Calcutta Tramways Workers' and Employees' Union
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Calcutta Tramways Workers' and Employees' Union is a trade union of workers at the Kolkata tramway. CTW&EU is affiliated to the Centre of Indian Trade Unions. CTW&EU was founded in 1975.{{Citation needed|date=June 2025}}
History
The first union involving tram workers in Kolkata was the Calcutta Tramways Employees' Union (CTEU), which was founded in 1920 following a spontaneous strike on 1 October of that year.{{Cite journal |last=Ray |first=Siddhartha Guha |date=1986 |title=Tramworkers of Calcutta: Some Reflections on Their Unionisation and Political Experience 1920 to 1930 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3520205 |journal=Social Scientist |volume=14 |issue=5 |pages=15–32 |doi=10.2307/3520205 |issn=0970-0293}}
In 1927, the union was reorganised into the Calcutta Tramways Workers' Union.{{Cite web |title=Calcutta Tramways - Banglapedia |url=https://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Calcutta_Tramways |access-date=2025-06-12 |website=en.banglapedia.org |language=en}}
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