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CPSA calls for trade union unity

Staff Reporter

KOCHI: The three-day diamond jubilee celebrations of the Cochin Port Staff Association (CPSA) ended here on Tuesday with a call for trade union unity.

The Minister for Electricity, Aryadan Mohammed, who was the guest of honour at the celebrations, pointed out that the fruits of development were not percolating down to the workers as planners like Jawaharlal Nehru visualised.

He said that circumstances had changed drastically and called on the workers not to oppose development. He pointed to the flow of foreign direct investment to China and also to the changes in West Bengal.

The Minister for Industries, V. K. Ibrahim Kunju, said that trade unions should work together sinking their differences.

Vayalar Ravi, MP and president of the CPSA, said that the Association had foreseen the need for trade union unity and had worked for it. The Port Trust chairman, Jacob Thomas and P. M. Mohammed Haneef, working president of CPSA, were among those present at the meeting that was the culmination of a colourful rally that took off from the North End.

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