Birth and Growth of INTUC
The foundation of INTUC on 3rd May 1947-just 3 months before India attained independence. The premier trade union centre-leading the trade union movement of the country.
Acharya JB Kripalani, who was then President of the Indian National Congress inaugurated the Founding conference which was presided over by Sardar Vallabhai Patel. Among the distinguished leaders who attended the opening session were Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Shankaraaro Deo, Jagjivan Ram, BG Kher, OP Mehtab, Aruna Asaf Ali, Ram Manohar Lohia etc. and prominent trade unionists. Under the guidance of Mahatma Gandhi, the founding fathers in their wisdom preferred to let the INTUC have an independent identity with its own constitution, while at the same time functioning as an arm of the Congress. INTUC is the only one trade union centre stressing the need for a new work culture. Gandhi Ji believed that employees and employers were partners; they owned industry jointly. Capital has its power. So did labour. Both labour and capital had therefore to act as trustees of their power, holding it in trust and using it for the welfare of the society. The philosophy, thus being that of promoting labor interests as well as interests of industry that employed them. While INTUC aimed at autonomy of the labor-industry set up, the leftist and rightist trade union organizations used and exploited labor as well as industry as pawns in a political game.
Read more about this topic: Indian National Trade Union Congress
Famous quotes containing the words birth and, birth and/or growth:
“Not yet the thirtieth year, the thirtieth
Station where time reverses his light heels
To run both ways, and makes of forward back;
Whose long co-ordinates are birth and death....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“I am not fooling myself with dreams of immortality, know how relative all literature is, don’t have any faith in mankind, derive enjoyment from too few things. Sometimes these crises give birth to something worth while, sometimes they simply plunge one deeper into depression, but, of course, it is all part of the same thing.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)
“Those who have been immersed in the tragedy of massive death during wartime, and who have faced it squarely, never allowing their senses and feelings to become numbed and indifferent, have emerged from their experiences with growth and humanness greater than that achieved through almost any other means.”
—Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (b. 1926)