All India General Strike On May 21, 2003

A National consultation meeting of trade unions, participated by the representatives of national/state/regional level trade unions, industrial federations and all India organisations of employees unanimously called upon the working class and the toiling people to stage a massive countrywide general strike on May 21, 2003. This strike should be preceded by intensive joint campaigns and preparatory action programmes.

The notice for the general strike will be served jointly in all establishments on May 6  through massive demonstrations. The consultation meeting, which was held in New Delhi on March 12, appealed to all workers and unions, irrespective of affiliations, to make the all India general strike a telling success. The meeting  endorsed eight point demands formulated jointly by all the central trade unions and independent unions and federations in the country.

M K Pandhe (CITU),Swapan Mukerji (AICCTU), Gurudas Das Gupta (AITUC), R.A.Mital (HMS), S C Gaur (TUCC), Abani Roy (UTUC), Ashutosh Banerjee (UTUC-LS) and other leaders from independent unions and federations attended this meeting.