Objectives

Core Aims and Objectives

1. Defense of Democratic and Trade Union Right
   

   • Oppose all encroachments on the economic and social rights of workers and fight for the enlargement of their democratic rights and civil liberties, including the right to strike

   • Win the statutory recognition of trade unions based on a secret ballot.

2. Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
   

   • Fight for the progressive improvement and revision of real wages.

   • Demand the reduction of standard working hours and adequate rest periods.

   • Demand decent, hygienic housing and improved amenities and living standards for all workers.

3. Employment and Job Security
   

   • Demand constitutional recognition of the Right to Work and security of full employment.

   • Resist retrenchments, closures, contract work, outsourcing, and precarious casualization of jobs.

4. Comprehensive Social Security

   • Secure adequate social security legislation protecting workers and their dependents against sickness, industrial accidents, invalidity, and old age.

   • Provide comprehensive maternity benefits, pension protections for dependents, and welfare schemes with effective workers' oversight.

5. Equality and Elimination of Discrimination

   • Enforce equal pay for equal work.

   • Eradicate discrimination based on gender, caste (including untouchability), creed, or religion regarding recruitment, wages, and career promotions.

   • Defend the democratic rights of religious and linguistic minorities.

6. Education and Skill Development

   • Provide free, quality vocational and technical training for workers.

   • Work toward the total elimination of illiteracy among working people.

7. Trade Union Unity and Organizing the Unorganized

   • Assist unorganized and informal sector workers to form unions and secure statutory protections.

   • Rally fragmented and rival unions within each industry toward unity on common class interests.

8. Economic Demands and Resistance to Privatization

   • Demand the nationalization of strategic domestic and foreign monopoly sectors.

   • Fight against policies of imperialist globalization, privatization, and deregulation that threaten the nation's economic sovereignty.

9. Class Struggle and Anti-Imperialism
   

   • Reject class collaboration and maintain that real social transformation requires continuous class struggle.

   • Foster international solidarity with working-class movements worldwide.

   • Stand for world peace, opposing imperialist wars, militarism, and weapons of mass destruction.