Ratify ILO conventions on workplace Safety | AITUC Statement

All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)

Press Release

The following statement released to the press by Amarjeet Kaur General Secretary AITUC

2nd July 2025

Ratify ILO conventions 155 and 187 on workplace Safety. Scrap Anti Worker Labour Codes

AITUC sends condolences to the families of victims of recent ghastly deaths of 40 workers and several in the fire accidents in Sigachi Chemical Factory in Sangareddy, Telangana, four deaths in the illegal factory in Rithala Delhi, another four in fire-cracker factory in Shivakasi, Tamilnadu. We demand compensation of Rs 50 lakh to the family of each deceased person and Rs. 5 Lakh to each of the severely injured persons leading to disabilities.

The responsibility of these accidents does not lie only with the owners/employers but more on the Governments of the day. Modi Government for last eleven years have been diluting the labour laws against workers to the advantage of employers in the name of "Ease of Doing Business". The inspections have been done away, decriminalization of the violations by employers, increase in working hours, snatching the right to strike, providing not only the laxity in procurements of NOC for environment protection, but even moratorium for some years on these laws ignoring the rights of workers as well as the lives of people living in the vicinity of these industrial establishments.

The NDA government led by Mr Narendra Modi is treating the workers as guinea pigs and all the aims of labour law changes are directed at legalising the existing violations happening at the workplace.

In this background it becomes more significant to prepare for the forthcoming Nationwide General Strike on 9th July against the anti-worker, anti-farmer and anti-national policies of the Government to make it a grand success to be followed by sustained struggles.

Amarjeet Kaur
General Secretary AITUC