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CITU national meet in Bangalore from today

Staff Correspondent

Conference to focus on trade union movement, SEZs and the contract labour policy

MYSORE: The 12th All-India Conference of the Centre for Indian Trade Unions (CITU) will be held in Bangalore from January 17 to 21 to discuss issues pertaining to labour and economic policies of the Union Government.

Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday, CITU's secretary and Kerala MLA K.K. Diwakaran said delegates from all over the country would be participating in the conference to strengthen the labour movement, which was suffering owing to the "anti-working class" policies of the United Progressive Alliance's (UPA).

Four jathas, which began from different parts of the country, would culminate in Bangalore for the conference.

One jatha, in which Mr Diwakaran is participating, reached Mysore on Monday after starting in Tamil Nadu and passing through Kerala. The jatha left Mysore for Mandya enroute to Bangalore.

As many as 2,500 delegates, including 35 foreign delegates, besides one lakh people are expected to attend the five-day conference. The conference will focus on the international trade union movement, judiciary and Indian working class, approach paper on Eleventh Five Year Plan, menace of contract labour policy and Special Economic Zones, besides the impact of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) treaty.

Mr. Diwakaran said the trade union movement was passing through a difficult phase in the wake of globalisation and liberalisation, which had dealt a major setback to the labour movement.

The Government was encouraging the contract system of labour, which was fragmenting labour unions, he added.

Mr. Diwakaran said the CITU was against the creation of Special Economic Zones (SEZ).

Multinational companies and capitalists venturing into SEZs were denying the rights of trade unions, he said.

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