role ACMS is a politically important pillar for the influence of the Congress Party in Assam. Through ACMS the party is able to wield significant voters' support in five Lok Sabha constituencies; Kaliabor, Jorhat, Dibrugarh, Mangaldoi and Lakhimpur (these areas also correspond to roughly half of the Vidhan Sabha seats of Assam). Organisation ACMS has 22 branch organisations. The union has its headquarters at Jiban Phukan Nagar in Dibrugarh. In total ACMS and its local branches has a staff of 380 persons (as of 2018). As of 2018, the membership fee of ACMS stood at 60. Moreover, each member is obliged to pay 12% of his/her gross income to the Provident Fund. As of 2009 the Provident Fund stood at 27 billion, gathered through collections amongst its members. ACMS is affiliated with the Building and Wood Workers' International and the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Association. In the Cachar, another tea-producing region of Assam, INTUC has another affiliate, the Cachar Chah Sramik Union. See also Assam Tea Darjeeling Tea Indian Tea Association References External links http://assamchahmazdoorsangha.org/ http://acms.org.in/ ACMS Facebook page Tea industry in Assam Indian National Trade Union Congress 1958 establishments in Assam Indian agriculture and forestry trade unions Trade unions established in 1958