United Trade Union Congress (Bolshevik) is a federation of trade union

Trade union

A trade union, trades union or labor union is an organization of workers that have banded together to achieve common goals such as better working conditions. The trade union, through its leadership, bargains with the employer on behalf of union members and negotiates labour contracts with...

s in Kerala

Kerala

or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

, India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. UTUC(B) was emerged out of a split in the United Trade Union Congress

United Trade Union Congress

United Trade Union Congress is a central trade union organisation in India. UTUC is politically tied to Revolutionary Socialist Party. Abani Roy is the general secretary of UTUC. According to provisional statistics from the Ministry of Labour, UTUC had a membership of 383 946 in 2002.UTUC was...

. UTUC(B) is politically tied to Revolutionary Socialist Party (Bolshevik)

Revolutionary Socialist Party (Bolshevik)

Revolutionary Socialist Party of Kerala [RSP] was formed as a splinter-group from Revolutionary Socialist Party in Kerala in 2001. The party leader at the time of its formation was Baby John, formerly an important RSP leader in Kerala....

. Initially, K.C. Vamadevan was president of UTUC(B) and T.M. Prabha was the general secretary of UTUC(B).

UTUC(B) was affected by the 2005 split in RSP(B). UTUC(B) had won the trade union elections at the Kerala Minerals and Metals Ltd, but within the KMML union divisions between followers of Babu Divakaran

Babu Divakaran

Babu Divakaran is an Indian politician and a former Minister from the state of Kerala. He started his political career in Revolutionary Socialist Party. When RSP split, he joined Revolutionary Socialist Party along with Baby John, Shibu Baby John, and A.V. Thamarakshan...

 and Shibu Baby John

Shibu Baby John

Shibu Baby John is the present Labour Minister. He is also the only Engineer in Kerala cabinet. He is also the General Secretary of Revolutionary Socialist Party party based in Kerala, India. He is the son of RSP leader Late Baby John and Annamma John...

 emerged in March 2005. The majority of UTUC(B) trade unionists at KMML sided with Divakaran. On November 11, 2005, clashes erupted at a UTUC(B) conference in Chavara

Chavara

Chavara is approximately 14 km north of Kollam City on the Kollam-Alappuzha highway in India. Tonnes of mineral sand, mainly titanium, are exported from Chavara to various countries. The Kovilthottam port is situated within the limits of Chavara Panchayat.Kovilthottam is a strip of land ...

. A section of UTUC(B) sided with Babu Divakaran's breakaway-group, Revolutionary Socialist Party (Marxist)

Revolutionary Socialist Party (Marxist)

Revolutionary Socialist Party of India is a political party in Kerala, India. It was formed by the former Labour Minister of Kerala, Babu Divakaran in 2005. Divakaran broke away from the Revolutionary Socialist Party when the group around the RSP general secretary AV Thamaraksan decided that RSP...

. UTUC(B) president, K.C. Vamadevan, and general secretary, T.M. Prabha, joined RSP(M). RSP(M) formed a rival United Trade Union Congress (Marxist)

United Trade Union Congress (Marxist)

United Trade Union Congress is a federation of trade unions in Kerala, India. UTUC was emerged out of a 2005 split in the United Trade Union Congress . UTUC is politically tied to Revolutionary Socialist Party . T.M. Prabha is the general secretary of UTUC....

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