Overview

• The BMS marked its 70th anniversary in Delhi with RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and Labour Minister Mansukh Mandaviya among delegates from the International Labour Organization and the V.V. Giri National Labour Institute attending.
• President Hiranmay Pandya reaffirmed support for the Code on Wages and the Code on Social Security while calling for amendments to the Industrial Relations Code and the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code after wider stakeholder consultations.
• The union pledged to oppose any measures that would curtail trade union rights and expressed readiness to collaborate with other labour organisations to defend collective bargaining.
• Mohan Bhagwat urged an assessment of emerging technologies’ impact on work opportunities and stressed the need for stronger protections for unorganised-sector workers.
• Pandya underscored the BMS’s “responsive cooperation” approach to governments and highlighted plans to extend social security protections to gig and platform workers.