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Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) Publications

 Collection
Identifier: 7016 PUBS

Abstract

Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) publications covering the following : wages and incomes, repression, anti-labour policies, working class struggles and conference reports.

Dates

  • 1972-1975

Creator

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Biographical / Historical

Centre of Indian Trade Unions, CITU is a National level Trade Union in India politically affiliated to the Communist Party of India (Marxist) as its trade union wing and is a spearhead of the Indian Trade Union Movement. The Centre of Indian Trade Unions is today one of biggest assembly of workers and classes of India. It has strong unchallangeable presence in the Indian state of Tripura besides a good presence in West Bengal, Kerala and Kanpur. They have an average presence in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. According to the provisional statistics from the Ministry of Labour, CITU had a membership of 3,222,532 in 2002.[1] Tapan Kumar Sen is the General Secretary and K. Hemalata is the president of CITU. K. Hemalata was the first woman President in CITU who was elected after A. K. Padmanabhan. It runs a monthly organ named WORKING CLASS. CITU is affiliated to the World Federation of Trade Unions.

Extent

0.25 cubic feet

Language of Materials

English

Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository

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