Interview and profile of Raja Kulkarni, INTUC union activist for last 50 years. Initially worked in the textile mills of Jalgaon, Maharashtra. He was the general secretary of the Mill Mazdoor Sabha, from 1949-1959. In ...
Interview of Rajendra Prasad Yadav. He was from a family of freedom fighters and he came to Bokaro in 1969, to work as a supervisor in GRSEL, but soon joined the trade union movement there. Worked specially with unorganised ...
Interview and profile of Rajshekhar Mantri, Vizag Steel Plant Workers Union. Got elected as General Secretary in 1982 for the first time. He joined INTUC, as his grandfather too was in the Congress. He has led campaigns ...
Interview and profile of Rama Moorthy leader of HMS. He works with temple workers, ministerial, municipal and other workers. In material matters, he thinks that the "union is god".
Interview of Ranen Sen, one of the early builders of the communist movement in Bengal. Began political life in 1925, and joined Yugantar. After reading books of Marx, and meeting communist leaders, he joined the Workers ...
Interview of Ranvir Singh Yadav. He joined the TU movement as an office bearter at the Bikaner workshop of the railways. Participated in the 1967 strike and removed from job for several months. Also participated in the ...
Profile of Ratan Roy, trade union leader from Bihar. He was the General Secretary of Bihar AITUC for a long time. Born in 1923, he got involved in radical politics through student movement. Initially he was a member of the ...
Interview of Ratnakar, trade union leader from Maharashtra. Initially associated with the RSS, he went on to join the CPI, after reading books on Marxism. He got associated with the Beedi workers movement in Ahmednagar in ...
Interview of Roza Deshpande, veteran Left and trade union leader. Born in 1929, both her parents were leading communists. She lived with the workers from her childhood, got educated in Poona and saw the naval mutiny with ...
Interview and profile of Gangadhar Reddy, General Secretary of All India Centre of Trade Unions, a break away faction of CITU. His college friends were Naxals, but he joined CPM. He helped in court cases of Naxal friends ...
Interview of Salil Kar, veteran union leader. Born in 1933 in West Bengal, he got active in politics from student days. From 1966 onwards, he became a full timer for CPI. He got deeply involved in the 1969 movement in ...
Interview of Samar Chakravorty, Secretary, Bengal INTUC. Born in Bangladesh, he left home in 1947 for college and got involved in relief work for refugees. Came to the trade union movement under the influence of Aurobindo ...
Interview of Sanat Mehta, trade union leader, and former member of Parliament, from Gujarat. Participated in the Quit India movement, when still a student. Undet the influence of Ashok Mehta, began organising workers in ...
Interview of Satpal Dang, veteran CPI leader and legislator from Punjab. Born in Ramnagar, present Pakistan, in a land owning farmer family, he went to the Govt College in Lahore for education. Became General Secretary of ...
Interview of Satya Narayan Thakur, Secretary, AITUC. Originally from Darbhanga, and born in 1937, he studied till class 11th. Initially he joined the Khadi Gramodyog in Muzzarpur. In 1970s, he organised an all Bihar khadi ...
MPTUC and Gwalior Rayon Silk Manufacturing Co. (Grasim) Mazdoor Union Nagda: Memo to Indian Labour Conference on Reduction of work hours in hazardous Industries, dated 3 October 1961. Birla INTUC Bonus agreement in Gwalior ...
Correspondence, Unions leaflets, Union demands in mines, textiles, Jute, sugar mills regarding DA, wages, gratuity, bonus, corrupt practices by management, union membership and affiliation dues, plans for unions convention, ...
Interview of Saurbandhu Kar, General Secretary, Orissa AITUC. Born in 1948 in a middle class family, he joined Bank services and got involved in unionism. He organised movements against child labour, disinvestment in NALCO ...
Interview of Shambhu Nath Banerjee. A veteran trade union leader, he also regularly practices as a pandit, in shraadh ceremonies. He is associated with the Bharat Sevashram Sangh and made a union of Pandits in Gaya also. ...