tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75246624261944230642024-02-20T08:00:29.898-08:00Central Orgainzation of Indian Trade Union(COITU)The Central Organisation of Indian Trade Unions(COITU), is a Central Trade Union Organisation in India and the labour wing of the Communist Workers Platform(CWP)Central Organization of Indian Trade Union(COITU)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07157635209230104574noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7524662426194423064.post-52099632719960800762012-06-02T23:06:00.001-07:002012-06-02T23:06:55.371-07:00108 ambulance workers union (108AWU) protest in madurai<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Working hours were severe and it was quite common to work 10 to 16 hours a day
in unsafe conditions. Death and injury were common at many work places and
inspired the writing of books such as Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"
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As early as the 1860's, working people agitated to shorten the work day without
a cut in pay, but it wasn't fruitful until the late 1880's that organized
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This proclamation was without the consent of employers, yet demanded by many of
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At its national convention in </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Chicago</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"> held in 1884, the Federation of Organized
Trades and Labour Unions (FOTLU) which later became the American Federation of
Labour, proclaimed that "eight hours shall constitute a legal day's labour
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The Federation in 1884 passed a resolution at their meeting that all legal ways
for their demand to reduce the working hours from 16 hours to eight hours had
failed and, therefore, decided to go on strike.</span><br />
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The movement gained momentum and on </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">May 1, 1886</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">, and a strike call was given. The centre of
this movement was </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Chicago</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">. To foil the strike, additional Police were
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For two days the strike remained peaceful. On May 3, near the McCormick
Harvesting Machine Co. factory, Police resorted to unprovoked firing upon
unarmed and peaceful demonstrators during which four labourers died and many
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The next day on May 4 the organisers announced a big rally against the criminal
action of the Police at the local market square. The gathering was peaceful.
When the last leader was delivering his speech, the Police started firing on
labourers and many of them died and hundreds were injured.</span><br />
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The Police made an excuse that someone from the gathering hurled a grenade,
which resulted in the death of one Policeman. A fake case was registered
against the Labour Leaders and eight of them were sentenced to death.</span><br />
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Albert Parson, August Spize, Adolf Fischer and George Angel were hanged on </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">November
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Louise Ling committed suicide in jail. The remaining three were pardoned in
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In 1889 it was decided to declare May 1 as Labour Day. On </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">the
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the first May Day was observed in the memory of the innocent martyrs of the
Labour Movement. In the course of time, the day became the most important day
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Many of the nurses I met talked about the pathetic working conditions that they are subject to. In many hospitals, they end up doing the work that is meant to be done by the housekeeping staff. They pointed me to an ad for nurses put up by one of these hospitals on Naukri, listing food preparation and cleaning as part of their duties.</div>
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The case of night duties is even worse. “We are stipulated to work eight hours daily. But usually that stretches to ten hours and sometimes to double shifts. We are not paid extra for that. For night duty, we get a paltry 15 rupees per night,” says John. Most of the hospitals have put up cameras to monitor whether the nurses are sleeping while on duty. “Even if we close our eyes for a minute, we have to give explanation the very next day,” he added.</div>
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Removal of the bond system is another of the nurses’ demands. By this system, if they have to resign from the hospital within 2 years and go for a better option, they have to pay Rs.1 – 2 lakhs to the management. Their certificates are with the management. So they can choose to not return it and scuttle the plans to resign.</div>
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The nurses’ strike got its first spark in October last year at the Mumbai Asian Heart Institute when Beena Baby, a nurse committed suicide as she was unable to pay the amount for breaking the bond. From there, it spread to Kerala, where it snowballed into a major strike with nurses from almost all major private hospitals staying away from work. This resulted in the managements agreeing to revise the salaries.</div>
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The strikes in Kerala saw the hospital managements unleashing dirty tactics on the striking nurses. When the strike started in the Amrita hospital in Ernakulam, the management there spread the rumour that Christian groups are behind this. The strike also saw the unveiling of the real ‘kind’ face of the MATA with many of the association leaders getting beaten up ‘mysteriously’ inside her abode and getting hospitalized. Maybe, this was part of ‘Her’ magic trick to bring the nurses back to the hospitals.</div>
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When the strike reached Angamaly Little Flower hospital, the nurses were branded as having anti-christian leanings. The church joined the management in support by reading out statements against the nurses during the Sunday mass and by even taking out a protest march. Thankfully, most of the people didn’t fall for this religious propaganda and even jeered the church authorities who took out the march. In the end, all of these hospitals fell in line and agreed to the nurses demands.</div>
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Jinu Varghese, National Secretary of All India Private Nurses Association said, “Till few years back, the nurses used to join the hospitals in India just to get the experience certificate to go abroad, where we are highly paid. But after the recession, the jobs there have shrunk and so most of us are working here for the long term. That is when we started questioning the ridiculously low wages and other unfair practices like the bond system and confiscation of certificates that are followed by hospital managements all over India”</div>
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“Ideally, it should be 8 hours work, 8 hours of sleep and 8 hours for ourselves. But after the duty which exceeds 10 hours, we hardly get any time for anything else.”</div>
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They also talked about the procedure called ‘Code blue’ used in hospitals. This is used to indicate a patient requiring urgent attention. In case of an emergency, the person who is with the patient raises this alarm and within a minute a specified team of doctors and nurses rush to the spot. This is mostly used in case of cardiac arrest. But even if it was not a case of cardiac arrest (patients do get unconscious sometimes), once code blue is raised, the particular patient is billed Rs.10,000. The reason the hospitals cite for this is usage of ‘manpower’. But nurses who are part of this ‘manpower’ are not paid anything. </div>
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Most of the private hospitals have very high nursing procedure charges are part of all hospital bills. Though this particular item in the bill is for the services rendered by the nurse, little of that goes to their salary slip. The main aim of the private hospitals is to increase the number of patients and decrease the number of staff.</div>
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The nurses’ strike started in three private hospitals in Chennai last week. Apollo, Fortis Malar and Madras Medical Mission Hospital, reeled under the impact of the strike as the nurses stayed away from work en masse. To tide over the crisis, Fortis Malar had flown in 70 nurses from their Delhi branch this Sunday whereas Apollo depended on the student nurses from their medical college. Even then, these hospitals could not handle the situation and refused to take in new cases, unless it was an emergency.</div>
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The strike at Madras Medical Mission hospital ended on Monday itself with the management agreeing to double the current salary of Rs.6000 and also to do away with the bond system. The week saw many failed rounds of mediations with the labour commissioner acting as the go-between. By the end of the week, both Fortis and Malar agreed to increase the salary to Rs.12,000.</div>
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“There is no doubt that the hospital managements are exploiting the nurses and they have every right to protest. But before going ahead with the strike they should’ve approached the labour department and tried to sort it out. They should’ve kept in mind that nursing is an essential service,” said C.Subburajan, Additional labour commissioner.</div>
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Lekha(name changed) says that they had given prior notice to the management and went ahead with the strike as there was no response to the notice. “We are not paid enough or given enough respect for the kind of work that we do. We can’t even pay off our education loans with the salary that we get here. We had no other way but to go on strike.”</div>
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“Last year, Fortis Malar had a profit of over 100 crores(I went through the annual report and realized that it is actually 136 crores). Even if they agree to pay us the salary that we are demanding, only 3 crores will be reduced from the overall profit,” she added. </div>
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Most of the hospital managements refused to talk to me on this issue. Apollo people redirected me to their HR department, where the HR head seemed to be in a perpetual meeting mode. The phone number that they gave me never answered the call.</div>
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One of the officials from a private hospital here agreed to talk after I made a second visit. According to him, his hospital is providing accommodation and transport (which they've valued at about 7000) to the nurses. So effectively they are already drawing a salary of more than Rs. 10,000. He evaded my question on how one can survive with less than Rs.5000 in a city like Chennai, even considering the accommodation and transport part. He also pointed to the huge number of private nursing colleges churning out nurses who are not up to the standard. This prompted a question on their selection process which he said is stringent. But he did agree to the fact that the nurses were paid very less all over the country owing to a lack of wage standards.</div>
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you have achieved over the adamant and autocratic hospital managements</div>
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braving all the odds and ruthless victimization. The victory achieved</div>
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by your struggle is noteworthy and pivotal since it has broken the</div>
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saga of continuous defeats faced one after another by various</div>
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struggles of the working-class in the recent period. We ardently hope</div>
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that your trend setting victory will help break the thaw and pave the</div>
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way for the blossoming of the very many working-class movements.</div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Central Organisation of Indian </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Trade Unions(C.O.I.T.U.)</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><br /></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px;">All defeats of working class are the morning mists<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px;">It will learn it’s lessens and grow ever stronger<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</div>Central Organization of Indian Trade Union(COITU)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07157635209230104574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7524662426194423064.post-90711126280900766032012-02-24T08:58:00.002-08:002012-02-24T08:58:35.492-08:00Vandalize all the developments prevent to form a true working class union which is workers inseparable right<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px;">The recent developments happened against the working class in Maruti Industries in Gurgaon and in Regency Industry in Enam brings an important notice that working class of India is finding its giant feet in the form of uncompromised working class struggles. The brutal atrocities against the workers of Maruti Industries and Regency industry of Enam which was exercised by the respective State and Central governments make us to feel the budding growth of workers unions in these industries. Even though quantitatively it looks like an unnoticed development, it brings its historical importance in working class movement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px;">Once the Soviet Union and China, the countries of working class was broken successfully, the International working class movement suffered a lot. In addition that with the slogan of ‘saving the industrial development’ the so-called powerful workers union slowly has been taken the path of mortality through destroying the union activities against the capitalist class. In such a phased manner slowly working class not only lost its target of working class revolution but also the spirit of the working class as whole.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px;">The recent working class movements happened in Gurgaon and Enam as well as the debridement of working class unions are not happened spontaneously. Both of these developments happened in the process of society is progressing forward to reach the classless society through waging uncompromised class struggle by the working class against its oppressors in the form of anti capitalist socialist revolution and their governments. This brings the ray of hope in the working class movement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px;">To fasten this process COITU (Central Organization of Indian Trade Unions) is organizing a convention to form uncompromised workers union throughout India. Join your hands with us to fulfil the unaccomplished task of moving the society forward to create a classless society.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px;">Working class never defeated in history<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px;">All defeats of working class are the morning mists<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px;">It will learn it’s lessens and grow ever stronger<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px;">A true communist party will fasten this process to achieve the goal of class less society<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>Central Organization of Indian Trade Union(COITU)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07157635209230104574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7524662426194423064.post-3092244008198554922011-12-22T06:53:00.000-08:002011-12-22T06:53:07.071-08:00Textile production in Tirupur cluster hit by strike<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Textile production in Tirupur knitwear cluster was paralysed on Wednesday( 21.12.2011) following the one-day strike observed by leading trade unions condemning the delay in revising workers' wages though the previous wage accord expired a year ago.</div>
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Agitated over the textile manufacturers' apathy to the welfare of employees, about 1.5 lakh workers in tailoring, cutting, checking, folding and packing departments in 4,500 units did not attend any shift today.</div>
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Trade unions like CITU, INTUC, LPF, MLF and AITUC, which called for the agitation, demanded hike in basic salaries and introduction of perks like house rent allowance and leave travel assistance, among others, in the new wage agreement.</div>
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“We are also asking the unit owners to implement the wage agreement with retrospective effect from January 1 this year as the previous wage pact lost its validity in December, 2010,” the union leaders said.</div>
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“Demands like HRA and a few other perks figure in the agenda every year but they are never met. Many unionists are soft in dealing with entrepreneurs contrary to the image they project,” they said.</div>
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</div>Central Organization of Indian Trade Union(COITU)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07157635209230104574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7524662426194423064.post-36418987177091347072011-11-26T01:42:00.000-08:002011-11-26T01:42:03.496-08:00The five-legged elephant<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><div class="articleLead"> <b>Looking back at Shankar Guha Niyogi, 20 years after his assassination.</b><br />
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</div><div> </div><div class="body" style="text-align: justify;">On September 28, 1991, Shankar Guha Niyogi put aside his copy of <i>Lenin on Trade Unions and Revolutions</i>, and fell asleep under a mosquito net in his room on the ground floor of an apartment in the Bhilai industrial township. In the early hours of the morning, a young man rode up to the house, looked in through the bedroom's well-lit window and shot him dead.</div><a href="" name="more"></a><br />
<div class="body" style="text-align: justify;">At the time, Niyogi stood at the helm of a movement to unionise the thousands of contract workers employed in factories across what would become the State of Chhattisgarh. Twenty years on, as India appraises the legacy of two decades of economic reforms, Niyogi's life and violent end offer a snapshot of the turbulence that presaged the dawn of the India's ‘New Economy'.</div><div class="body" style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="body" style="text-align: justify;">Dhiresh Guha Niyogi was born in 1943 in Jalpaigudi, Bengal, and studied in Jalpaigudi and Calcutta. In the early 1960s he came to Bhilai to work at the Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP), and established himself as a labour organiser. BSP was emblematic of the possibilities of India's public sector: the integrated steel plant and township spanned over 22,000 acres, operated captive iron ore mines in Dalli Rajara, limestone quarries in Dani Tola and spawned a network of privately-owned ancillary factories that employed thousands of workers.</div><div class="body" style="text-align: justify;">In 1967, Niyogi and his colleagues organised one of the BSP's first strikes for better working conditions. A year later he was thrown out of the BSP, and spent the next several years travelling through Chhattisgarh.</div><div class="body" style="text-align: justify;">In 1970s, a young man who called himself Shankar arrived at the BSP's limestone quarries in Dani Tola. His past was unknown, but he seemed interested in the working conditions at the mine. In time he married an Adivasi called Asha, whose parents worked in the mines.</div><div class="body" style="text-align: justify;">“Shankar worked in the mines like everyone else,” said Asha in a recent interview, “No one knew much about him, except that he was from Bengal. One day he was in Dalli on some work when some LIB people [local intelligence branch] came to Dani Tola. Indira Gandhi had passed the MISA [Maintenance of Internal Security Act, passed by Parliament in 1973] and the LIB people asked about him.”</div><div class="body" style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="body" style="text-align: justify;">It was from the LIB that Asha learnt her husband was not ‘Shankar', but unionist Dhiresh Guha Niyogi, who had been thrown out of the BSP for “partybaazi” at a time when State governments were using the MISA to detain those perceived to be working against the establishment. “They arrested him in Dalli.” she said, “We had been married one year.”</div><div class="body" style="text-align: justify;">“Once released, he set up a <i>bakri</i> [goat] business to show the police he was just running a normal business now,” said Asha with a laugh. “We went from village to village on foot and bought goats which we sold in the markets. But at each village he held meetings where he gave speeches about <i>jagruti</i> [awareness].”</div><div class="body" style="text-align: justify;">In 1975, Indira Gandhi imposed the Emergency and Niyogi was rearrested. He was released in 1977, a time when the contract workers of Dalli Rajara were contemplating a mass action.</div><div class="body" style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="body" style="text-align: justify;">“There were about 12,000 contract workers in Dalli,” said Janaklal Thakur, a labour leader who began work in Dalli in 1972. “We were paid about Rs.2 per day for 14- to 16-hour shifts. None of the existing trade unions were willing to represent us, so a group of us approached Niyogiji.”</div><div class="body" style="text-align: justify;">The contract workers at Dalli had approached the management with a specific demand of raising the yearly bonus; once he arrived, Niyogi made it clear that he envisioned a politics that went beyond wage increments and bonuses.</div><div class="body" style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="body" style="text-align: justify;">“Will a ten-per-cent increase in our bonus bring revolutionary change to this country?” asked Niyogi in a speech, years later. In 1977, Niyogi, Mr. Thakur and the contract workers of Dalli established the Chhattisgarh Mines Shramik Sangh (CMSS) workers union.</div><div class="body" style="text-align: justify;">“Niyogiji often said ‘Ours is not an eight-hour union, ours is a 24-hour union'. He was concerned with all aspects of a worker's life: history, education, gender, everything. CMSS set up 17 departments to look into worker welfare,” said Sudha Bhardwaj, a lawyer and trade unionist who came to Dalli in 1986 and taught in a union-run school. “The red and green union flag symbolises the unity of farmer and worker struggles,” she said.</div><div class="body" style="text-align: justify;">Shahid hospital was one such initiative that began as a dispensary in an unused garage in 1982. Today, it is a self-financed 100-bed hospital dedicated to providing quality low-cost health care to workers and villagers around Dalli.</div><div class="body" style="text-align: justify;">“Shahid hospital was set up in memory of Kusum bai, an Adivasi woman, who died from a ruptured fallopian tube in 1979 because she had no access to health care. Contract workers could not go to BSP's hospitals,” said Dr. Saibal Jana, who came to Dalli from Calcutta in 1981 and is now the head of Shahid hospital, “By 1983, the hospital had 10 beds and four doctors but no money. So each worker donated a month's mine allowance [Rs.30] to the hospital. We collected about Rs.3 lakh and bought a truck which we leased for about Rs.5,000 per month to cover running costs of the hospital.”</div><div class="body" style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="body" style="text-align: justify;">By 1990, CMSS had about 10,000 members, and had engineered a series of mass actions and negotiations that ensured that they were amongst the best paid contract workers in the country. “We were making six to seven thousand rupees a month. We had gratuity, cycle allowances, house rent allowances like the permanent workers,” Mr. Thakur said, “The old union leaders told us we would get bonuses only when elephants had five legs. Once when we won a battle with the management, we took out a parade with a statue of such an animal.”</div><div class="body" style="text-align: justify;">In 1990, Niyogi and the CMSS sought to expand their presence amongst the contract workers in Bhilai's ancillary industries, which were run by a powerful group of industrialists including Moolchand Shah of the Simplex Group, Chandra Kant Shah of Oswal Steel Pvt. Ltd., K.P. Kedia, and B.R. Jain of the famous <i>hawala</i> dairies scandal which entailed illegal payments to some of India's most powerful politicians.</div><div class="body" style="text-align: justify;">It was then, Niyogi's supporters believe, that a group of businessmen sought to eliminate him. “These businessmen did not allow an independent union … after all, improving work environment and increasing wages would hurt their bottom lines and absurd profit margins,” said journalist and author Sanjay Kapoor, who followed the case.</div><div class="body" style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="body" style="text-align: justify;">In 1997, a Madhya Pradesh Sessions Court convicted Moolchand Shah, Chandrakant Shah and three others of conspiring to kill Niyogi and sentenced Paltan Mallah, the hired assassin, to death. However, in 2005 the Supreme Court held that there was insufficient evidence to convict the industrialists and commuted Mallah's sentence to life imprisonment.</div><div class="body" style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="body" style="text-align: justify;">Niyogi is survived by his wife Asha, his three children Kranti, Jeet and Mukti and a legacy of building flexible, broad-based organisations that think beyond the immediacy of the present and the contingent.</div></div></div>Central Organization of Indian Trade Union(COITU)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07157635209230104574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7524662426194423064.post-73312229260553068372011-10-14T22:33:00.000-07:002011-10-14T22:34:05.047-07:00The voice and action of the professional workers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #3d85c6; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><br />
<div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2950945191146077422" style="width: 580px;"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="line-height: 1.4; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>The voice of the professional workers</strong></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">For the past few decades the social problems of the professional workers is surmounting like a Himalayan mountain the employees are squeezed to deploy the work from their mind, blood and sweat still they have not gained their fruits of their works. It seems there should be some problem in the social architecture of our society, of course yes!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Here is the blog organize by our party as an seed to plant an organized professional workers with whom we can reason out, discuss and fight against the bad things happens to all of us.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">When we say about bad thing we suppose to say what they are?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">There are 750000 engineering graduates and numerous diploma holders where passed out every year from our Indian educational industries. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Somebody can say<o:p></o:p></span></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">1. There could not be sufficient job in the society for all of them <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> 2. There won’t be a relevant job for all of them <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">3. The good job is a credit for who have effort and talents<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">4. This is only social architecture where we need to struggle and survive <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Government says<o:p></o:p></span></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">1.</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Self Employment <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">2.</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Birth control<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">3.</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Some time even subsidy for the unemployed <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">By seeing all the above points everybody can arrive to a point Yes there is some problem in the society need to be sort out.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We as professional workers having such kind of solution, initiated a forum to reveal answers against the problems which can be very genuine<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Here the same society which has more education industries loots exorbitant money from our parents for the sake of our future, but the same society which after the degree have limited job to provide for the numbered peoples whom they can select in the process of illogical competitions, nobody can say this is right.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Every person has technical ideas as a part of the study. If somebody says this job can be performed by this person only means it is unscientific sixth sense.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">If somebody says this is the only social architecture I would request them to review the history because the history says the replacement for this social design<o:p></o:p></span></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The government which always works for the goodwill of the few peoples will not find the permanent solution for these problems because the real solution will question the existence of the government itself, so it always say and suggest the temporary unsuccessful that can make the people confused to see the root cause of these problems.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">First thing to carry out<o:p></o:p></span></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The government always support and work for the welfare of the industrialist in the name of democracy never mind the employee struggle to have penny more money as a salary for their useful needs. The social design is not controlled by the government instead it was controlled by the few numbered capitalist who have the entire hold in the economy of this social design so the state structure government always plays the second fiddle to these numbered capitalist.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN-US">The industrialist always tries to make and keep the problems in many ways such as<o:p></o:p></span></span></div></div><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><div style="line-height: 1.4; text-align: justify;">1. Breaking the direct hold between the industrialist and the labors in the name of contract every single thing done by the capitalist class have various meanings for example this contract workers means to </div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 1.4;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;">a) earn surplus profit</span></div></span> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 1.4;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;">b) Break the direct relation to fight against their own industrialist</span></div></span> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 1.4;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;">c) Percolate the capitalist class idea to the working class by making planting the enemy within the workers.</span></div></span> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 1.4;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;">2. since the demand for the employee is less every industrialist enjoying the cheap labor for their surplus profit, negating the amenities of the workers, unhindered and timeless work extraction. </span></div></span> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 1.4;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;">3. Intentionally breaking every small unity emerges with workers for the good cause and nullifying the scope of unity by offering cheap luxury.</span></div></span> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><br />
</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.4;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></span> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Like this point there are many other points which will reveal the class interest of the greedy capitalist</span></div></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; text-align: justify;">What we need to do?</div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; line-height: 22px;">Like the way the organized capitalist class join hands and minds for the greedy misappropriate growth, we also join our hand and minds for the well being of the entire human race</span></div></span> <div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.4; text-align: justify;">Unity is the first slogan which we need to sound like a thunder in rains!!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.4; text-align: justify;">Reasoning all the odd things happen to both workers and civilians with the joined hands so that we can come to know the inters and the intention of the ruling class</div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; line-height: 22px;">If there can’t be any solution for the problems in prevailing society plant the stone to built the new.</span></div></span> <div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.4;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></span> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><strong>Workers of all country unite!!!</strong></span></div></div></span><div style="line-height: 1.4;"></div></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #3d85c6; color: #666666; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></span></div>Central Organization of Indian Trade Union(COITU)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07157635209230104574noreply@blogger.com0