CITU All India Conference begins on March 17

 Press Release

Chandigarh / March 10

“The 13th All India Conference of Centre of Indian trade unions (CITU) will be a new milestone in history of the struggles are being fought in the defence of the interests of the working class of India, which is going to be held from 17th to 21st March,2010 at Comrade Jyoti Basu Nagar (Sohi Banquet,Zirakpur) Chandigarh.”  These ideas expressed by Dr. Joginder Singh Puar Chairman , Comrade Charn Singh Virdi Vice Chairman , Comrade Vijay Mishra President , Comrade Raghunath Singh general Secretary of the reception committee for this conference jointly during a press conference held at press club Chandigarh. They said that 2500 delegates elected from the 51 lacs membership of CITU and 100 foreign delegates from 25 other countries will participate the conference and will review about the achievements and deficiencies of the struggle have  been fought by the trade union movement for the defence of the interests of the working class in the past and adopt the strategy for the struggles would be fought by CITU within coming 3 years. They added that membership of CITU has increased from 40 lacs to 51 lacs during last three years due to its scientific approach and struggling attitude in the favour of working class. They said that all the trade unions in India came together in the field of struggle due to the initiative of CITU, which provided strength to the working class unity and increased pressure to resist the intensity of the on sloughts on the interests of the working class by the imperialism and ruling classes. They said that CITU took initiative in the past to increase the participation of women in the working class movement.

The leaders said that CITU also took initiative in organizing the workers of unorganized sector and also in increasing unity with the fraternal organization like AIKS and AIAWU through joint struggle though which workers-peasant unity has been increased. The leaders said that where conference will elect the office bearers, working committee and general council, it take concrete decisions through discussing different issues in the six commissions formed by the conference.  They said that the issues discussed in these commissions will be revolutionary ideology of the working class and role of trade union , Unity of working class and our approach , News media and working class , About security , health and environment , challenges in organizing unorganizedbworkers and organizing the working women and our objective etc.

They said that this conference will be participated by the Chief Minister of West Bengal along withbmany other ministers and MLA’s of Kerala and Tripura.

The leaders told that a maha mazdoor Rally will be held at Comrade Harkishan Singh Surjit maidan (Industrial area phase-II) Chandigarh on the last day of conference 21st March, which will be addressed by Budhadeb Bhattacharya the Chief minsiter of west Bengal, Dr. M K Pandhe the all  India President of CITU, Mohammed Amin all India General Secretary of CITU, Dr. Hema Lata the  general secretary of AIFAWH and Comrade Raghunath Singh all India Vice president of CITU along with others. The rally will be presided over by Comrade Vijay Misra the president of Punjab CITU. They said that rally will be participated by the workers and other toaling people of Punjab along with their families. They said that the demands that will be highlated in the rally are as ban strictly on the unlawful outsourcing system in government, semi government and private units, regularize the all workers working on contract basis, stop privatization of the institutions providing basic facilities like health, education ,electricity, water, transport etc and public sector, ensure implementations of labour laws strictly , the officers and administrators who are violating labour laws must be punished , roll back false case registered against the trade union leaders and workers, lift ban on organizing meetings, rallies on the mill gates, stop doing lay off, retrenchments and lock up, make an effective law through discussion with the trade unions to ensure the security of the unorganized workers, make a law to ensure security of migrant labour , ensure guarantee of work for whole year to NREGA workers. Pay minimum wages to NREGA workers with Rs.200/-, expand this scheme upto the urban area. The leaders said that the preparations of conference and rally are going to be complete. They said that this conference will gain an inmportant place in the history of Chandigarh and

Punjab.