Month: May 2023

This year, the Executive Committee of the Union decided to celebrate May Day on our own, as an independent, working people’s organisation. The urgent need of the hour is to rebuild the CMU as a powerful, independent workers organisation that it once was. Our members are facing enormous difficulties due to the unprecedented economic crisis that has been brought about by the failure of successive governments, and large scale corruption. There has been a massive increase in the cost of living, while our real wages have declined alarmingly. Further, the full weight of the brutal, IMF-imposed austerity measures has fallen…