Central Government Employees and Trade Union Strike on 2nd September 2015 – Confederation reports on non-friendly nature of Govt towards Central Government Employees
On 26th May, The
day Modi Government at the Centre completed one year in office, Workers
National Assembly at the Mavlankar Auditorium in the National Capital,
New Delhi, in one voice condemned BJP-led NDA Government’s anti worker,
anti-peasants, anti-people and pro-corporate, pro-MNC one year’s rule
and declared country wide united
protests and resistance through General Strike on 2nd September 2015
against these policies and to pursue 12 points charter of demands.
The unanimous declaration of the National Convention, organized by All the eleven Central Trade Unions and National Federations of Employees of all sectors and services condemned the Modi Government for bringing sweeping changes in the Land Acquisition
Act permitting forcible acquisition of land from the farmers and
drastically curbing farmer’s right to land and agricultural worker’s
right to livelihood, bringing sweeping changes in the labour laws in
favour of the employers, attack on the existing social securities like EPF, ESI benefits, cutting budgetary allocations to scheme which benefit the poor like MNREGA, dismantling of the Public Distribution System,
disinvesting profit making public sector undertakings, Not implementing
tripartite decisions of the successive Indian Labour Conferences
(ILCs), Ignoring the 10 point demands submitted earlier by the Central Trade Union pending since UPA Government etc.
The Central Government Employees
are the worst sufferers due to the policy offensives of the Government.
No DA Merger, No Interim Relief, No retrospective date of effect to 7th
CPC from 01.01.2014 as demanded by JCM Staff Side, refusal to include
Gramin Dak Sewaks under 7th CPC, denial of revision of wages and
regularization of casual labourers, non implementation of Cadre
Restructuring agreement signed by Postal department and Postal
federations, 5% condition on Compassionate appointment, non revision of
bonus ceiling, non implementation of arbitration awards, non convening
of JCM National Council are the one year balance sheet of the Modi
Government in the Central Government employees sector. Over and above
this, policy offensives like Task Force Committee Report on Postal
Corporatisation, Bibek Debroy Committee Report on Railway privatisation,
corporatisation of the 41 Ordinance factories in the defence sector,
move to close down printing, stationery and publication department and
Medical store depots, non filling up of vacancies, downsizing,
outsourcing, contractrisation, privatisation, are also being implemented in an aggressive manner.
The atrocious attack on the working people of the country including Central Government employees
should be combated resolutely. The anti worker character of the neo
liberal policies and the capitalist class interest behind these policies
must be thoroughly exposed. It is to resist and repulse these attacks
on the working class that the united trade union movement gave a call for a country wide general strike on 2nd September 2015.
From 1991 onwards, when the Congress government started implementing these policies, Confederation of Central Government Employees
& Workers has been opposing it and had joined the main stream of
the working class in resisting the onslaught of imperialist
globalization policies. Confederation National Executive had decided to
join the one day strike on 2nd September 2015.
This
strike must act as a strong warning to the BJP-led Government that the
working class of the country, which has a great history of struggles and
sacrifices, is not going to let these attacks pass. We call upon the
entire Central Government employees to join the strike en-masse and make it a grand success.