Bhubaneswar, Jan 23: The Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) has decided to hold its five-day long 15th All India Conference at Puri, said organisation’s national secretary K Hemalata here.
“Over 2,500 delegates representing workers from all sectors, organised and unorganised, and who have led militant struggles of the workers from all over the country are expected to participate in this conference and exchange their experience,” Hemalata told reporters here.
Stating that they were strongly opposed to the proposed amendments to the Labour laws, Hemalata said this would deny workers of their rights to organisation and collective bargaining, depriving them of their rights to strike.
“They (the NDA govt) will give employers freedom to hire and fire workers as per their will. The workers will be pushed to conditions of slavery,” Hemalata said.
The CITU leader also criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Make in India initiative and alleged the BJP-led government continued to implement anti-people policies and communal forces were trying to divide the people and polarise society, weakening the united struggle.
The 15th conference of the CITU would discuss all national and international issues confronting the toiling people and take appropriate decision to unite all sections of people and intensify the struggle against the neo-liberal policies, Hemalata said.
The conference would also decide its activities to defeat the mechanism of the disruptive forces of all hue and colour and strengthen the united struggle to force reversal of anti-people policies, she added.
