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Trade Union Coordination Centre | |
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| Founded | 1970 |
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| Headquarters | New Delhi, India |
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| Members | 1.6 million |
Key people | Probir Banerjee, President G.R. Shivashankar, General Secretary |
| Affiliations | WFTU |
| Website | tucc |
Trade Union Coordination Centre is a central trade union federation in India. TUCC is politically attached to All India Forward Bloc.
TUCC was founded in 1970. [1] Prasanta Das Gupta was the founding general secretary of TUCC. [2] [3] Prior to the foundation of TUCC, the trade union leaders of the Forward Bloc had belonged to the United Trade Union Congress. [4] TUCC is mainly based in the state of West Bengal. [5]
As of 1980, TUCC claimed to have 272,229 members in 182 affiliated unions. [6] The Ministry of Labour verified 65 affiliated unions with a combined membership of 123,048. [6] As of 1995, TUCC was the smallest of the ten Central Trade Union Organisations recognised by the Indian Ministry of Labour, counting 65 affiliated unions. [7] As of 2002, TUCC had 737,760 members, out of whom 554,207 were agricultural or rural workers. [8] In 2011, the Ministry of Labour and Employment estimated that the TUCC had a membership of more than 1.6 million. [9] The same number was reported by the Business Standard in 2013. [10]
As of 2013, G.R. Shivashankar was the TUCC president [11] [12] and Nripendra Kumar Mahto the general secretary.[ when? ]
Krishi Shramik Union (Agricultural Labour Union) is affiliated to TUCC. [13]
TUCC is affiliated to the World Federation of Trade Unions. [14]
