The 41{+s}{+t}National Conference of All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) that will be held in Coimbatore from December 15 to 18 will discuss issues pertaining to the anti-labourer policies of the Union Government.
The other issues to be discussed are unemployment, helping labourers to get good wages, houses for all and bringing down inflation.
Former Revenue Minister of Kerala and State president of AITUC in that State K.E. Ismail said this after inaugurating the reception office of the conference at the AITUC office in Kattoor here on Monday. Later, he addressed AITUC representatives on the arrangements to be made for the conference.
‘Undemocratic for labourers’
The trade union leader said that the Centre along with corporates and bureaucrats had made the situation undemocratic for labourers.
He said that the Government and corporates were trying to take away the right of labourers to an extent where staging a demonstration or voicing their views would be considered as a crime by tightening the labour laws against labourers.
According to him, the Centre is trying to create an unhealthy atmosphere between castes and religions than focusing on welfare of labourers and the working class. “At the conference in Coimbatore, about 4,000 senior representatives of AITUC and Communist Party of India (CPI) will discuss these issues and pass resolutions to benefit labourers,” Mr. Ismail added.
AITUC’s general secretary (Kerala) K.P. Rajendran, Tamil Nadu State president and former Member of Parliament K. Subbarayan, State general secretary T.M. Murthy and State secretary and Valparai MLA M. Arumugam were also present during the event.
