Interview and profile of Ms. D. Shaleel, Union Leader, HMS; Chairperson of National Committee of Railway Women Employees. Joined railways after the early death of her husband. She belongs to a Congress family and fights ...
Interview and profile of A. Govindasamy, leader of Madras Press Labour Union. He joined the Communist Party during the Second World War, worked in Burma in the British army, got dismissed due to quarrel with British ...
Interview and profile of A. Ramsubbu, union leader and mill worker of Tamil Nadu. He entered the movement as an ordinary leader and rose to become a leader of his union. Originally he was a textile worker and began his ...
Interview and profile of A. Satyanarayana, retired worker and AITUC union leader at Vizag Shipyard. He entered ITI at an early stage and learnt plumbing. Then joined a job in the shipyard. Joined CITU accidentally, after ...
Interview of A.K. Ahmad; senior most trade union leader in Bokaro Steel Plant Trade Union. Born in Gaya in 1939, he did ITI training in a polytechnic in Dhanbad. In 1960, joined a Coal Washery Construction at Bhujudi in ...
Interview of A.K. Rai, President Bihar Colliery Kamgar Union, Dhanbad. President of Ispat Mazdoor Morcha. Born in Bangladesh, he studied MSc Technology and Chemical Engineering from Calcutta University. Worked as Research ...
Interview and profile of A.M. Gopu, President, AITUC, Tamil Nadu. Originally from a family of middle traders, he came into trade unionism through student politics and then peasant politics. During 1947-48, when the CPI was ...
Interview of A.V. Nachane. He was the General Secretary of the All India Life Insurance Employees Federation. Got into communist politics when still was a student, under the influence of Dange and others. Joined LIC in ...
Interview of Abani Baral, leader, All India Federation of University and College Teacher's Organization, AIFUCTO, Bhuwaneshwar, Orissa. Belonged to a nationalist family and got associated with IPTA in 1955. Looked after ...
Interview and profile of Adi Narayana, General Secretary, Vishakhapatnam Steel Plant and associated with AITUC. Born into a family displaced by the steel plant, where he subsequently got a job, after leading a struggle of ...
Biographical profile of Ajoy Das Gupta, veteran trade union leader, Calcutta. He belonged to a family of freedom fighters. He organised workers in bank, insurance and many other sectors.
Interview of Amal Dutta. He was the General Secretary of the Electro-Steel Mazdoor Union at Kharda, Bengal, Calcutta. Born in Bangladesh, he initially was active in unionisation in the Titagarh Paper Mills, when still a ...
Interview of Amar Krishna Vyas, veteran trade union leader and Socialist Party leader, Rajasthan. Participated in Quit India movement and got influenced by the Praja Lok Mandal. Began working with Sweepers. A Harijan union ...
Interview of veteran trade union leader Amrit Nahata, from Rajasthan. Began from student politics and became very active in the Praja Mandal. Was active in the railway strike of 1946/47, which coincided with the birthday ...
Interview of Anant Nagapurkar, Member of the General Council of AITUC, Vice-president of the Maharashtra TUC. Born in 1920, he joined CPI in 1941. Organised railway workers in Hyderabad from 1943 onwards, on direction of ...
Interview of Anantha Subha Rao, leader, Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation. Born in 1942, he got influenced by MC Narsimhan in his college days. Joined AITUC and he was asked to work in the road transport union, ...
Interview of Anantha Tirtha, veteran freedom fighter and trade union leader, Bangalore. Born in a landlord family in 1934, he got influenced by Handhi initially. He organised workers in Enginnering, laundry and other ...
Interview of Anirudh Singh, Iron a Steel Leader, Bokaro Steel Plant and General Secretary of Bokaro Ispat Kamgar Union. Born in 1949, in Patna, he got associated with communist politics in college days. Also got associated ...
Interview and profile of Venkat Rao, worker, Vizag Steel Plant Union of AITUC. Joined the steel plant when it was still in construction. Got involved with CPI as a youth, when his family got displaced by the plant and CPI ...
Interview and profile of B.C. Masen, General Secretary, Harbour and Pork Workers Union, Andhra Pradesh. Belongs to the family of a fishermen. Got radicalised in youth while associated with a literary circle. Was active in ...