Workers’ Federation; List of foreign delegates from AITUC; Letter exchange between All India Railwaymen’s Federation president George Fernandes and AITUC General Secretary Dange, Shripad Amrit; Consumer Price Index numbers; National federations formed.
AITUC General Council Meeting : Information Materials. New Delhi: November 11 to 13, 1982
(All-India Trade Union Congress, 1982) All-India Trade Union Congress
The report contains: General Secretary’s Report; Public sector wage negotiations resolution adopted at Hyderabad convention; The BPE guidelines; NCC and national labour conference documents; NCC opposes anti-labour recommendations; National labour conference conclusions; Some AITUC letters; Main features of the amendment bills; 20 big houses’ paid-up capital and profit before tax; 28th session of the WFTU bureau, Prague; and A brief account of major strike struggles and movements in 1982.
AITUC General Council Meeting : New Delhi: March 27-29, 1974
(All-India Trade Union Congress, 1975) All-India Trade Union Congress
The documents include: AITUC’s letter on the formation of the national Apex body; Meetings with union labour minister and prime minister; National apex body; First meeting of NAB (29 July 1975); First meeting - Agenda; 2nd meeting of NAB (13 August 1975); 3rd National meeting of national apex body; 4th NAB meeting; Position regarding the setting up of Apex body at the state level; Further information documents: Banking; Coal bipartite; Electricity; Tripartite meeting on footwear industry; National industrial committee on textiles; Textile industry meeting; Vanaspati tripartite – Press Information Bureau, Govt. of India; Kerala Scheme for Workers’ participation in management of public sector; Labour participation in the management of public sector undertakings; 4th Asian trade union seminar, Nagpur; Conclusion of the seminar on population question; Workers’ participation in management; Scheme for workers’ participation in industry at shop floor and plant level; and Unity – Trade Union movement.
AITUC General Council Meeting : Report and Information Material. Hyderabad: Dec. 30-31, 1993
(All-India Trade Union Congress, 1991) All-India Trade Union Congress
The report contains: General Secretary’s Report
AITUC General Council Meeting : Report and Information Materials. New Delhi 2, 3, 4 September 1991
(All-India Trade Union Congress, 1993) All-India Trade Union Congress
The report contains: Report on AITUC activities since Bhilal session in October 1992; Industry actions: public sector workers, central government employees, bank workers, postal staff strike; state of the AITUC; working committee meetings; organization of 35th AITUC conference; struggle against communal reaction and religious fundamentalism; struggle against privatization of IISCO; representations, protests, etc. to government; participation in seminars, workshops etc.; WFTU general council; exchange of fraternal delegations; solidarity with Cuba; greater prospects of cooperation with ILO; Trade Union unity; AITUC-HMS unity move; the Maharashtra quake tragedy; trade union record; malfunctioning of social security measures; GATT agreement; textiles; and agriculture.
AITUC Memorandum to the committee on Consumer Price Index Numbers
(All-India Trade Union Congress, 1977) All-India Trade Union Congress
The memorandum to the Consumer Price Index Numbers committee headed by Neelaakantha Rath. AITUC has been agitating since the early 1960s against CPI fraud (see also: The Index Fraud 1963) and the effects of this fraud on the dearness allowance.
AITUC Special Convention Resolutions and documents. June 1975, Indore
(All-India Trade Union Congress, 1975) All-India Trade Union Congress
Includes three different pamphlets: 1. Resolutions and documents; 2. Papers on Wage Policy and On Bonus, D. A. and Benefits; 3. Papers for Special Convention of All-India Trade Union Congress – In defence of workers’ rights and democracy against imperialism, monopoly capital and right reaction. RESOLUTIONS AND DOCUMENTS: Present situation and tasks; (Khmer Rouge) Liberation of Cambodia; Victory in Vietnam; Middle East; World Congress against fascism; Chile; Wages policy; Practical tasks of the trade unions in defence of the public sector; Pollution and people’s health; Organisation; Questionnaire about trade union organisation. 2. PAPERS: On wage policy, & On bonus, D. A. and benefits. 3. PAPERS: T. U. recognition and workers’ rights; Role of the public sector in national economy and politics, Workers’ participation in management; Pollution and people’s health in conditions of growing industrialisation; Role of multinationals, their threat to our economy and independence; Role of Indian monopoly houses and big landed estates, and the bureaucracy – super profits and prices – corruption and breakdown of healthy norms and morals; Worker-Peasant unity – organisation of agricultural labourers and poor peasantry; Strengthening national independence and national economy and parliamentary democracy; Some problems of trade union organisation.