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NATIONAL FEDERATION OF POSTAL EMPLOYEES
1st Floor, North Avenue Post Office Building, New Delhi – 110001
PF-1(e)/15/2008 Dated 29TH December 2008.
To
All NFPE Office Bearers
All General Secretaries of NFPE Unions
All Circle Secretaries / Divisional / Branch Secretaries through Circle Secretaries.
Dear Comrades!
PREPARE WITH ALL SERIOUSNESS
The Strike Notice for commencing an Indefinite Strike from 20.01.2009 on a common charter of demands of CG Employees and also of Postal Employees will be served on the Government and the Department of Posts on 2.1.2009. There will be a massive rally of CG and Postal Employees in Jantar Mantar on 2nd January and at the end of the rally the leaders of Confederation will serve strike notice on the Cabinet Secretary and the NFPE serve notice to the Secretary Department of Posts.
There will be two charters of demands. One related to pay commission and common CG Employees pending for long in the JCM National Council. The other will be the Charter of Demands of regular and GDS as finalized by the All India Convention of NFPE Unions held at Guntur on 29th November 2008.
At Circle level also a mass rally is to be organized on 5th or 6th January [according to convenience of circles] and the copy of the Strike Notice served by the All India Organization should be served on the Chief Postmaster General. [Copy of Strike Notice is enclosed]. Demonstrations at divisional level also are to be organized all over the country.
Circle Unions are requested to organize division / branch wise strike preparatory meetings to be addressed by Circle Union Office bearers. The campaign material available in our websites may be used for enlightening the masses by our speakers in those meetings. All Circle and Divisional leaders are requested to appraise the CHQ / NFPE on the level of preparations made and the response of membership through telephone calls or emails. The rank and file is requested to follow our websites for any updates on day to day basis regarding strike developments.
ACTION INEVITABLE
Elections are round the corner. Once the Election Commission announces General Elections Notification, then the code of conduct will come into play. No demands could be negotiated and no struggle could be organized. As we know that the pay commission related demands are all already placed before the Standing Committee of JCM National Council but not at all considered before accepting recommendations of pay commission for implementation. The absence of merger of DA with basic pay in future at any point of time would be hard hitting our real wages after five years or so. Unless we could ensure a minimum of 40% fixation of pay for all sections of employees, the adverse impact of denial of merger of DA with pay in future cannot be offset. Similar is the importance of minimum wages of a Group D which should have been 10,000. Unless we raise these issues now through a strike notice and prepare for an industrial action, all the issues related to pay commission would be finished for the next 10 or 12 years.
The Postal Charter of Demands contains many important and basic issues like cadre restructuring and exemption from Screening Committee etc. The Department of Posts unfortunately ignores our demands and issues without our constantly agitating now and then. For example the Sectional Charter of Demands submitted by NFPE - FNPO Federations and Unions jointly on 15.02.2008 did not even evince a response of acknowledgement from the Department, leave alone negotiations and settlement. Without struggle there appears to be no alternative. These are the compulsions for strike notice.
GDS ISSUES
The GDS issues also though submitted by us before the Senior Officers Committee and the Committee exhibited positive response on many issues and that the Department has assured in writing that adequate opportunity would be provided for presenting our case, we cannot afford to take any risk that all the modifications would be incorporated and that all the negative recommendations would be rejected. We may not be able to organize a separate strike action for GDS once again. So the strike charter of Confederation as well as the NFPE includes the GDS issues also.
UNITY EFFORTS
NFPE has discussed with the Secretary General FNPO for launching the strike action unitedly under the banner of Postal JCA for dealing with the sectional issues of postal employees. An organizational decision by FNPO is awaited. NFPE has written to General Secretary GDS Union requesting for joint action for launching 20th January Strike action and for serving the strike notice on 2nd January either jointly with NFPE affiliates or separately. A joint platform will be to the interest of all employees including GDS.
MOBILISATION IS THE KEY TO SUCCESS
NFPE and Confederation have taken the decision for organizing the strike in right earnest and convened State level Conventions as well as Regional level strike campaign meetings to be attended by All India leaders. Detailed Campaign Materials of Common Charter and Postal Charter are already placed in the websites. A Core Committee is proposed to be set up consisting of leaders of Confederation in Delhi and the Secretary General NFPE, who will remain in the headquarter after the campaign, which will be responsible for taking instant decisions.
Circle and Divisional and Branch level leadership are to take the preparations very seriously and commence strike campaign and meetings. Without sound preparations there cannot be any meaningful negotiations with the Government. Therefore the rank and file leadership is requested to take the preparations very seriously and prepare for a massive strike action irrespective of the fact that we have gone on two days strike action in solidarity with the GDS Union. This is our historical task.
NFPE is confident that the rank and file will gigantically rise up to the occasion once again and will play its due role in winning the demands of the CG and Postal Employees.
With regards,
Yours faithfully,
Sd/-
[K.Ragavendran]
Secretary General
COPY OF STRIKE NOTICE
NATIONAL FEDERATION OF POSTAL EMPLOYEES
1st Floor, North Avenue Post Office Building, New Delhi – 110001
PF-12(e)/2009 Dated 2nd January 2009
To
The Director General
Department of Posts
Dak Bhawan
New Delhi – 110001
NOTICE
Sir / Madam,
In accordance with the provisions of Sub Section (1) of Section 22 of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, we hereby notify that all the Postal / RMS / MMS / Administrative / Postal Accounts Employees will go on indefinite strike from 20.01.2009. The demands for acceptance on which the employees embark upon this Indefinite Strike are detailed in the Charter of Demands enclosed.
Sd/-
[K.Ragavendran]
Secretary General - NFPE
Sd/- Sd/-
[K.V.Sridharan] [Ishwar Singh Dabas]
General Secretary General Secretary
AIPEU Group 'C' AIPEU Postmen & Gr. 'D'
Sd/- Sd/-
Giriraj Singh P.Suresh
General Secretary General Secretary
AI RMS&MMS EU Group 'C' AI RMS&MMS EU Mailguards & Gr.'D'
Sd/- Sd/-
[S.P.Mukherjee] [P.Rajanayagam]
General Secretary General Secretary
AIPAOEU Group C & D AIPAEA
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K.Ragavendran
Secretary General NFPE
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