The Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), along with the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) and All India Agricultural Workers Unions (AIAWU), has given a joint call to observe Wednesday as ‘Kisan-Mazdoor Ekta Diwas’, celebrating the date, January 19, to mark the 40th anniversary of the 1982 all-India one-day general strike. The day holds great significance in the history of the country’s trade union movement, for it marked in 1982, arguably for the first time in independent India, the peasantry and the rural-urban workforce’s coming together in a joint action to protest against the economic policies of the Central government. And, as such, every year, sectoral federations active in coal, steel, insurance and telecom sectors, among others, hold a convention on this day, while demonstrations and rallies are carried out at district levels across the country, in a bid to highlight the importance of the workers-farmers’ alliance.
— source newsclick.in | 18 Jan 2022