Indian National Trade Union Congress

Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC) is the trade union wing of the Indian National Congress. It was founded on 3 May 1947 and is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation. According to provisional statistics from the Ministry of Labour, INTUC had a membership of 3,892,011 in 2002.[1] INTUC claim to have 33 million members.[2]

Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC)
Full nameIndian National Trade Union Congress
Founded3 May 1947
Members3.9 million (2002)[1]
AffiliationITUC
Key peopleG. Sanjeeva Reddy (President)
Office location4, Bhai Veer Singh Marg, New Delhi
CountryIndia
Websitewww.intuc.net

Birth and growth of INTUC

The foundation of INTUC on 3 May 1947 just 3 months before India attained independence.

Acharya JB Kripalani, who was then President of the Indian National Congress inaugurated the Founding conference of INTUC. Among the distinguished leaders who attended the opening session were Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Shankarrao Deo, Jagjivan Ram, B. G. Kher, OP Mehtab, Aruna Asaf Ali, Ram Manohar Lohia, Ashoka Mehta, Ramchandra Sakharam Ruikar, Maniben Patel and other prominent trade unionists.[3]

Affiliates

The INTUC's current affiliates are:[4]

  • All India National Life Insurance Employees' Federation
  • Central Government Employees' Confederation
  • Federation of National Postal Organisations
  • Indian National Bank Employees' Federations
  • Indian National Bank Officers' Congress
  • Indian National Building Construction, Forest & Woodworkers' Federation
  • Indian National Cement Workers' Federation
  • Indian National Chemical Workers' Federation
  • Indian National Defence Workers' Federation
  • Indian National Electricity Workers' Federation
  • Indian National Food and Drink Workers' Federation
  • Indian National Jute Workers' Federation
  • Indian National Metal Workers' Federation
  • Indian National Mineworkers' Federation
  • Indian National Municipal and Local Bodies Workers' Federation
  • Indian National Paper Mill Workers' Federation
  • Indian National Plantation Workers' Federation
  • Indian National Port and Dock Workers' Federation
  • Indian National Rural Labour Federation
  • Indian National Salaried Employees' and Professional Workers' Federation
  • Indian National Sugar Mill Workers' Federation
  • Indian National Textile Workers' Federation
  • Indian National Transport Workers' Federation
  • National Federation of Indian Railwaymen
  • National Federation of Petroleum Workers
  • National Federation of Telecommunication Organisations

Leadership

Presidents
# Name Took office Left office
1 Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel 1947 1948
2 Pratap Singh 1948 1950
3 Khandubhai Desai 1950 1952
4 Michael John 1952 1955
5 Gopala Ramanujam 1958 1960
6 Kamakhya P. Tripathi 1960 1968
7 Abid Ali 1968 1970
8 Mrs. Maitreyee Bose 1970 1972
9 Bijoy Chandra Bhagwati[5] 1972 1978
10 N. K. Bhatt[6] 1978 1984
11 Pt. Bindeshwari Dubey[7] May 1984 March 1985
12 Gopala Ramanujam March 1985 3 August 1994
13 G. Sanjeeva Reddy 3 August 1994 Incubent
gollark: And some thinky stuff too.
gollark: And physical labour is increasingly worthless as automation replaces stuff which isn't thinky.
gollark: People value work *for its own sake* and not for the output.
gollark: As in, doing 10 hours of work for the same thing is "better" than doing 5.
gollark: This will also disincentivize children as parents will not feel happy about "spending time" with them.

See also

References
  1. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 April 2011. Retrieved 9 April 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. Dhoot, Vikas. "INTUC claims 3.33 crore members; Gives Cong required poll boost" – via The Economic Times.
  3. India Business Yearbook 2009 Career Launcher India Ltd - 2009by - Page 284 The Congress INTUC was born on May 3, 1947 as a historic necessity, just before India attained independence. ... Its founders included Ashok Mehta, RS Ruikar, Maniben Patel..Later,..
  4. "Industrial Federation". Indian National Trade Union Congress. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
  5. Hazarika, Sanjoy (14 October 2000). Strangers of the Mist: Tales of War and Peace from India's Northeast. ISBN 9788184753349.
  6. July 15, india today digital; July 15, 1986 ISSUE DATE:; February 3, 1986UPDATED:; Ist, 2014 16:24. "Rajya Sabha elections: Rajiv Gandhi scores a clean victory over virtually everybody else in Congress(I)". India Today.CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. "Bihar CM Bindeshwari Dubey fights Jagannath Mishra, mafia gangs in battle for Dhanbad". India Today.
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