2 min readSep 23, 2026 07:05 AM IST First published on: Sep 23, 2026 at 06:40 AM ISTThe tripartite standing labour committee, which met in New Delhi to consider proposals for restructuring the industrial relations and dispute settlement system, found itself sharply divided on most of the points. While the Congress (I)-led INTUC and the employers’ associations supported the move, central trade unions belonging to the opposition parties let it be known that they could not be a party to what the AITUC representative, Homi Daji, said was “regimentation of the workforce”. Among the vocal critics of the proposals were the AITUC, CITU, BMS and UTUC (S).Boy killed in police firing