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

Presidents
1952: Michael John
1970s: Kanti Mehta
1980s: Bindeshwari Dubey,
1990s: Sudhendu Das Gupta
c.2000: Rajendra Prasad Singh

References
  1. Indian Labour Journal. 15 (1–6): 384. 1974. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  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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