Indian National Mineworkers' Federation

The Indian National Mineworkers' Federation (INMF) is a trade union representing miners in India.

History

The union was founded in 1949 on the initiative of the Indian National Trade Union Congress, bringing together numerous regional unions of miners.^[1] It grew steadily, having 150,000 members by 1960,^[2] and 351,000 by 1997, at which time the federation had 139 affiliated unions.^[3]

By 2017, the union represented 40% of the workers for Coal India.^[4]

Leadership

General Secretaries

c.1960: Kanti Mehta

1980s: Sudhendu Das Gupta

c.1990: Bindeshwari Dubey

c.2000: S. Q. Zama

Lalan Choubey

Presidents

1952: Michael John

1970s: Kanti Mehta

1980s: Bindeshwari Dubey

1990s: Sudhendu Das Gupta

c.2000: [Chandra Shekhar Dubey] Ex MP

References

^ Indian Labour Journal. 15 (1–6): 384. 1974. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
^ Goldberg, Arthur (1960). Directory of International Trade Union Organizations. Washington DC: United States Department of Labour. pp. 10.1 – 10.16.
^ The Far East and Australasia. Europa Publications. 1998. p. 382. ISBN 1857430387.
^ Rakshit, Avishek (17 June 2017). "Coal India's trade unions in pursuit of global exposure". Business Standard. Retrieved 21 October 2019.

[1] Indian Labour Journal. 15 (1–6): 384. 1974. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

[goldberg-2] Goldberg, Arthur (1960). Directory of International Trade Union Organizations. Washington DC: United States Department of Labour. pp. 10.1 – 10.16.

[3] The Far East and Australasia. Europa Publications. 1998. p. 382. ISBN 1857430387.

[4] Rakshit, Avishek (17 June 2017). "Coal India's trade unions in pursuit of global exposure". Business Standard. Retrieved 21 October 2019.

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