Dear Comrades,
WELL DONE COMRADES !
CONGRATULATIONS & RED SALUTE !!
CONFEDERATION
NATIONAL SECRETARIAT & NFPE FEDERAL SECRETARIAT CONGRATULATES ALL THE
CENTRAL GOVT. EMPLOYEES INCLUDING POSTAL, RMS & GRAMIN DAK SEWAKS EMPLOYEES
WHO MADE THE beginning of the TWO DAYS STRIKE A
MARVELLOUS AND THUNDERING SUCCESS.
THE
HISTORIC 48 HOURS NATION WIDE STRIKE COMMENCED AT 00:00 HRS ON 12.02.2014
13
LAKHS EMPLOYEES INCLUDING 5 LAKHS POSTAL
EMPLOYEES JOINED THE BIGGEST STRIKE OF CENTRAL GOVT. EMPLOYEES
AFTER 1968 ON CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES COMMON DEMANDS.
FUNCTIONING
OF ALL CENTRAL GOVT. OFFICES (OTHER THAN RAILWAYS & DEFENCE) COMPLETELY
PARALYSED AND CAME TO A STANDSTILL. 1,55,000
POST OFFICES AND RMS OFFICES INCLUDING BRANCH POST OFFICES CLOSED.
WARNING
AND THREAT OF VICTIMISATION BY THE GOVT COULD NOT DETER THE EMPLOYEES FROM
JOINING THE STRIKE.
PENT
UP DISCONTENTMENT AND ANGER OF THE EMPLOYEES BURST OUT LIKE A VOLCANO.
EVERYWHERE
ENTIRE EMPLOYEES ARE ON STRIKE AND IN MAJORITY OF THE STATES/CIRCLES AND
DEPARTMENTS IT IS ALMOST NEAR TOTAL.
UPA Government
is not ready to CONCEDE ANY OF OUR DEMANDS, JUST AS IN
THE CASE OF BANK EMPLOYEES.
CONTINUE
THE STRIKE ON 13TH FEBRUARY ALSO.
CONFEDERATION
NATIONAL SECRETARIAT WILL MEET ON 18TH FEBRUARY AND DECIDE FUTURE COURSE OF
ACTION.
M.Krishnan
Secretary
General
Confederation
Central Govt. Employees and Workers
&
National
Federation of Postal Employees
Mob:
09447068125
Email:
mkrishnan6854@gmail.com
P R E S S S T A T E M E N T
Dated: 12th February, 2014
As
per the report received at the Central Head Quarters of the
Confederation, near about 13 lakhs Central Government Employees have
commenced the two day strike from Midnight of 11th Feb. 2014. For 48 hours. The Strike action will continue upto the midnight of 13th Feb.
2014. The functioning of the Government in the Postal, Income tax,
Civil Accounts, Ground water Board, Botanical Survey of India, and many
other organisations have been totally paralysed as in these departments,
the offices could not even be opened . In all other Departments of
the Government of India viz. the Printing and Stationery, Indian Audit
and Accounts Department, Atomic Energy Commission offices, Custom &
Central Excise, Defence Accounts, Indian Bureau of Mines, Geological
Survey of India, other Survey of India organisations and offices,
Census, the work has been paralysed.
The strike action became necessary due to the refusal of the Government to finalise the terms of reference of the proposed 7th CPC,
grant interim relief and merger of DA with pay, inclusion of Gramin
Dak Sewaks within the purview of the Pay Commission and scrapping of
NPS and the settlement of the 15 point charter of demands, The
employees are agitated over the action of the Government in getting the
PFRDA enacted in the Parliament with the support of the BJP which
contains the provision to bring in the existing employees and
pensioners also within its ambit.
During
the last 5 years, Government had been outsourcing various functions to
Contractors with the result presently about one third of the workforce
of the Government of India is contract labours getting only a pittance
of salary. Lakhs of posts in various Departments of the Government are
presently vacant due to the ban on recruitment aggravating the
unemployment situation in the country.
The
Government has virtually closed down all channels of discussions with
the employees by not convening the meetings of the JCM both at the
National and Departmental levels. There had been no avenue for the
employees to air their grievances and seek redressal. Even the awards
of the Board of Arbitration which were in favour of employees were
allowed to pend implementation for 15 years and are now being brought
before the Parliament for rejection invoking the sovereign authority of
the legislature.
The
incessant rise in the prices of essential commodities has eroded the
value of wages fixed in 2006 phenomenally. The price rise over the
years between 2006 and 2014 is estimated to be three times, whereas the
DA compensation presently is only 90%. It has become difficult for the
employees especially at the lower levels to meet even the basic
requirements of a family life. The agonising situation arising from the
apathy of the Government has given rise to anger and desperation, which
has been reflected in their total participation in the strike action.
The reports received from the States indicate that the
strike was total in Kerala, West Bengal, Assam, Tripura, Orissa,
Andhra Pradesh, Tamilnadu, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, ’Madhya Pradesh,
Maharashtra, J&K, HP, Rajasthan, U.P. and more than 90% in the rest
of the States.
The National Secretariat of the Confederation is scheduled to meet on 18th Feb.
to review and assess the response of the Government. If the Government
continues with its nugatory attitude, the Secretariat will be left with
no other alternative but to call upon the employees to go for
indefinite strike action before the general election is announced.
M.KRISHNAN
Secretary General