Dear Comrades,
NATIONAL FEDERATION OF POSTAL EMPLOYEES
1ST FLOOR NORTH AVENUE POST OFFICE BUILDING
NEW DELHI-110001
No. PF-01(e)/2012 DATED 31.07.2012
CIRCULAR
To,
All General Secretaries / NFPE office bearers /All All India office bearers of affiliated unions all Circle/Divisional /Branch Secretaries
MORE THAN 20,000 MARCH IN THE CONFEDERATION RALLY
At
the call of the Confederation of CG Employees and Workers, more than
20,000 employees and workers of various organisations of Central
Government marched in the rally before Parliament on 26th July,
2012. Thousands and thousands of employees surged into the national
capital to take part in the March to Parliament demanding implementation
of 15 Point Charter of Demands including immediate formation of 7th CPC
to revise the wage structure of Central Government Employees once in
five years with the revision with effect from 1.1.2011; Merger of 50% DA
with the basic pay for all purposes as was done from 1.1.2004 based on
the recommendations of IV CPC; Revision of wages of three lakhs of
Grameen Dak Sevaks of Postal Department through the 7th CPC
itself; Regularisation of both GDS and Casual labourers through
formation of appropriate schemes of regularisation; Ending the
discrimination in grant of Compassionate appointments between Railways
and other CG Departments; Scrapping PFRDA Bill; Grant of five promotions
in the career of an employee etc.
The
response to the call of the Confederation for the rally before
Parliament was so intense that employees from all States and belonging
to all affiliates of Confederation in thousands reached the Jantar
Mantar venue of the beginning point of the rally even before the
scheduled time of start of the Rally. Later with all leaders of
Confederation and its affiliates leading the rally under the banner of
Confederation at the head of the procession, the rally reached the
designated spot.
Veteran
Parliament Members Comrade Basudev Acharya; Comrade Tapen Sen and AITUC
All India Leader Comrade Amarjit Kaur addressed the rally. The rally
was presided over by the President Comrade S.K.Vyas. The rally was
addressed by Comrades K.Ragavendran Working President of Confederation;
M.Krishnan Secretary General of NFPE; and several other leaders.
Comrade
K.K.N.Kutty Secretary General of Confederation declared the decisions
of the national secretariat that if within three months the demands are
not accepted by the Central Government and 7th CPC not constituted, the entirety of CG Employees under the Confederation will launch an all India Strike on 12th December,
2012. Other decisions of the Secretariat about holding of State level
Conventions and District level Conventions as well as holding of Mass
Dharnas and Mass Rallies to Raj Bhawans /Chief Ministers etc to submit
memorandum before the Strike etc were also pointed out by the Secretary
General in his address.
A
Memorandum to the Honourable Prime Minister of India with the
explanatory note on all the items of 15 Points of Charter will be
submitted to the Prime Minister by the delegation of the Confederation
along with the senior Parliamentarian Comrade Basudev Acharya. The full
text of the Memorandum can be obtained from the website of
Confederation.
ROLE OF NFPE ORGANISATIONS IN CONFEDERATION STRIKE CALL
NFPE
organisations from several circles including from the distant circles
like Kerala, Tamilnadu, Andhra, Assam and NE, West Bengal, Maharashtra
as well as from many other circles surrounding Delhi like U.P, Bihar,
Jharkhand, Haryana, Punjab, Himachal, Rajasthan, Gujarat, M.P etc
representing all affiliates of NFPE constituted the major contingent of
the Confederation rally. The participation of thousands of regular
employees as well as Grameen Dak Sewaks under the banner of the newly
formed GDS [NFPE] Union including casual workers under the banner of
Casual Labour Union ensured the role of NFPE as a major constituent of
Confederation. NFPE congratulates all the leaders who took serious
attempts to mobilize our rank and file in large numbers to the rally and
calls upon the leadership at all levels to take up this task of
organising for the intended strike on 12thDecember very
seriously, keeping in mind that the role of the Postal Organisations is
very vital in converting the call of the Confederation a huge success.
NFPE All India Convention on 26th July
After the rally was over, a national convention of NFPE was organised at Dr.Ambedkar Bhawan in the afternoon of 26th July.
The All India Convention was presided over by Comrade K.V.Sridharan
Ex-General Secretary P3 and addressed by large number of leaders
including the General Secretaries of different affiliates of NFPE and
other All India leaders. The Convention was addressed by Comrades
M.Krishnan [Secretary General]; B.G.Tamhankar [Ex-President NFPE];
R.Sivanarayana [General Secretary P3]; Ishwar Singh Dabas [General
Secretary P4]; Giriraj Singh [General Secretary R3]; P.Suresh [General
Secretary R4]; Pranab Bhattacharjee [General Secretary Admn];
Sathyanarayana [General Secretary Postal Accounts]; P.Panduranga Rao
[General Secretary GDS (NFPE)]; Appanraj [General Secretary SBCO]; Mohan
[General Secretary Casual labour]; Com.K.K.Sharma Vice President of
NFPE R.N.Parashar [Assistant Secretary General NFPE]; R.Seethalakshmi
[Assistant Secretary General]; S.Ragupathy [Assistant Secretary General
NFPE]; S.K.humayun [President P4]; Samir Bardhan [President R3]; Bijoy
Gopal Sur [President GDS(NFPE)]; Y.Nagabhushanum [Working President
Casual Labour]; Balwinder Singh [Finance Secretary P3]; C.P.Shobana
[Chair Person Confederation Mahila Committee]; Amaresh Thakur
[Ex-General Secretary Postal Accounts] and others.
The
All India Convention endorsed the decisions of the Confederation to
launch a strike on 12.12.2012 to win the 15 Point Charter of Demands and
called upon the entire rank and file of NFPE organizations to take all organizational efforts for the total success of the strike action. Various decisions to organize struggles.
GDS DHARNA ON 27.07.2012
A massive Dharna in which more than a thousand GDS employees and also from the regular employees organizations under the banner of the AIPEU GDS(NFPE) was held at Dr.Ambedkar Bhawan on 27th July,
2012. The Dharna was organised as per the decisions of the CWC of the
GDS [NFPE] union to focus attention on a 32 Point Charter of Demands
pertaining to GDS employees. The demands like 7th CPC going
into the issues of GDS instead of any formation of a separate committee
etc; grant of 50% DA with Basic Pay to GDS on par with the regular
employees; Departmentalization of GDS by evolving a scheme; Ending the
discrimination on Bonus Ceiling between the GDS and other employees; and
many other demands were given effective focus in the Dharna.
Comrade
Basudev Acharya senior Parliament Member addressed the Dharna and
assured all support inside the Parliament to the cause of GDS and
advised the leadership to prepare a comprehensive memorandum on the
important GDS problems and submit it to the Honourable Speaker of
Parliament. He assured that there will be serious follow up action by
him with the Speaker.
Comrade
R.N.Parashar Assistant Secretary General NFPE anchored the proceedings
of the Dharna. Comrade P.Panduranga Rao General Secretary GDS(NFPE)
elaborately spoke on all the demands of the GDS Charter and called upon
the GDS all over the country to get prepared for greater movement and
struggle under the guidance of the mighty National Federation of Postal
Employees. Comrade M.Krishnan [Secretary General NFPE] who declared that
the NFPE will not rest until the basic problems of GDS are fully sorted
out and that there will be greater struggles of united postal
employees’ movement in this regard in future. Comrade S.K.Vyas
[President Confederation] assured total support to the GDS(NFPE) Union
and assured that the Confederation will seriously take up the issue to
include the GDS wage review by the 7th CPC itself. Comrade
K.Ragavendran [Working President Confederation] traced the developments
like disruption of a united joint movement of Postal Employees that
contributed to the failures of major issues of GDS including permitting
the Nataraja Murthy Committee and the consequential negative
recommendations implemented on the GDS. Comrade K.V.Sridharan
[Ex-General Secretary P3] spoke in detail about the ways and means of
departmentalization of GDS. Comrade K.P.Rajagopal [Secretary General
ITEF]; VAN Namboodiri President BSNLEU; R.Sivannarayana [General
Secretary P3]; Ishwar Singh Dabas [General Secretary P4]; Giriraj Singh
[General Secretary R3]; Pranab Bhattacharjee [General Secretary Admn];
Sathyanarayana [General Secretary Postal Accounts]; Bijoy Gopal Sur
[President GDS (NFPE)]; Y.Nagabhushanam [Working President Casual
labour] and other leaders spoke extending total support to the cause of
GDS.
BUILD STRONGER THE GDS (NFPE) UNION:
All
appreciated the role of the newly formed GDS (NFPE) Union in taking up
the agitational path as soon as its formation. The participation of all
regular employees’organisations
in the GDS Dharna enthused all the GDS participants. NFPE Headquarters
stresses once again that in line with the decision of the NFPE
Secretariat to accord ‘Associate Membership’ to the AIPEU GDS(NFPE)
Union and the Central Working Committee Meetings of both P3 and P4
resolving to strengthen the newly formed GDS (NFPE) Union at all circles
by extending total cooperation and help in building that union, all
should on priority basis take up this task also to complete the
formation of this GDS (NFPE) Union within a period of two months to
facilitate emerging as the ‘First Union’ in the Postal Services.
ONE DAY STRIKE DATED 12.12.12
Confederation
of Central Government Employees and workers has decided for one day
strike on 12.12.12 and NFPE in its Federal Secretariat has endorsed the
decision of confederation.
Campaign programme for preparation of strike from Confederation and NFPE will be sent separately.
All are requested to start preparations for strike.
FINANCIAL POSITION OF NFPE
Comrades,
Financial position of
NFPE is going to be weak day by day as most of the branches are not
remitting due quota and subscription of Postal Crusader. AllGeneral Secretaries All India Office bearers, Circle, Divisional and Branch Secretariesare
requested to cause full remittance of quota and Postal Crusader
subscription so that NFPE HQ may function effectively and efficiently to
serve the membership to the maximum extent.
With revolutionary greetings
Yours Comradely,
(M. Krishnan) Secretary General
