THE Joint National Convention of Central
Trade Unions and Industrial Federations held in Mavalankar Hall in Delhi
on March 30, 2016 called upon the working class of the country to observe
a country wide general strike on September 2, 2016 against the anti-people,
anti-national and anti-worker policies of the NDA government.
Hundreds of workers from all over the country
employed in the organised and unorganised sectors, public and private sectors –
from public sector undertakings, banks, insurance, defence, state and central
government departments, railways, telecom, port and dock, road transport,
electricity, construction, different schemes of the government of India, home
based workers, domestic workers and from many other sectors participated in the
Convention.
The Convention strongly criticised the NDA
government for its total apathy towards the genuine demands that were being
continuously raised by the united trade union movement through their 12 point
charter of demands. The government’s practice of bypassing the parliament and
implement pro-management measures through executive orders was seriously
condemned by the Convention. It strongly criticised the government for totally
ignoring the consensus recommendations of the Indian Labour Conference related
to minimum wages, contract workers and scheme workers.
The Convention unanimously adopted
resolutions condemning the Haryana government which has introduced Rajasthan
type amendments to the labour laws, against the brutal lathi charge on the
Honda workers in Rajasthan, against the labour law violations by the MNCs and
in solidarity with the Pricol workers in Tamil Nadu and Maruti workers in
Haryana.
The Convention called upon the working class
to observe country wide general strike on September 2, 2016 and start massive
joint preparations at once to ensure that the participation of workers in the
strike surpass even that in the general strike last year on the same day. It
called upon the working class to take the unity attained at the national level
to the grass root and work place level and also extend the unity to all other
toiling sections of the society like the peasants, agricultural workers etc.
The Convention decided to take up the
following programmes in preparation for the strike:
Joint conventions at the state, district and
industry level during June–July 2016. The campaign to involve peasants,
agricultural workers and all sections of toiling people in general
Day long Satyagraha at the state capitals and
industrial centres on August 9, on the Quit India Day
In addition innovative joint actions as part
of the campaign as decided at the state level
The Convention was presided by Amit Yadav
(INTUC), Amarjeet Kaur (AITUC) Raja Sreedhar (HMS), A K Padmanabhan(CITU),
Satyavan Singh (AIUTUC), Sanjana (SEWA), Santosh Ray (AICCTU), Shatrujeet
Singh (UTUC) and Mohan Kumar (LPF). G Sanjeeva Reddy from INTUC, Gurudas
Dasgupta from AITUC, Harbhajan Singh Siddu from HMS, Tapan Sen from CITU,
Sankar Saha from AIUTUC, Lata Yadav from SEWA, Santosh Rai from AICCTU, Abani
Roy from UTUC and Subbaraman from LPF addressed the Convention. BMS which was
party to the decision for the National Convention on March 30, 2016, did not
participate.
NATIONAL CONVENTION OF WORKERS
NEW DELHI, MARCH 30, 2016
DECLARATION
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