Assembly of the Working People 2008
NTUI believes that trade unions share a common interest and understanding with other social movements that arise in struggle for democracy, and against oppression, deprivation and exploitation. An objective basis for building a strategic alliance between trade unions and other social movements exists. Social movements have organisational capacities and structures that complement and enhance the bargaining strength of workers and the ability to transform society in the direction that benefits all working people.
NTUI includes in its fraternity all those who share its concern of labour, support and complement the trade union movement and subscribe to its core principles of democracy and the unity of the working class.
It is with the foregoing understanding that we organised the first Assembly of the Working People in Delhi on 15-17 December 2008. This was a space for directly expressing the concrete demands and views of grass root unions and organisations of the working people and opening up a process of contestation with the Government on policy making. The participation of all those who associate themselves with the working class movement, expanded the scope of discussion and debate on issues of working class perspective, that are in many ways core to the values that NTUI stands for.