
United Trade Union Congress (Bolshevik) is a federation oftrade unions in Kerala, India. UTUC(B) emerged from a split in theUnited Trade Union Congress. UTUC(B) is politically tied toRevolutionary Socialist Party (Bolshevik). Initially, K.C. Vamadevan was president of UTUC(B) and T.M. Prabha was the general secretary of UTUC(B).[1]
UTUC(B) was affected by the 2005 split in RSP(B). UTUC(B) had won the trade union elections at theKerala Minerals and Metals Ltd, but within the KMML union divisions between followers ofBabu Divakaran andShibu Baby John emerged in March 2005. The majority of UTUC(B) trade unionists at KMML sided with Divakaran. On 11 November 2005, clashes erupted at a UTUC(B) conference inChavara. A section of UTUC(B) sided with Babu Divakaran's breakaway-group,Revolutionary Socialist Party (Marxist). UTUC(B) president, K.C. Vamadevan, and general secretary, T.M. Prabha, joined RSP(M). RSP(M) formed a rivalUnited Trade Union Congress (Marxist).[1][2]
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