PK Gurudasan, KN Raveendranath and MM Lawrence have been removed from their posts in the recently concluded CITU meet while Elamaram Kareem has been elected as the national secretary of CITU.
The CITU national meet is set conclude today. The meet will end with a rally in which more than two lakh people are expected to take part. Prominent CITU leaders will address the rally which marks the end of the meet that lasted for five days.
Four-day All India CITU conference begins in Kannur. The meet aims at increasing the unity among various trade unions across India. 2,000 representatives from various parts of India are part of this meet.
Kannur is all set for the CITU national meet which will begin on April. The four-day meet will have more than 2,000 representatives from various parts of the country. The meet aims at strengthening the unity among various sections of the trade union.
Sinthanai Kalam | P Munusamy of CITU explains why trade unions are calling the 48-hour strike. The trade unions are protesting fuel price hike, inflation, railway fare hike, among other things.
Delhi remains unaffected by the nationwide 48-hour strike call by trade unions. The metro train services and the Delhi Transport Corporation continued their services without any interruption. Meanwhile, police arrested 70 people in connection with violence in ...
Kerala crawls back to normal on the second day of the two-day strike called by trade unions. Initial reports point out that unlike yesterday, more private vehicles and auto-rickshaws are on the road. Sources, however, suggest that there might be attempts to di...
The 48-hour strike called by all major trade unions in India, including AITUC, INTUC, and CITU, enters day two. The first day of the strike went smoothly in Tamil Nadu and public transport was seen plying through the day. However banks remained closed much to...
The two-day strike called by the trade unions in protest of the policies of the central government, has put people in a tight spot. Reports say that KSRTC is likely to start service with police protection. Even though the strike looks complete in Kerala, peopl...
Kerala, known for its frequent hartals, is all set to celebrate the 48 hour strike called by the trade unions. On the eve of the strike, people were lined up in military discipline in front of State Beverages Corporation. It is a well known fact that in Kerala...
The two-day nationwide strike called by prominent trade unions turns out to be a bandh in Kerala. In Thiruvananthapuram, most of the vehicles are off the road and without the public transport system, normal life comes to a standstill. In the Malabar region, tr...
The 48-hour strike called by all major trade unions in India, including AITUC, INTUC, and CITU, begins at midnight. All modes of public transport will be off the roads for the next two days, crippling life in many places. However, in Tamil Nadu, the government...
The trade unions decide to go ahead with the general strike called on Feb 20 and 21, as the talks held by the government with the representatives of eleven central trade unions fail. The trade union leaders rejected the government offer that their demands coul...
The State-owned Kerala Minerals and Metals Ltd (KMML) heads for a crisis with CITU's interference in the sale of titanium dioxide pigments. KMML decides the price of titanium dioxide, as per international standards. With a crash in international prices in Augu...
KSRTC employees under the pro-left Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) decide to go on strike today protesting the dismissal of a section of KSRTC workers. The government had earlier decided to dismiss M panel employees who participated in the strike called b...
An indefinite bus stir by private bus workers belonging the INTUC, CITU, AITUC, and BMS trade unions in Ernakulam has commenced after talks convened by the District Collector with private bus owners failed. The bus workers are demanding an increase of 50% in t...
No disciplinary action has so far been initiated against a CITU leader accused of tampering with the attendance register to get salary and other incentives without ever coming to work.
A section of private bus employees, belonging to the CITU-affiliated Kerala State Private Bus Transport Workers Federation, are on a token strike today demanding better wages, specifically, the same compensation as KSRTC employees. This has affected bus servic...