Dooars Cha Bagan Workers’ Union
The Dooars Cha Bagan Workers' Union is a trade union of tea plantation labourers in the Dooars in northern West Bengal, India. It is affiliated to the United Trade Union Congress, the labour wing of the Revolutionary Socialist Party (India), Revolutionary Socialist Party. Historically it held a strong influence among tea plantation labourers in the eastern Dooars. As of 2010, its general secretary was Manohar Tirkey. The Dooars Cha Bagan Workers' Union emerged in 1948. The first RSP-controlled tea plantation workers union was established at the Sarugaon Tea Estate. Subsequently, the union established its presence in the Majherdabri, Kohinoor and Mathura tea estates. Its founding president was Brojen Das and its general secretary was Suresh Talukdar.Gupta, Manas Das. Labour in Tea Gardens'. Delhi: Gyan Sagar Publications, 1999. 79 The union was registered in the same year.Bhowmik, Sharit. Class Formation in the Plantation System'. New Delhi: People's Pub. House, 1981. pp. xii, 15 ...
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United Trade Union Congress
United Trade Union Congress is a central trade union organisation in India. UTUC is politically tied to 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, a member of the 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, estimated the UTUC membership at 384,962. At the time UTUC had 332 affiliated unions. Thakur Mukand Singh Vaidh of Deoband ...
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