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United Trade Union Congress (Bolshevik)
United Trade Union Congress (Bolshevik) is a federation of trade unions in Kerala, India. UTUC(B) emerged from a split in the United Trade Union Congress. UTUC(B) is politically tied to Revolutionary Socialist Party (Bolshevik). Initially, K.C. Vamadevan was president of UTUC(B) and T.M. Prabha was the general secretary of UTUC(B). UTUC(B) was affected by the 2005 split in RSP(B). UTUC(B) had won the trade union elections at the Kerala Minerals and Metals Ltd, but within the KMML union divisions between followers of Babu Divakaran and Shibu Baby John emerged in March 2005. The majority of UTUC(B) trade unionists at KMML sided with Divakaran. On 11 November 2005, clashes erupted at a UTUC(B) conference in Chavara. A section of UTUC(B) sided with Babu Divakaran's breakaway-group, Revolutionary Socialist Party (Marxist). UTUC(B) president, K.C. Vamadevan, and general secretary, T.M. Prabha, joined RSP(M). RSP(M) formed a rival United Trade Union Congress (Marxist). References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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United Trade Union Congress is a central trade union organisation in India. UTUC is politically tied to Revolutionary Socialist Party (India), Revolutionary Socialist Party. Ashok Ghosh is the general secretary of UTUC. According to provisional statistics from the Ministry of Labour, UTUC had a membership of 383,946 in 2002. UTUC was founded at an All India Labour Conference in Calcutta, 1 May 1949. The founding president was professor K. T. Shah, K.T. Shah, a member of the Constituent Assembly of India, Constituent Assembly from Bombay, and the founding general secretary was Mrinal Kanti Bose, a former AITUC president from Bengal. At the time of its foundation, Bose claimed that the organisation consisted of 236 unions with a combined membership of 347,428. Initially, UTUC profiled itself as an independent trade union centre, organising members of different leftwing factions. In 1953 the Deputy Labour Minister of India, Abid Ali Jaferbhai, Abid Ali, estimated the UTUC membersh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
