Whole Industry Trade Union Nepal (WHIN)
In the history of trade union movement of Nepal, after the first generation of movement in 1947, the workers movement was limited to enterprise and local level. The movement of 1979 along with the historical student movement rose up in several cities of Nepal like Kathmandu, Hetauda and Biratnagar. The workers involved in those movements organised first National Meeting on January 29, 1980 and formed Nepal Independent Workers Union (NIWU). This union is the oldest union of GEFONT family. First affiliate among the four founding unions of GEFONT; this affiliate was also recognised as first legally registered Trade Union Federation in Department of Labour.
After GEFONT "Line-industry Campaign' in 1995 the Nepal Independent Workers Union which organised workers of all the industry sectors, regrouped into four sector-specific National Federations. The four unions were namely, Nepal Independent Chemical- Iron Workers’ Union (NICIWU), Nepal Independent Food and Beverage Workers’ Union (NIFBWU), Independent Textile Garment Workers’ Union of Nepal (ITGWUN) and Nepal Independent Workers’ Union (NIWU). An d NIWU remained as a federation which organised sectors like Leather and shoes factory, Tobacco and cigarettes factory, brick kiln and tile factory, wood carving and handicraft industry, furniture and plywood industry, tent and tarpaulin, dry cleaning, colour lab, film industry etc.
Heeding to the present world-wide tendency of consolidating industry-unions and with the aim to increase production and productivity, improve workers’ quality of life, better equipped to safeguard worker’s right and benefit, and strengthen trade union movement, the three unions namely NIWU, NICIWU and NIFBWU have been merged into one Federation– Whole Industry Trade Union Nepal (WHIN) on May 24, 2013. The Federation is affiliated to GEFONT at national level and at international level it is affiliated to IndustriALL global union.
Affiliates Activities
Yogmaya Memorial Day completed
Whole Industry Trade Union Nepal (WHIN) Central Women's Committee has organised a discussion forum under the chairmanship of Geeta Bhandari, head of women's committee, in the context of "Yogamaya Memorial Day" on July 6 at GEFONT Trade Union School.
Chief guest Binda Pandey, a CPN (UML) Standing Committee member shed light on Yogmaya's contribution to social change.
Arjun Chaulagain initiated the program hosted by Ram Chaulagain with the participation of leaders including CPN (UML) central member Bina Shrestha, GEFONT Deputy General Secretary Kamala Tamang and WHIN President Anand Thami.
WHIN Makwanpur holds discussion on contemporary issues and solutions in the labour sector.
A discussion program was held on August 3rd in the assembly hall of GEFONT located in Hetauda under the organisation of Whole Industry Trade Union Nepal (WHIN) Makwanpur District Coordination Committee.
The chief guest of the program Binod Shrestha, president of the General Federation of Nepalese Trade Unions (GEFONT), covered the questions raised by the participants in the discussion and shed light on the current problems and solutions in the labour sector, along with the path to be taken by GEFONT and related unions.
President Shrestha said that labour cutback, complexity of contract implementation, implementation of labour law, effective implementation of contribution-based social security are the challenges in the current labour market and there is a necessity to organise a movement in a new way to solve these problems.
WHIN Central President Anand Thami, Secretary Geeta Bhandari, GEFONT Bagmati Province President Ramhari Nepal, WHIN Central Member Binod Lamichhane and other leaders participated in the meeting hosted by Vishwanath Sanjel under the chairmanship of WHIN Makwanpur District Coordination Committee President Keshav Adhikari.
Krishna Raut as Chairman of Whin Polimarsh.
The second session of Whole Industry Trade Union Nepal (WHIN) Polymers Pvt. Ltd. held on August 3 has elected a 7-member working committee under the leadership of Krishna Raut.
In the convention held under the chief hospitality of WHIN Central President Anand Thami, the guests including Central Secretary Geeta Bhandari and Central Member Manoj Chaudhary gave their greetings, and WHIN Central Secretary Gita Bhandari informed that Manoj Ghimire hosted oath taking ceremony of the newly elected working committee.
