ILO Meeting of Occupational Safety and Health
29th - 30 June, 2022 
Right to Safe and healthy Working Environment Strategic and Planning Meeting of Trade Unions
by Comrade Harbhajan Singh Sidhu
(General Secretary of Hind Mazdoor Sabha)
About HMS
Sixty Years of Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS) (1948 - 2008) - Umraomal Purohit, General Secretary Introduction: In December 2008, HMS completes sixty years since its foundation in Calcutta in the newly independent India in 1948. Of course for the labour movement, six decades are not too long a way and in that sense we have miles to go still. However, it is a matter of accomplishment for a national trade union center to have survived and grown without being a part of the political parties in a country like India where virtually every other central trade union organization is part of some political party or the other. From about 6 lakhs membership in 1948 to over 55 lakhs and still growing, is no mean achievement. But the times ahead are tough. As it is, nearly 90% of the workforce in the country is unorganized, working in low paid, over worked jobs in dismal working conditions. As we move ahead, we need to stop and think - how do we build upon what we have? How do...
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