CONFEDERATION LETTERS TO POLITICAL PARTIES - MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT - & - CENTRAL TRADE UNIONS ARE PLACED HEREUNDER
STATE GENERAL SECRETARIES OF CONFEDERATION AND CIRCLE SECRETARIES OF AFFILIATED ORGANISATIONS TO CONFEDERATION ARE REQUESTED TO TAKE OUT COPIES OF THE THREE LETTERS AND ORGANISE MEETING THE L OCAL MPs - STATE POLITICAL PARTIES AND STATE COMMITTEES OFNATIONAL PARTIES AS WELL AS STATE ORGANISATION OF CENTRAL TRADE UNIONS, SEEKING THEIR INTERVENTION AND SUPPORT TO OUR 12.12.12 STRIKE
ALL DISTRICT LEVEL ORGANISATIONS ARE REQUESTED TO MEET THEIR LOCAL MPs AND SEEK THEIR SUPPORT TO OUR STRIKE
CONFEDERATION WRITES TO CENTRAL TUs SEEKING SUPPORT
CONFEDERATION OF CENTRAL
GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AND WORKERS
Manihsinath Bhawan
A/2/95 Rajouri Garden
New Delhi. 110 027.
Website: confederationhq. Blogspot.com.
Dated: 22nd November, 2012
D/14/2012(1)(CTU)
Dear Comrade,
The Confederation of Central Government employees and workers, the apex level organisations of Associations/Federations/Unions of CG employees other than those working in the Railways and Defence had to take a decision to call upon its members to organise a day's strike on 12th December, 2012 due to the persisting nugatory attitude of the Government in settling the long pending demands. The Government has almost shut down all negotiation in the JCM forum in so far as employees of the departments who we represent are concerned. The Departmental Council meetings are not convened for decades; with the result none of the issues could be even discussed.
The demands inter alia include the scrapping of the new pension scheme; withdraw the PFRDA Bill; reintroduce the universal Public distribution system to help out the workers and other poor people; stoppage of outsourcing and the consequent contractorization; regularisation of the casual and contingent and daily rated workers and the Grameen Dak Sewaks whose number has increased phenomenally in the last two decades; setting up the 7th CPC for wage revision which has become due on 1.1.2011(having completed 5 years since the last revision in 2006); removal of the arbitrary restrictions on compassionate appointments; revival of the negotiating forum i.e. JCM etc. We send herewith an explanatory Note on these demands in pursuance, of which we are organising the strike on 12th December, 2012.
We shall be grateful for your support and solidarity to make our struggle successful. We shall also be thankful if you will kindly take up our demands with the Government for settlement.
Thanking you and with greetings,
Yours fraternally,
K.K.N. Kutty
Secretary General.
CONFEDERATION WRITES TO HONOURABLE MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT
CONFEDERATION OF CENTRAL
GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AND WORKERS
Manihsinath Bhawan
A/2/95 Rajouri Garden
New Delhi. 110 027.
Website: confederationhq. Blogspot.com.
Dated: 22nd November, 2012
D/14/2012(2)(MP)
Dear Sir,
The Confederation of Central Government employees and workers is the apex level organisation of all Federation/Association/Unions of CGEs other than in the Railways and Defence establishments. In our last National Council meeting, we were constrained to decide to call upon our members to organise a day's strike on 12th December, 2012 in pursuance of a 15 Point charter of demands.
As you are aware, it was in the wake of a strike action in 1960s by the Central Govt. Employees, the Govt. of India set up permanent negotiating machinery called JCM so that the employees will be able to raise their demands and grievances and seek settlement thereof through dialogue. This machinery has now come to a standstill as the Govt. does not convene the meetings of the councils at the Departmental levels on one pretext or the other. A new set of rules were promulgated in 1993 to grant recognition to Service Associations. Many Ministries, despite the employees organizations abiding by the stipulated conditions, have not afforded recognition to the Associations/Federations, thereby closing all channels of communication. The JCM had the facility of referring the issues on which the Government could not agree upon to the Board of Arbitration. The decision/award of the Board was binding on all parties. However, of late the Government had been rejecting the awards in favour of the employees on the specious plea of adverse impact on national economy by presenting resolutions in the Parliament. We need not emphasise the unethical character of this approach which undermines the confidence of the employees in the fairness of the system. Two such awards have been moved for rejection in this session of the Parliament.
The 6th CPC recommendations and its implementation had given rise to various anomalies. The employees genuinely felt that the said anomalies would be removed through discussions for which the Government had set up a committee. The Committee despite meeting on four occasions had not been able to settle the issues; nor could it be referred to the Arbitrator. The 6th CPC recommendations were implemented with effect from 1.1.2006. The revision of wages was due on 1.1.2011. The Government has not so far come forward to set up the 7th CPC.
The new contributory pension scheme was introduced by the Government on the plea that the pension liability has become unbearable and is a drag on the exchequer. In our Memorandum to the Prime Minister, we had raised several issues and had pointed out that the financial outflow on account of the new scheme will be much more than the existing defined benefit scheme. We had indicated in our memorandum quite a number of aspects which would be detrimental to the interest of workers. We were not even favour with a reply to our memorandum.
Recently the Union Cabinet has decided to allow FDI in pension fund operations. This will only result in the flow of Indian Savings for investment outside the country. The PFRDA Bill is slated as Item No. 8 for the consideration of the Parliament in this session. The real intent of the bill is reflected from the decision taken by the Union Cabinet to allow FDI in this Sector. This bill being not in the national interest must not be allowed to become an Act.
We enclose an explanatory Note on our charter of demands, which include setting up of the 7th CPC for wage revision, regularisation of GDS as Postal employees, raising the Bonus ceiling in the case of GDS on par with other workers in the country, removal of restriction of compassionate appointments, withdrawal of PFRDA Bill and grant of defined benefit pension to all Central Govt. employees; acceptance and implementation of the awards of Board of Arbitration, revival of public distribution system for making essential commodities available to the people at affordable prices; vacation of victimisation in the IA&A Department etc.
We seek your solidarity and support and request you to kindly raise these issues in the Parliament and ask the Government to settle the demands of the Government employees.
Thanking you and soliciting your help once again,
Yours faithfully,
K.K.N. Kutty
Secretary General
CONFEDERATION WRITES TO POLITICAL PARTIES SEEKING SUPPORT
CONFEDERATION OF CENTRAL
GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AND WORKERS
Manihsinath Bhawan
A/2/95 Rajouri Garden
New Delhi. 110 027.
Website: confederationhq. Blogspot.com.
Dated: 22nd November, 2012
D/14/2012(2)(PP)
Dear Sir,
We write this to request you to kindly intervene and take up the issues/demands and grievances of the Government employees with the Government.
As you are aware, the Government had been systematically and continuously shedding its functions since 1991. This policy decision has resulted in outsourcing many of the sovereign functions of the Government. Presently as much as one third of the manpower employed by the Government is casual/contingent/daily rated or contract workers who are given pittance of emoluments. Half of the workforce of the Postal Department, (which employs more than three lakhs of employees,) is Grameen Dak Sewaks. They are not even treated as Government employees. For decades they work on hourly rate salary system. Both the GDS and the other casual workers are employed for carrying out permanent and perennial nature of work. The Government thus violates the laws of the land with impunity. No scheme is in vogue today for their regularisation. The Govt. refuses to induct them as regular employees even after decades of service to their credit.
The Government employees were entitled for a statutory defined benefit pension scheme. The Government has denied it to those whoa re recruited after 1.1.2004. The post 2004 entrants are brought within the purview of the New Contributory Pension scheme, thereby making their pension entitlement subject to the market vagaries. The reason adduced by the Government for effecting the switch over from the defined benefit scheme to the defined contributory scheme was the increasing financial burden on account of the pension liability. The Committee set up by the Govt. to go into the matter itself has opined that the new contributory scheme would only make the financial burden to increase further.
The Union Cabinet has now decided to allow FDI in Pension fund operations. This will pave way for the foreign monopoly houses to garner the savings of Indian people and maximise their profit. The real intent of brining in the PFRDA Bill has become unambiguously clear from the decision of the Union cabinet to allow FDI in pension fund management.
The negotiating machinery which was set up by the Government in 1964 to address the issues and grievances of the Civil servants called the JCM in the wake of the 1960- strike has been made non functional for the Govt. do not convene its council meetings, especially at the Departmental levels. Even when it meets occasionally, the art of procrastination prevails. The machinery had a dispute settlement mechanism whereby the issues on which the Government could not agree could be referred to the Board of Arbitration, whose decision was to be final and accepted by both the parties. There are presently seventeen awards given in favour of the employees. The Govt. has decided to move resolution in the Parliament to reject every one of them. Two such awards are coming up for rejection in this session of the Parliament.
There are very many other issues, which are of extreme concern to the employees' viz. the never abating rise in prices of essential commodities, the restoration of compassionate appointments; the overdue wage revision; the untenable vindictive actions against the union functionaries especially in the Indian Audit and Accounts Department etc. Having failed to reach any reasonable settlement through dialogue the Confederation in its last National Council meeting was constrained to take decision for a one day token strike on 12th December, 2012 in pursuance of the 15 point charter of demands. We send herewith a copy of the Explanatory Note on these demands.
We once again request you to kindly intervene and persuade the Government to settle these issues.
Thanking you,
Yours faithfully,
K.K.N. Kutty
Secretary General
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