Dear Comrades,
CONFEDERATION CIRCULAR NO. 15 DATED 03RD SEPTEMBER,
Conf/
15/2012 Dated: 3rd September, 2012
Dear Comrade,
The
Word Federation of Trade Unions was founded in a Conference held at Paris
from 3rd to 8th October, 1945. It had its
deepest crisis when the socialist system collapsed in the erstwhile USSR. The
15th Congress of WFTU was held at Havana in 2005. The
said Congress helped to revive the active functioning of the WFTU. The
16th Congress was held at Athens, Greece in April, 2011. It
was a grand success and paved way for the WFTU to become a potent organisation
to lead the international working class to militant struggles against the
Globalisation agenda of capitalist system. One of the decisions
taken at the Congress was to observe the international day of action every year
to unite the working class throughout the world for action on certain important
contemporary class issues. Ist April, 2009 was thus observed as
international day of action to raise the issue of workers right and against
exploitation. On 7thSeptember, 2010, when the Indian
Working Class organised the greatest ever strike action under the auspices of
the united platform of all Central Trade Unions and Federations, the day was
observed by WFTU with the slogan that "We will not pay for their
crisis". It was in the background when most of the capitalist
countries decided to bail out the giant corporate houses from crisis by tax
payers' money. In 2011 the day was observed on 3rd October i.e.
the foundation day of WFTU and the slogan raised was "Social Security for
all, collective bargaining rights, trade union rights and democratic rights, 35
hours of work and 5 day week, better wages etc.
The
Confederation had been carrying out this directive of the WFTU being an
affiliate of the TUI, public Services. In the face of the pension
fund privatisation and the PFRDA Bill, the slogan for social security for all
raised by the WFTU received appreciation from the rank and file of our
membership. The other issues raised by the WFTU were also equally relevant and
important for the Government employees of India for they are still denied the
right to collective bargaining and other trade union rights. India,
we should remember, is one of the countries of the world, which has still not
ratified many of the ILO conventions.
This
year, the WFTU has decided to raise the following five issues which are of
utmost and essential pre requisite for human existence. i.e.
Food, Water, health, Education and Housing for all. Both the CITU and AITUC
which are affiliated to the WFTU will be organising this programme throughout
our country on 3rd October, 2012. As an affiliate of
TUI Public Services, it is our bounden duty that we observe 3rd October,
2012, with appropriate programmes so that the message reaches all our members.
The
State Committees may chalk out either independent programme of action or hold
joint programmes in consultation and association with the State Units of the
All India State Government employees Federations, CITU or AITUC.
With
greetings,
Yours fraternally,
K.K.N. Kutty
Secretary General.
