The Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) flays the Union Govt for not holding consultative meeting with the representatives of workers group in preparing the Govt of India response and submissions to the Second World Summit for Social Development organised by UNO at Davos of Qatar on 4-6 November 2025 and not including workers group representatives in the Indian Delegation to the Summit.
The Resolution on the 2nd World Summit for Social Development adopted on 9th June 2025 by the 113th International Labour Conference of ILO held at Geneva has a advisory to all the member states Govt's to involve the representatives of the Employers and Workers in the preparation of response and submissions to the Summit and also to include the representatives of employers and workers group in the Govt delegation to the Summit.
The 10 central trade unions including CITU have jointly written on 12th July 2025 to the Hon'ble Minister for Labour & Employment and urged for an immediate consultative meeting based on the advisory of the Resolution of 113th ILC and requested to include workers group representatives in the Indian delegation to the 2nd World Summit for Social Development.
The Modi led NDA Govt of India is deliberately not discussing with the workers groups on policy issues in spite of pointer by the central trade unions and ILO directions as per the ILC Resolution to which Govt of India is also a party as member state.
The Govt of India not holding consultative meetings with workers group representatives in framing the response and submissions to the 2nd World Summit for Social Development and excluding the workers groups representatives in the Indian Delegation to the Summit is violation of the Convention 144 - Convention on Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention 1976 which is ratified by India.
This practice of not consulting the Trade Unions is part of Modi Govts deliberate policy of not holding Indian Labour Conference and having tripartite consultations on labour issues all through the Modi Govt's rule for last 11 years.
Issued by,
Tapan Sen
General Secretary
