IT and ITES Democratic Employees Association (IIDEA), a democratic and progressive organization presents its charter of demands for the rights of tech and non-tech workers in the technology and digital sector, including IT, ITEs, BPOs, E-commerce, Fintech, Digital marketing and any other workers working in non-tech sector using technology.
On March 19, 2025, hundreds of contract and outsourced workers affiliated to the “Bihar Rajya Anubandh Mandaya Seva Karmi Sanyukta Morcha” (Joint Front of Bihar State Contractual Honorarium Employees) staged a sit-in protest in front of the Bihar Legislative Assembly in Patna. Their demands included regularizing their employment, granting them state government employee status, increasing their honorarium by 53%, providing gratuity benefits, and implementing a minimum pension of Rs 10,000 under EPF.
According to the Periodic Labour Force Survey 2017–18 carried out by the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO), of the 92 million workers working in the formal sector - more than half of them are employed as informal workers. These workers are variously termed as contract temporary, casual or daily wage workers. Despite working for decades, they are forced to work with no security of tenure, with employers denying them the most basic employer- employee relationship rights.
The third Assam State Conference of AICCTU was held on 5 Feb 2025 with Comrade Basudev Bose the Central Observer. The Conference began with flag hoisting by Com. Biren Kalita and the martyr column was garlanded by Comrade Sokila Munda, the wife of the martyr Gangaram Kohl. The delegates session was inaugurated by Comrade Bibek Das, the state secretary of CPIML Liberation. He suggested to focus the work on organizing the emerging, dynamic new sections of the working class.
The 11th AICCTU National Conference – A Success!
Open Session
Politically, 2024 saw the BJP government face a significant setback in the national elections. At the same time, the year saw a number of workers’ struggles from various sectors, protesting the anti-worker policies of not only the BJP as prime perpetrator, but also various other oppositional governments and private establishments who share the same crony corporate capitalist mores.
Election for the recognition of trade unions in Indian Railways was held on 4, 5 and 6 December 2024 via Secret Ballot. This election was scheduled to be held in the year of 2019, but at last Railway Administration was compelled to hold the election at the order of Delhi High Court. Election was held at Zonal levels. This election was held at 17 zones including Metro Railway Kolkata and two Production Units at RCF, Kapurthala and CLW, Chittaranjan.
As we witness an increasing tendency towards contractualisation and casualization of work, the Supreme Court in November 2024 has held that experience marks cannot be denied to a worker merely because she was working as an outsourced manpower, if the worker performed duties that are aligned with a sanctioned post. This was in consideration of experience marks to a candidate for appointment to direct recruitment to Group C (non teaching posts).
With loud sloganeering against the anti-worker policies of the BJP and divisive ideology of the RSS in the “Hindutva Laboratory of the South” workers under the banner of AICCTU gathered for a rally in Bantwal, Dakshin Kannada declaring “Shramajeevigalu Adhikaaradatta” (Workers March towards securing power). This marked the commencement of the first state conference of AICCTU Karnataka on November 24th and 25th, 2024.