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Thursday, October 2, 2008

14 DAYS STRIKE PERIOD TO BE TREATED AS LEAVE

HONOURABLE MOC & IT RAJA ORDERS  SANCTION OF
LEAVE FOR 14 DAYS STRIKE
 
14 DAYS INDEFINITE STRIKE HELD IN YEAR 2000
 
MINISTER'S ORDER A BREAKTHROUGH
 
Dear Comrades!
 
Honourable Minister of Communications & IT Shri.A.Raja has ordered that the 14 Days Strike of Postal Employees in the year 2000 be treated as leave. Newspapers in Tamilnadu have quoted reference to say that Honourable MOC & IT has accepted the demand of the unions and ordered to sanction leave against the 14 days strike period and to pay wages for the said period. NFPE has verified to confirm the press news and found that indeed such a direction has come from the Honourable Minister in the Directorate. Orders are yet to be issued by the Postal Directorate.
 
The action of the Honourable Minister is a breakthrough and a coup in the system of things in place. The Strike was declared illegal at that time and Honourable Delhi Court directed to use ESMA. After the Strike when the Postal JCA demanded treatment of period of strike as leave it was not accepted by the group of secretaries and also by the group of Ministers. Later accepting the request of the then Postal JCA Honourable Minister of Communications & IT Shri.Ram Vilas Paswan tried to sanction leave against the strike period. But the DOPT did not permit. The issue is now handled by the present Honourable Minister of Communications & IT Shri. A.Raja and despite system hurdles ordered by him to be treated as leave. Therefore the decision of the Honourable Minister is to be considered as a coup and a welcome decision by the unions.
 
NFPE thanks the Honourable Minister for his persistence and conversion of his public announcement into an order and hopes that the system would adjust itself to the order of the Honourable Minister and issue appropriate orders for leave  to permit such of those employees who want to convert the period of strike into leave. This will be of enormous help for those employees who are retired but became ineligible for pension as they did not complete 9 years 9 months mandatory regular service for getting pension in some circles. WE WELCOME THE MINISTER'S ORDERS.

--
K.Ragavendran
Secretary General NFPE

3 comments:

sree said...

Sir,

thats really wonderful to see the news of treating the strike period as leave.

that indeed was a historical strike during 2000.

i still remember those early days of my service ( I had joined service in 1996 at 20 years of age as SA) wherein we were guided by the all india union for an indeifinte strike, which was supported unanimously by one and all.

i was really amazed by the unity of the members and the support they all had extended in making the strike a glorious and historical one.

though our demands were partially settled, there was some pinch of some sort regarding treating the strike as illegal and the Honourable High Court of Delhi directions to use ESMA act.

now presuming that this issue has been settled by treating the period as eleigible leave, i feel great sense of satisfaction that the strike is not treated as illegal.

when sri Antony, the Defence Minister has stood so strong on the side of the defence in matters relating to implementation of 6th pc, we were really jeolous of the staff for whom he had represented.

now that the Honourable Minister of Communication & IT had stood in this issue, we are really happy for this persistence and persuation. we hope similar persuations from him with regard to some problems of sixth pay commission pertaining to our ministry would go a long way

lot of thanks, which words cant express to the All India Union also to have placed this demand in the charter of demands when ever any strike notice was served after 2000 asking for granting leave during the strike period.

i personally suggest that a letter of thanks on behalf of our assocation may be placed to the Honorable Minister in this regard, if the bye laws of the union permits for the same. this would also help in maintaining good rapport and also enable us to go with mutual trust and confidence in each other and help in improving the bilateral relations

just excuse me, if i have taken lot of your time, but indeed, I wanted to share my feelings regarding this subject

apart from the monetary/service benefit, this is a achievement of our rights, i.e Right to strike

hail to the minister

hail hail to the union

srikanth goud
hyderabad sorting division

Unknown said...

Dear sir,
Thanx for your information and this is a victory of the postal workers.strugle is a continuous process its not an exam to end up with a result.

shibsankar said...

the 14 days strike in 2000 was organised by jca of NFPE & FNPO.Now the decesion of the Govt to treet the strike period as leave tantamount to deny that there was no srtike durinig 2000. In my openion, the 'leardership'of our organisations should not submit any leave application to uphold the glory of that strike.
SHIBSANKAR ROY