Trade Union Coordination Centre

Trade Union Coordination Centre is a central trade union federation in India. TUCC is politically attached to All India Forward Bloc.

TUCC

Trade Union Coordination Centre
Founded	1970; 55 years ago (1970)
Headquarters	New Delhi, India
Location	India
Members	1.6 million
Key people	Probir Banerjee, President G.R. Shivashankar, General Secretary
Affiliations	WFTU
Website	tucc.forwardbloc.org

TUCC was founded in 1970.^[1] Prasanta Das Gupta was the founding general secretary of TUCC.^[2][3] Prior to the foundation of TUCC, the trade union leaders of the Forward Bloc had belonged to the United Trade Union Congress.^[4] TUCC is mainly based in the state of West Bengal.^[5]

As of 1980 TUCC claimed to have 272,229 members in 182 affiliated unions.^[6] The Ministry of Labour verified 65 affiliated unions with a combined membership of 123,048.^[6] As of 1995 TUCC was the smallest of the ten Central Trade Union Organisations recognised by the Indian Ministry of Labour, counting 65 affiliated unions.^[7] As of 2002, TUCC had 737,760 members, out of whom 554,207 were agricultural or rural workers.^[8] In 2011, the Ministry of Labour and Employment estimated that the TUCC had a membership of more than 1.6 million.^[9] The same number was reported by the Business Standard in 2013.^[10]

As of 2013, G.R. Shivashankar was the president of TUCC.^[11][12] The general secretary is Nripendra Kumar Mahto.^[when?]

Krishi Shramik Union (Agricultural Labour Union) is affiliated to TUCC.^[13]

TUCC is affiliated to the World Federation of Trade Unions.^[14]