NFPE CIRCULAR
National Federation of Postal Employees
1st Floor North
Avenue Post Office Building, New Delhi-110 001
Phone: 011.23092771 e-mail: nfpehq@gmail.com
No.
PF – 01(a)/2018)
Dated: 07th May 2018
NFPE CIRCULAR
To
All General
Secretaries / NFPE Office Bearers
All Circle /Divisional and Branch
Secretaries of NFPE Unions
Dear Comrades,
As could be seen from their website,
the All India Gramin Dak Sewak Union,
led by Com. S.S. Mhadeviaiah, have decided to organise an Indefinite Strike
action from 22nd May, 2018 against the undue delay in taking the
decision over the Kamlesh Chandra Committee Report on Wage Revision of the GDS Employees. No doubt the delay is absolutely inexplicable
especially in the background that the Finance Ministry had assigned its seal of
approval long time back and consequently the Department of Posts had prepared
the Cabinet Note and submitted to the Government. In the face of the fact that the Kamlesh
Chandra Committee took just about a year to finalise the report, it is strange
that the Government had taken more than 17months to study the same. The GDS Employees
Association (an affiliate of the FNPO), perhaps on being approached by the AIGDSU
have also agreed to organise similar action from 22nd May, 2018.
The non settlement of the Wage Revision
of the GDS employees is the most significant and important issue that was
subjected to discussion at length at the
recently held All India Conference of the All India Postal Employees
Union-GDS (NFPE) at Allahabad. The
Conference had directed the General Secretary Com. Panduranga Rao to organise Indefinite
Strike action as the Conference came to the inevitable conclusion that the
NDA Government would not settle the issue, without a serious struggle
programme. NFPE with whom the said Union
is associated was in full agreement with the conclusion of the Conference and
had endorsed the same as that was the most appropriate and timely decision,
which alone was the pathway open to the employees who believe in struggles to
win the demands.
The sudden decision of the AIGDSU to
go in for an Indefinite Strike from 22nd May,2018 without causing
even a discussion with the NFPE was
indeed a bolt from the blue, totally unexpected in the background of the
election process in the Karnataka State and the consequent election Code of Conduct
coming into existence, which eventually makes it difficult for the Government
to take decision till the announcement of the election results, which is likely to be only on 18th May,
2018.
Most of the Federal Sectt. members
of NFPE were at Kerala in connection with the joint Circle Conference of the
NFPE Unions of that State. The available members of the Federal Sectt.
met there to discuss the situation that has arisen due to the sudden
announcement of the strike by the AIGDSU.
In the meantime, the General Secretary of the All India Postal employees
Union-GDS, Com. Panduranga Rao got in
touch with his colleagues and they arrived at the unanimous decision to synchronise the strike action in the larger
interest of the GDS employees. The
Sectt. meeting ,therefore, came to the conclusion that the Government must be
confronted unitedly irrespective of the hegemonic attitude of the AIGDSU and the hurdle of the election Code. Accordingly, the All India Postal Employees
Union-GDS has served the strike notice. The strike shall commence on 22nd
May, 2018. NFPE calls upon all its
affiliated Unions to do everything possible and needful to make the strike a
grand success and compel the Modi Government to issue the requisite orders on wage
revision of the GDS employees. It must
be a fight for the finish and a beginning to the end of the anti- worker
attitude of the BJP Govt.
Constituents
of NFPE are advised that they should direct their members to organise a joint
mass demonstration at all work places on 10 may in preparation of the strike
action and from 22nd May, 2018 onwards to bring about compulsions on
the Government.
A strong opinion had emerged during
the discussions at the informal Federal Sectt. meeting held at Kerala that the NFPE must join the strike to make
the action militant and all pervasive,
which alone shall generate sanctions on
the Government . It was, therefore,
decided that the NFPE will convene an emergent Federal Sectt. meeting after
prior consultations with all the General Secretaries of the affiliates to
consider this suggestion and take
appropriate decision. In the meantime, the General Secretaries may kindly hold
discussions with their colleagues.
Though NFPE
has already scheduled Federal Secretariat Meeting on 16th May, 2018
to discuss all the serious issues including implementation of GDS Committee
Report and Membership verification.
A PJCA meeting has also been
scheduled to be held in the after noon of the same date i.e. 16th
May, 2018. A serious decision for serious agitational programme may be taken
under the banner of PJCA.
We are happy to inform you that the
Joint Circle Conference of Kerala which was in session at Tirur has already
decided to organise the strike under the auspices of the Co-ordination
Committee of Postal Unions, NFPE Kerala and every Postal Employee of Kerala will participate in the strike action commencing on 22nd
May, 2018.
With greetings and with a request to
await our next communication in the matter and prepare the membership for the
eventual strike action on 22nd May, 2018 if Modi Government persist
with its anti employee attitude.
With revolutionary Greeting
Comradely Yours
(R.N
Parashar)
Secretary General
NFPE
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