CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES V/S GLOBALISATION POLICIES
More than ten lakhs
Central Government employees including Postal employees are determined to go on
nationwide strike on 12th December
2012. Strike notice to Cabinet Secretary and Secretary, Department of Posts has
already been served on 19th November
2012. The 26th July
Parliament march in which more than 20000 employees participated, itself is a
manifestation of the growing discontentment among the Central Government employees.
There was about 36 lakhs
Central Government employees prior to 1990. The downsizing policy implemented
by the Central Government during the last two decades has resulted in reduction
of about 8 lakh posts and the total number of employees has come down to 28
lakhs. More and more Government functions are being outsourced.
Contractorisation and privatization has become the order of the day. More than
four lakhs posts are lying vacant in Central Services. Workload has increased
but filling up of vacant posts and creation of new posts are not taking place.
Prices of essential
commodities are shooting up. Deregulation of petroleum prices, withdrawal of
subsidies including Kerosene and cooking gas, dismantling of public
distribution system, futures trading, hoarding by black marketers etc. has
resulted in unprecedented price rise especially of essential commodities. As a
result large scale erosion has taken place in the real wages of the employees
and workers, DA granted is not in commensurate with the price rise. In these
circumstances, appointment of 7th Central
Pay Commission should not be delayed any further. The three lakhs Gramin Dak
Sevaks of the Postal department should also be brought under the purview of the
Pay Commission. The demands for departmentalization of GDS and extension of all
the benefits of the departmental employees should be considered favourably by
the Government.
The Contributory Pension
scheme is nothing but a farce. Under this scheme there is no guarantee that an
employees will get minimum eligible pension at the time of retirement.
Everything depends upon the vagaries of share market. During the last economic recession
which started from USA, pension funds had collapsed and lakhs and lakhs of
people are forced to live without any social security or pension.
Merger of DA with pay,
removal of restrictions on compassionate appointments, revision of wages and
regularization of casual labourers, removal of bonus ceiling and discrimination
in bonus to GDS, non functioning of JCM forums, non-implementations of
Arbitration awards, Revision of OTA and Night duty allowance, grant of five
promotions, Right to Strike and trade union victimizations are the other
demands raised by the confederation of Central Government Employees and workers
in the strike charter.
Intensive campaign is going on in all
states and no doubt, the 12th December
strike will be one of most successfull strike of the Central Government
employees.
NFPE calls upon the
Postal & RMS employees including Gramin Dak Sewaks to join the strike
en-masse and make the strike a historic success.
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