Centre of Indian Trade Unions

Centre of Indian Trade Unions, CITU is a National level Trade Union in India politically affiliated to the Communist Party of India (Marxist) as its trade union wing and is a spearhead of the Indian Trade Union Movement. The Centre of Indian Trade Unions is today one of biggest assembly of workers and classes of India. It has strong unchallangeable presence in the Indian state of Tripura besides a good presence in West Bengal, Kerala and Kanpur. They have an average presence in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.

4th CITU West Bengal state conference poster

CITU
Full nameCentre of Indian Trade Unions
Founded1970
Members5 million
AffiliationWFTU
Key peopleDr. K. Hemalatha, President
Office locationNew Delhi, India
CountryIndia
Websitewww.citucentre.org

According to the provisional statistics from the Ministry of Labour, CITU had a membership of 3,222,532 in 2002.[1]

Tapan Kumar Sen is the General Secretary and K. Hemalata is the president of CITU. K. Hemalata was the first woman President in CITU who was elected after A. K. Padmanabhan.[2] It runs a monthly organ named WORKING CLASS.

CITU is affiliated to the World Federation of Trade Unions.[3]

References
  1. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 April 2011. Retrieved 2011-04-09.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. Pioneer, The. "A first: Woman elected CITU president". The Pioneer. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
  3. World Federation of Trade Unions. Indian Trade Union Delegation visits Venezuelan Embassy in New Delhi
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