Centre of Indian Trade Unions | |
Founded | 1970 |
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Headquarters | New Delhi, India |
Location | |
Members | 6,200,000[1] |
General Secretary | Tapan Sen |
Key people | K. Hemalata , President M. Saibabu, Treasurer |
Affiliations | WFTU |
Website | www.citucentre.org |
Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) is a national level trade union in India. The Centre of Indian Trade Unions is today one of biggest assemblies of workers and classes of India. It has strong presence in the Indian state of Tripura besides a good presence in West Bengal, Kerala and Kanpur. They have an average presence in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.
CITU has a membership of approximately 6,200,000 in 2023.[2]
Tapan Kumar Sen is the General Secretary and K. Hemalata is the president of CITU. Hemalata was the first woman president of CITU, who was elected after A. K. Padmanabhan.[3] It runs a monthly organ named WORKING CLASS.
CITU is affiliated to the World Federation of Trade Unions.[4]