Singareni Collieries Employees Union

S.C.E.U.
Full name Singareni Collieries Employees' Union
Founded July 1978
Members 3513 (1984)
Affiliation Centre of Indian Trade Unions
Key people Bojja Bixamaiah (President), K. George (Secretary General)
Country India

The Singareni Collieries Employees Union is a trade union in the Singareni coal fields in Andhra Pradesh, India. SCEU is affiliated to the Centre of Indian Trade Unions.[1]

Formation

SCEU was formed out of a split in the All India Trade Union Congress-affiliated Singareni Collieries Workers Union in 1978. SCEU was founded at a meeting in Kothagudem in July 1978. It was registered on 2 January 1979.[2]

Membership

As of 1984, SCEU had 3,513 members. In the 1980s SCEU was characterized for being well organised and with a high-profile leadership, even though the union is one of the smaller unions in the area.[1]

Officers

As of 2005, Bojja Bixamaiah was the president of SCEU.[3] K. George had previously served as SCEU general secretary.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 Ram Reddy, R. Industrial Relations in India: A Study of the Singareni Collieries. New Delhi, India: Mittal Publications, 1990. p. 141
  2. ↑ Ram Reddy, R. Industrial Relations in India: A Study of the Singareni Collieries. New Delhi, India: Mittal Publications, 1990. p. 134
  3. ↑ http://www.thehindubusinessline.in/2005/04/26/stories/2005042601320700.htm
  4. ↑ http://www.indialabourarchives.org/usr/local/gsdl/collect/aituc/archives/HASH944e.dir/doc.xml
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