Trade Union Coordination Centre is a central

trade union A trade union (labor union in American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers intent on "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment", ch. I such as attaining better wages and benefits ...

federation in

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. TUCC is politically attached to All India Forward Bloc. TUCC was founded in 1970. Prasanta Das Gupta was the founding general secretary of TUCC. Prior to the foundation of TUCC, the trade union leaders of the Forward Bloc had belonged to the

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. TUCC is mainly based in the state of

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. As of 1980 TUCC claimed to have 272,229 members in 182 affiliated unions. The Ministry of Labour verified 65 affiliated unions with a combined membership of 123,048. As of 1995 TUCC was the smallest of the ten Central Trade Union Organisations recognised by the Indian

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, counting 65 affiliated unions. As of 2002, TUCC had 737,760 members, out of whom 554,207 were agricultural or rural workers. In 2011, the Ministry of Labour and Employment estimated that the TUCC had a membership of more than 1.6 million. The same number was reported by the

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in 2013. As of 2013, G.R. Shivashankar was the president of TUCC. The general secretary is Nripendra Kumar Mahto. Krishi Shramik Union (Agricultural Labour Union) is affiliated to TUCC. TUCC is affiliated to the

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.World Federation of Trade Unions.
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