Stating that the Centre and State governments were following anti-labour policies, Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) leaders called upon the working class to first understand the principles of globalisation and launch a unified class struggle in co-ordination with other labour fronts to uphold the rights of labour.
At CITU's 40th founding day celebrations in Chennai on Monday, Rajya Sabha MP and CITU All India Vice President T.K. Rangarajan said unionists must first realise that the rights of the labour to form a union, register and negotiate were being denied by the governments pursing policies of globalisation, privatisation and liberalisation.
While manufacturing capacity had grown nearly five fold in the past ten years, the salaries had not seen much of a rise, which made it evident that exploitation had increased manifold. By reducing the cost of labour, by employing contract and casual labour, companies have multiplied profit margins, he said. Distressed that even the courts, taking cue from pro-rich governments, have started issuing anti-labour verdicts, Mr. Rangarajan said the unionists have to forget past glory and find innovative ways to sustain trade unionism in the era of globalisation when MNCs setting up shops here deny even basic rights to the workers.
CITU State general secretary A. Soundararajan said the time had come to launch a campaign against the government and lay siege to its agencies ignoring the rights of the working class. Noting that workers on strike were developing a tendency to take to violent methods out of sheer frustration, Mr. Soundararajan asked the local union leaders to find ingenious methods to keep the momentum.
CITU All India president A.K. Padmanabhan asked the members to unite and fight with a renewed vigour.
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