United Trade Union Congress
- United Trade Union Congress
Infobox Union
name= UTUC
country= India
affiliation=
members=383 946 (2002)
full_name= United Trade Union Congress
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founded= 1949
current=
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dissolved_date=
dissolved_state=
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office= Kolkata, India
people= Abani Roy, general secretary
website=
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United Trade Union Congress is a central trade union organisation in India. UTUC is politically tied to Revolutionary Socialist Party. Abani Roy is the general secretary of UTUC. [ [http://www.labourfile.org/ArticleMore.aspx?id=856 Welcome to labourfile- a bimonthly journal on indian labour and economic affairs ] ] According to provisional statistics from the Ministry of Labour, UTUC had a membership of 383 946 in 2002. [http://www.labourfile.org/superAdmin/Document/113/table%201.pdf]
UTUC was founded at an All India Labour Conference in Calcutta, May 1, 1949. The founding president was professor K.T. Shah, amember 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. [Park, Richard L.. " [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0362-8949%2819490810%2918%3A16%3C181%3ALAPII%3E2.0.CO%3B2-9 Labor and Politics in India] ", in Far Eastern Survey, Vol. 18, No. 16. (Aug. 10, 1949), pp. 181-187.]
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. [Ornati, Oscar. " [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0362-8949%28195408%2923%3A8%3C113%3AITUSI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-1 Indian Trade Unions Since Independence] ", in Far Eastern Survey, Vol. 23, No. 8. (Aug., 1954), pp. 113-122.]
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