Dear Comrade Mahadevaiah – Greetings. Our Indefinite Strike has ended with the assurance of the Department of Posts that the modifications sought for by us would be sympathetically considered by the Gopinath Committee and that the Staff side would be provided with adequate opportunity for placing our view points before the final proposals are sent to Cabinet for acceptance.
Our experience before the Senior Officers Committee was that the Committee exhibited positive approach on many issues. The Report of the Committee is likely to be submitted before the end of this month.
While we will know exactly the amount of modifications the Committee and the Department will be agreeing to make in the Report of Nataraja Murti Committee, it would be better to be vigilant and be prepared. If the positive approach of the Committee of Senior Officers and the assurance of the Department are translated into practice it will be welcome and if not there would be need to struggle once again but with enough preparations. With the experience of a strike behind us, we shall be better placed if there is total preparation and unity between all sections of postal employees and the GDS.
As you already know, the NFPE has finalised a Sectional Charter of Demands of GDS and regular postal employees as per the decision of Guntur NFPE All India Convention and the Confederation has also finalised a common Charter of Demands , as per the decision of its National Executive, which too contain the basic demand of the GDS. The decision of the Confederation and the NFPE is that we will mobilise a big rally in Jantar Mantar on 2.1.2009 and submit Notice for Indefinite Strike from 20.01.2009. NFPE also will be submitting a Notice for Indefinite Strike to the Department of Posts after the rally on 2.1.2009. Intensive strike campaign programmes from the platform of Confederation of Central Government Employees as also from the Federation is circulated through the Circular of NFPE. I am enclosing a copy of the same circular along with this email as an attachment for your kind information.
We are taking efforts for converting this programme as a joint programme of Postal JCA of NFPE and FNPO. Things would be clear before 2nd January 2009.
We would request you to consider the following:
- GDS Union also submitting a strike notice along with the NFPE and its affiliated Unions on 2.1.2009 after the Jantar Mantar Rally either separately or jointly.
- GDS Union may consider preparing a Sectional Charter as like all unions and associations that was suggested to you in the month of February 2008 itself when the NFPE and FNPO submitted their charter of demands on 15.02.2008. Such a sectional charter may also form part of the demand charter for strike even though the basic issue of Status, Pension, Modifications of Nataraja Murti Committee and improvement thereon stand incorporated in both the Charter of demands of Confederation and NFPE. We can make any change in the demands charter with regard to GDS issues as warranted and as the GDS Union want before submission of Strike Notice.
- GDS Union's CHQ Office bearers may also join in all the State Capitals and Regional Centres where the Strike Campaign State Conventions and Meetings are being organised. You may kindly intimate the name of the CHQ leader attending these meetings for communicating to the respective circles. [The details of campaign meetings are available in the NFPE Circular attached with this email].
Our united approach will always bring better results.
With regards,
Comradely Yours,
K.Ragavendran
Secretary General
26th December 2008
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K.Ragavendran
Secretary General NFPE
1 comment:
Dear Com.
Pl.accept my heartiest congrats for your measured approach. This is the need of the hour. Being cool and calm despite provocation with larger interest of the movement in mind, as displayed by you, is commandable. Under your stewardship, the movement will definitely would march on steadily. I hope wisdom prevails with those who are bent upon creating a permanant wedge between GDS AND DEPTL. Employees.
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