23-25 September 2016, Jan Vikas Kendra, Jamshedpur
Massive Rally on 25 September 2016
NTUI will hold its Fourth General Council at Jamshedpur on 23-25 September: Jamshedpur, 12 September 2016:About 300 delegates representing about 100 affiliates from the states of Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal will participate at the Fourth General Council of the New Trade Union Initiative to be held in Jamshedpur between 23 and 25 September 2016.
At the General Council delegates will reflect on the political challenges before the working class in the present context of growing right wing attack both within the country and globally. The Council will also evaluate the achievements and failures of NTUI in the period since the Third General Assembly and debate and define the agenda for one and a half year period to the next General Assembly.
The Council shall also evaluate the impact of the countrywide General Strike on 2 September in which millions of workers across towns and villages struck work to record their strong opposition to BJP government’s continued efforts to undermine workers’ rights and demobilise trade unions. The success of the strike reflected the sharp opposition of the working class against the efforts of the government to systematically violate core workers’ rights through the efforts to amend the Factories Act and, without direct reference to the legislature, introduce fixed term contracts and interfere with provident fund and ESI provisions. The strike also comes at the end of months in which the BJP government has presided over attacks on students, on oppressed castes especially dalits and on women and minorities along with a sustained attack on the livelihood rights of all workers including agriculture and forest workers. With the effort to amend legislation in the central sphere failing, the BJP government at the centre has now resorted to pushing their agenda through in the state sphere where BJP governments exist. The proposal to amend the Chotanagpur Tenancy (CNT) Act and Santhal Pargana Tenancy (SPT) Act by the government of Jharkhand is a direct attack on land and livelihood rights of adivasis in the state.
The NTUI is committed to stand up against every violation of the right to freedom of association, to build a national struggle for a living wage and the right to livelihood, for equality between men and women workers, and to strengthen the struggle for contract, casual, temporary and honorarium workers while reaffirming the NTUI commitment to the unity of trade unions and the working class. Above all, in recognition of the fact that class struggle is and can only be political, NTUI committed itself to build a continuous offensive against imperialist globalisation by “initiating, joining and consolidating a national alliance of trade unions and peoples’ organizations for formulating a programmatic alternative to neo-liberalism and to strengthen the unity of working class with progressive and democratic forces to breach the imperialist order”.
Gautam Mody General Secretary
D C Gohain State Secretary, Jharkhand
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