the government to implement its
assurances and thus played its role
of reneging the strike call in favor
of the BJP’s, NDA government, the
INTUC chief Sanjeeva Reddy too
shown his true nature, by
announcing on Aug.29 that “if the
government can at the earliest
accede to at least two of our
demands-relating to the revision of
the minimum wage and doing away
with cap on bonus- we are willing
to rethink our stand”. The General
Secretary of AITUC, Gurudas
Gupta announced that one of their
key demand is raising the minimum
wage cap and ending the wage
partiality between regular and
contract labour and Amarjeet Kaur,
another top leader of AITUC had
more explicity announced that “the
purpose of this strike is to bring the
government to the negotiating
table”. Thus the orientation of the
central trade union leadership is
purly based on economism and in
the accommodating mode with the
government, ruling classes and the
big-capital on behalf of the workers
of the country who are aspiring to
protect their legal rights, and who
are obstinately refusing to be
moulded in to a new type of bonded
labour in the hands of the bigcapital.
That is why, the workers
movement that is being led with the
orientation of economism,
adjustment with the rul