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KOCHI: Union Defence Minister A.K. Antony has urged trade unions to focus on uniting workers in the unorganised sector. Inaugurating a three-day leadership camp organised by the INTUC here on Monday, Mr. Antony said trade unions were more focussed on organising workers in the industrial sector. Their involvement in the farm and plantation sectors seemed to be on the decline. Even while organising the workers in modern industrial units, trade unions should also concentrate on workers in the non-white collar segments. The INTUC would emerge as the biggest and powerful organisation if it focussed on the unorganised sector, he said. Mr. Antony said the country had made tremendous progress in various sectors after the introduction of liberalisation policies by the Congress government. At the same time, a few employers were taking undue advantage of the emerging situation in the country by exploiting the workers by resorting to hire-and-fire policy. They even go to the extent of refusing to recognise the rights of the workers for collective bargaining, he said. According to Mr. Antony, he had a tough time with the INTUC during his stint as president of the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC). Mr. Antony also released a report on the activities undertaken by the organisation during the last 200 days.
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