JAIPUR: Centre for Indian Trade Unions (CITU) general secretary Chitvrat Majumdar has warned the United Progressive Alliance Government against the continued attack on trade union rights and attempts to change the labour laws. The Left trade unions would seek the cooperation of other trade unions to oppose the anti-people, anti-labour policies of the UPA Government, he said.

Mr.Majumdar, who was here to address the All India Kisan Sabha workshop, told newspersons on Wednesday that a convention was being called in Delhi on July 25 by the Sponsoring Committee of the Trade Unions in which various groups would sit together to chalk out an action programme for future.

After Delhi and Mumbai, the Government's move was to privatise the airports at Chennai and Kolkata and the trade unions would oppose it, Mr.Majumdar said. The unions would get the new privately owned airport at Hyderabad closed, he said. The airport employees would not cooperate in its functioning, he asserted.

The trade unions are planning to observe July 7 as a protest day at national level against the current decision of the UPA Government to partly disinvest NALCO and the Neyveli Lignite Corporation. The workers have started an indefinite strike at NLC from Tuesday night, he informed.

Mr.Majumdar termed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's promise to offer shares of the NLC to its workers as well as a "typical capitalistic ploy". "It is part of the privatisation to offer shares to the workers," he observed.

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