The Assam Chah Mazdoor Sangha (Assamese: অসম চাহ মজদুৰ সংঘ, translation: Assam Tea Workers Union, abbreviated ACMS) is the largest trade union organizing labourers in tea gardens of the Assam Valley in north-eastern India. The union is affiliated with the Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC). As of the early 2000s, ACMS claimed a membership of 1.1 million (another figure, presented in 2009, put the total membership at 435,207). The organisational network of ACMS includes 850 company tea gardens. ACMS was founded in the 1958. After the Independence of India, the Indian National Congress leaders in Assam sought to strengthen INTUC in order to counter the influence of communist unions affiliated with the All India Trade Union Congress. ACMS was set up by the Dibrugarh Congress leader Mohendra Nath Sarmah and a grouping of tea garden trade unionist leaders. An agreement was reached between the Assam Chief Minister Gopinath Bordoloi, INTUC and the Indian Tea Association (ITA). INTUC promised the plantation owners not to engage in 'disruptive' union activism whilst Indian Tea Association promised INTUC free access to organising in the tea gardens. Through this agreement with the tea plantation owners, ACMS was able to establish a virtual monopoly over labour organising in the Assam Valley tea gardens. More information...
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