Alliances
Historically, the union movement in India grew out of the national movement and so remained a creation of the political movement. This has given unions a political perspective and support but has also made the trade union movement victim to union splits due to political differentiation. The underlying assumption that all political differentiation necessarily requires union differentiation is neither theoretically nor historically valid. The union movement needs the learning space to acquire the capability to assess and decide which differences of values, visions, social goals and strategies may require trade union differentiation, and if so, when. Neither did the union movement aggressively claim this space nor did political parties unilaterally concede it.
The general mood of the workers is for unity. The strength of any new organising effort has to build on this felt need of workers and lead to a larger organisational entity than that existed before. NTUI is committed to building solidarity among working people and their unions and organisations based on the commonality of interest.