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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | A recipe to tear down trade unions -Gautam Mody

A recipe to tear down trade unions -Gautam Mody

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published Published on Nov 16, 2020   modified Modified on Nov 16, 2020

-The Hindu

The new labour laws are a brutal attack on workers’ ability to safeguard their rights

Labour law ‘reform’ has been on the table since 1991 as every government’s favourite solution for economic growth. Yet, there was no consensus between governments, political parties, workers and their trade unions, and employers, on what this meant. Unlike other political formations, the BJP has been in unqualified agreement with employers that the existing labour laws needed to be replaced. During its rule in 1998-2002, the BJP constituted the 2nd National Labour Commission and limited trade union representation in it. The consequent recommendations of the Commission were rejected by trade unions across the country.

This time too, the BJP-led Central government has actively excluded trade unions from pre-legislative consultations on drafting the new labour codes, repealing all existing labour laws and replacing them with four new labour codes. It saw these through Parliament in the absence of the Opposition, whilst ignoring substantive recommendations of the Parliamentary Standing Committee.

The BJP portrayed the now-repealed laws as serving only a small, exclusive section of working people, while claiming that what has now been legislated has a universal reach. This is just political chicanery. What is common to all the four codes is that they dilute workers’ rights in favour of employers’ rights, and together undermine the very idea of workers’ right to association and collective action.

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The Hindu, 16 November, 2020, https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/a-recipe-to-tear-down-trade-unions/article33104097.ece?homepage=true


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