A group of unions in India, including some representing the country’s apparel, textile and footwear sectors, have pledged to intensify their fight against precarious work and strengthen union power.
A meeting in Delhi at the weekend saw representatives from IndustriAll, the Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC), and the Working Peoples Trade Union (WPTU) discuss the achievements, hurdles and way forward in union organising, as well as the fight against precarious work in India, strengthening women’s participation and bringing an end to violence.
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“In moving forward, IndustriAll aims to intensify its efforts to support workers in the supply chains across the manufacturing sector,” said assistant general secretary Jenny Holdcroft.
The global union “will provide strategic support to its affiliates through global framework agreements, fight to stop precarious work, fight for a living wage, capacity building on sustainable industrial policy, industry 4.0 and just transition. Strengthening women’s participation and their rights, and the campaign to stop violence against women will be an integral part of IndustriAll’s work in future.”
G Sanjeeva Reddy, president of INTUC, added that the Indian trade union movement is facing “extraordinary” attacks from the pro-corporate and anti-worker policies of the Indian government.
“We have launched countrywide mobilisations of workers to fight these unjust policies. It is paramount that the international trade union movement extends concrete solidarity to millions of working people in India.”
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By GlobalDataR Kuchelan, president of WPTUC, added: “India is facing many challenges, including erosion of democratic norms and secular values, unprecedented attacks on union rights, and a proliferation of precarious work and unemployment. Given the challenges, the trade union movement ought to build unity to resist anti-workers policies of the government. We need to strategically work to build union power across the manufacturing sectors.”
