Railways

LABOUR SNIPPETS – APRIL 2024

- Lekha

Almond Workers Protest in Karawal Nagar, Delhi

Workers’ Convention

Resolves to Vote Out the BJP!

Advisory for Employers to

Promote Women Workforce Participation:

No Jobs / Poor Jobs: 
The ILO Report on Education and Employment
A Worrying Picture 

- Akash Bhattacharya 

The May Day Call of AICCTU!

The Workers Manifesto – 2024

In 2014, the Modi-led BJP government decided to dissolve the Planning Commission (which was constituted in 1951 along the lines of a socialist model of centralised planning) along with the National Development Council formed to monitor the development of sectors like agriculture, education, health and also national transport systems like Railways, Roadways and Airways. Finally, on the conclusion of the 12th Five Year Plan in 2017, the Planning Commission was dissolved and was replaced by the NITI Ayog (National Institution of Transforming India).

It has become a regular feature of the Modi Government to violate existing laws and rules applicable for protection of rights of contract workers as the Railway administration has no viable mechanism to monitor the compliance of statutory laws and rules applicable for contract workers.

On 25th May, Indian Railway Employees' Federation (IREF)(affiliated to AICCTU) with all its affiliates in Zonal Railways and Production Units staged protests throughout Indian Railways to highlight eight demands arising out of their burning issues:

History of the Indian Railways gangmen dates back to the days of British imperialism when the first railway track was laid between Boribunder (Mumbai) and Thane in 1853. Poor Peasants having been uprooted from the land, left their villages for livelihood and got themselves engaged as labourers by a private railway company under the East India Company in laying railway tracks. Even in plague-affected areas they were forced to work hard without medical aid.

रेलवे के निजीकरण/निगमीकरण के खिलाफ जुझारू संघर्ष खड़ा करने का लिया संकल्प

इंडियन रेलवे इम्प्लाइज फेडरेशन (आईआरईएफ) की तरफ से लगातार यह कोशिश रही है कि रेलवे को सार्वजनिक क्षेत्र में बचाए रखने के लिए जो भी संघर्ष की ताकते हैं या फिर आज के समय में संघर्ष को अपना प्रमुख उद्देश्य मानती हैं, वे एक मंच पर आएं और संयुक्त रूप से, योजनाबद्ध तरीके से संघर्ष की अगुवाई करें.