Resolution adopted at the Conference of Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)
The four Labour Codes constitute a comprehensive attack on labour rights won through more than a century of struggles. The notification of labour codes is an attempt by the ruling class to resolve the systemic crisis of capitalism in favour of the capitalist class by attacking the basic and hard won rights of the working class. The Codes will enable capitalists to have union free workplaces and extract super profits. The General Strike on 12 February represents a decisive assertion of the collective will of the working people to defend their rights and livelihoods. The Conference called for strengthening the unity of workers, farmers, youth and other toiling sections against pro-capitalist, anti-people policies and demonstrate the might of the workers and peasants to capitalists.
CENTRE OF INDIAN TRADE UNIONS (CITU)
EIGHTEENTH CONFERENCE
“Comrade Anathalavattom Anandan Nagar”
31 December 2025- 4 January 2026, Visakhapatanam, AP
Resolution
Forward to the General Strike on 12 February 2026!
Repeal Labour Codes!
Stop the Onslaught on the Working People of India!
The 18th conference of Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) fully supports the decision of the joint platform of trade unions for a general strike demanding repeal of the four labour codes, tentatively to be held on 12th February 2026. The call for the general strike is supported by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha. It resolves to mobilise all its energies and resources to ensure emphatic success of the general strike. The call for the general strike was fully supported by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha.
This “one-day strike” is just a warning bell to the BJP led NDA government at the centre. If the Modi led government attempts to forcibly implement the Labour Codes through notifying the Rules and other measures, workers will answer with multi-days’ general strike and higher forms of resistance in the coming days and continue their fight till the labour codes are scrapped.
The conference notes the massive nationwide protests on 26 November 2025 across more than 500 districts in thousands of locations-at workplaces, industrial areas, rural regions and blocks. Workers from organised and unorganised sectors, public sector employees, government employees and scheme workers and others, all expressed their resentment and anger against the labour codes through these protest demonstrations. They were joined by the agricultural labourers, farmers, students and youth, in large numbers. These reflect the growing unity of workers and farmers—the two productive forces of the country.
The four Labour Codes constitute a comprehensive attack on labour rights won through more than a century of struggles. They are meant to weaken trade unions by restricting the right to organise and strike. They extend working hours, facilitate hire-and-fire, expand contractualisation, fixed-term employment and apprenticeship without safeguards, dilute occupational safety, dismantle inspections, weaken labour adjudication, and decriminalise employers’ violations of labour statutes while intensifying repression of workers’ struggles. The BJP led government has totally disregarded tripartism and did not convene the Indian Labour Conference since last ten years despite repeated demands by the trade unions. It has abruptly notified the labour codes despite the stiff opposition from almost the entire working class. It is spending hundreds of crores rupees of public money in deceptive propaganda seeking to mislead the workers and common people about the so called benefits of labour codes.
The 18th conference of CITU reiterates that the notification of labour codes is a desperate attempt by the ruling corporate communal nexus to address/resolve the systemic crisis of capitalism in favour of the capitalist class by attacking the basic and hard won rights of the working class; to gift their corporate bosses with union free workplaces and enable them extract super profits.
The Conference also asserts that the attacks on the constitutional and democratic rights of the people, the attacks on autonomous institutions, on federalism, the display of neo fascist characters by the ruling dispensation, and the attempts to flame communal and divisive passions and disrupt unity of the working people – are all part of these desperate attempts of the ruling classes to address the present crisis of the capitalist system.
The General Strike represents a decisive assertion of the collective will of the working people to defend their rights, livelihoods and democratic values, in the process of further heightening and intensifying the united combat against the crimes being committed on the peoples’ rights and livelihood and also on the national economy.
Therefore, the 18th National Conference of CITU:
- Fully supports the countrywide general strike called by the Joint Platform of central trade unions and the all India sectoral federations/ associations
- Demands immediate repeal of all four Labour Codes;
- Calls for strengthening the unity of workers, farmers, youth and other toiling sections against pro-corporate, anti-people policies.
The 18th conference of CITU calls upon all its affiliated unions, state committees and all India federations and coordination committees to start preparations for the success of the general strike immediately. It calls upon all the workers of the country irrespective of their affiliations to gird up their loins for the united fight to force the anti worker government to scrap the labour codes.
The conference reminds the working class of our country that this is a fight it cannot afford to lose.