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Observe WFTU Day on 3rd October with mass participation

30 Sunday Sep 2012

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WFTU - Action Day- 3rd October

World federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) was formed on 3rd October 1945, immediately after the conclusion of the II World War. It was an important step in the consolidation of the work force all over the world. The workers were able to achieve many during the post-war period and WFTU was in the forefront of the struggles of the world working class.

After the collapse of the USSR, some organisations left it and WFTU became comparatively weak. But after the Havana Conference in 2008 and the Greece Conference in 2010, many organisations rejoined WFTU and the old glory was brought back.

WFTU as usual has called for observing its birthday, 3rd October this year also. The theme for this year is International Action Day on Food, Water, Medicine, Books and Housing. It is the right of every human being to get these essential things for his growth and development. But in the present situation, these are denied to a large section of the people, the workers, all over the world. WFTU calls upon all to fight for these rights to whom they have been denied.

BSNL Employees Union in it’s All India Conference at Ludhiana has called upon all the BSNL workers to observe the International Action Day on 3rd October 2012 in an effective way participating in the rallies, demonstrations, meetings and other activities being organised on that day.

WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE!

 

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Greetings to the Peoples Republic of China!

30 Sunday Sep 2012

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Peoples Republic of China was formed on 1st October 1949. Despite all obstacles and opposition from the capitalist countries, problem of high population and the comparatively poor ,condition, it has grown tremendously during the last 6 decades and is the 2nd economic power in the world after US. It is stated that it will surpass US by the 2020s.

The Socialist China has shown to the world its determination to improve the condition of its people and its dedication to the Socialist concept.  China became Republic after one year of Independence of India, But China has grown faster due to its socialistic method of growth.

India and China are two biggest republics and neighbours and have to move forward in co-ordination and co-existence.

My Greetings to the Peoples republic of China and its people!

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Supreme Court judgment on Auction – No exoneration for Govt.

30 Sunday Sep 2012

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The corporate media and the government is on high and are propagating that the recent judgment of the Supreme Court that ‘ auction is not the only method for allocation of natural resources’, exonerate the governent from the corruption cases and wrong doing on the part of the government.

Nothing is more untruthful.The court has only takena position that the the government has the right to decide the policy. That does not mean that it can adopt any wrong method. In fact the Supreme Court has not out-ruled its earlier decision of the 2G spectrum case.

My strong opinion is that the government should stop selling the natural resources to private companies. The resources can only be allotted to government companies to explore and use them for the benefit of the people.

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Hearty Greetings on 1st October – BSNL Day!

30 Sunday Sep 2012

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Save BSNL - BSNL Day

Tomorrow, 1st October 2012, is the 12th Birth Anniversary day of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), the Public Sector Telecom company fully owned by the Government of India. BSNL was formed on 1st October 2000 by converting the service portion of the Department of Telecom (DOT). The staff unions/federations opposed and went on agitation including the strike. Some of the federations / Unions agreed for corporatisation  on certain assurances. This was an unpardonable betrayal of the interests of the workers and the BSNL was formed.

The last twelve years have seen the high growth of BSNL till 2007 and the decline of the market share afterwards. High profits in the early years were followed by heavy loss in the last three years. The main reasons are the anti-worker PSU policy of the central government and its neo-liberal policies, Ineffective Management and to a certain extent the casual attitude of the workers. All these have got to be changed.

Sustained struggle to change the wrong policy of the government, strong and continued pressure on the management for better governance and maximum effort to change the mindset of the workers have to be done. The implementation of the ‘Customer Delight Year’ in an effective manner will do a lot to improve the services. Unnecessary expenditure and corruption to be firmly dealt with.

Let us continue our struggle to Save BSNL and its workers. Best Wishes and Greetings to all on the eve of BSNL Day!

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AIC delegate Com. Y.Narayana passed away

30 Sunday Sep 2012

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It is with great sorrow that I am to inform that Shri Y.Narayana, TM, Bidar, Karnataka, a delegate to the All India conference, suffered severe chest pain and breath congestion while he was travelling to Bidar returing from Ludhiana after the train was running between Mathura and Agra. He was immediately taken to the Hospital at Agra, but was declared dead yesterday afternoon. His comrades are still at the hospital where the postmortem is being conducted. His body will be taken back to Bidar at the earliest. I had contacted the CMD and other officers and is trying to make all arrangements for taking the body to Bidar.

Com.R.S.Fauzdar, Circle Secretary UP(West) and other local comrades are at the Hospital and are giving all help to the Karnataka Comrades.

I express my heartfelt sorrow and convey condolences to the family, friends , relatives and comrades for the great loss.

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AIC held successfully

29 Saturday Sep 2012

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AIC BSNLEU - Ludhiana

The VI All India Conference of BSNLEU  Ludhiana was a great success.  Inaugural Session, Seminar, Open Session, Mahila Convention and delegate sessions were held in the  four days of the AIC from 25th t0 28th September. More than 3,000 delegates, including delegates and observers attended the AIC.

Coms. V.A.N.Namboodiri, P.Abhimanyu, Animesh Mitre and S.C.Bhattachargee were  elected as President, General Secretary, Dy. General Secretary and Treasurer respectively.

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Strike against ‘Austerity Measures’ in Greece

29 Saturday Sep 2012

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Hundreds of thousands participated in demonstrations in Greece on Wednesday to protest against the latest package of austerity measures introduced by the coalition government led by the head of the conservative New Democracy party, Antonis Samaras. The demonstrations were the first major mobilisations since Samaras became prime minister three months ago. Millions of workers also responded to the call for a 24-hour general strike by the country’s two main trade union federations, representing workers in both the private and public sectors—the General Confederation of Employees of Greece (GSEE) and the Civil Servants’ Confederation (ADEDY). Transport and public services, including schools, universities and hospitals, came to a halt in many parts of the country. Many flights were cancelled and ferry services were severely disrupted. Staff at the tax, customs and finance ministries declared they would continue their strike until Friday. Earlier this week, Greek police, fire-fighters, doctors and coast guard officers carried out strike actions. The size and impact of the strike and protests testified to growing opposition in the working class to the drive by the European and Greek bourgeoisie to reduce workers to penury in order to bail out the banks and finance houses with trillions of euros of public funds. Previous austerity packages have already plunged the Greek economy into a depression, bringing the jobless rate to 25 percent and throwing 30 percent of the population into poverty. The government estimates that the economy will contract another 25 percent by 2014. The past week has also seen mass protests in Portugal and Spain, where austerity measures demanded by the “troika” (the European Union, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank) are threatening a similar social catastrophe. The biggest demonstration took place in Athens, where some 70,000 people marched through the centre of the city chanting: “We won’t submit to the troika!” and “EU, IMF out!” A number of placards on the demonstrations expressed solidarity with the protests in Spain and Portugal. The state had prepared for the demonstrations in Athens by stationing 5,000 police and special forces in the city centre and erecting new bullet-proof barriers around the national parliament. When a section of the demonstration tried to break through police cordons, the police responded by firing tear gas at the crowds. Dozens of protesters were also arrested by riot police when crowds moved towards the capital’s other central square, Omonia, where the Communist Party-affiliated All Workers Militant Front (PAME) held its own separate rally. Prominent on the demonstrations were large delegations from Greece’s public services, civil servants, doctors and teachers. They were joined by large numbers of pensioners, students and youth. Greek university and technical college professors held their own demonstration to protest against further cuts to the country’s education budget. They rallied in front of the Finance and Development ministries in Syntagma Square before marching to the main building of the University of Athens. All of these sections of workers and youth have been hit with unprecedented attacks on their living standards by successive Greek governments, social democratic as well as conservative, in the past four years. Now they have been targeted again in the latest austerity package, designed to slash €11.5 billion ($14.87 billion) from the national budget. The cuts are due to be agreed by the Greek parliament on Thursday. The new package of austerity measures includes: * further huge reductions in wages and pensions; * an increase in taxes and the abolition of tax exemptions for the socially needy; * an increase in the retirement age from 65 to 67; * changes in labour laws to establish more flexible working hours and make it easier for employers to lay off workers; * the reduction or elimination of special social and welfare benefits for pensioners, the disabled and large families; * the shutdown or merger of hundreds of public entities (including hospitals, schools and kindergartens); * the elimination of 150,000 public-sector jobs by 2015; * drastic cuts in funding for education and health care. Despite the fact that previous governments have ignored all the demands raised by protesters in more than a dozen such strikes and days of action organised by the trade unions over the past three years, trade union officials sought to encourage illusions that it would be possible to pressure the Samaras regime to change course. Ilias Iliopoulos of the civil servants’ federation ADEDY declared that the demonstrations were “a warning to the government not to pass the measures.” In one more hollow threat from the unions, he said, “The government must know that if it wants to push us further into a corner, we will react.” This, however, was thrown out as part of a plea with the government to negotiate with the unions over the terms of the cuts. Outside the Finance Ministry, the unions similarly begged to be consulted in formulating the cuts. The unions had addressed a servile letter to Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras and Development Minister Costis Hadjidakis calling for a meeting to discuss the cuts to professors’ salaries and university and technical college budgets, which “are making the smooth operation of institutions of higher education and research problematic if not impossible.” In the letter, the union representatives asked to be included in “the mobilization of all the economic, productive, scientific, social and intellectual forces of this country” to “overcome one of the biggest crises in the country’s recent history.” Recent polls show popular support for SYRIZA matching that for the ruling New Democracy. Tsipras has been holding meetings with leading European officials, including the head of the European Union task force for Greece, Horst Reichenbach.

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Homage to the great Revolutionary Shaheed Bhagat Singh!

28 Friday Sep 2012

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Bhagat Singh

Today, 28th September is the 105th Birthday of the great Revolutionary Shaheed Bhagat Singh who was born on 28th September 1907 and who has hanged by the British imperialists on 23rd March 1931 at the young age of  23 along with Shaheed Rajguru and Sukh Dev. His last call to the nation and the world was ‘Inquilab Zindabad!’!

My revolutionary Homage to Shaheed Bhagat Singh and Comrades who laid down their  valuable lives for the freedom of the Nation!

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BSNLEU AIC starts at Ludhiana

25 Tuesday Sep 2012

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The VI All India Conference of BSNL Employees Union started at Ludhiana with the hoisting of National Flag by Com.V.A.N.Namboodiri and Union flag by Com.P.Abhimanyu, President and General Secretary of BSNLEU respectively. The massive hall which can house more than 3500 was full and many delegates / observers had to sit outside. The AIC was inaugurated by Com. A.K.Padmanabhan, All India President of CITU who called upon the workers to continue the fight against the anti-worker neo-liberal policies of the government along with the Indian working class. Com.V.A.N.Namboodiri, President, presided and Coms. P.Abhimanyu, GS, M.Krishnan, SG, NFPE, P.Abhimanyu, GS, P.Asokababu, Dy. GS and other leaders spoke. A massive procession was organised in the afternoon participated by thousands of workers. The open session in the afternoon was inaugurated by Com. Tapan Sen, M.P., General Secretary of CITU. Com. VAN presided. Sister unions addressed and greeted the conference.

All arrangements were made by the Reception Committee headed by Coms. Sidhu, Chairman, R.L.Moudgil, President and Balbir Singh, General Secretary of the Reception Committee.

The AIC will continue till 28th September.

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No roaming charges from next year – Kapil Sibal

25 Tuesday Sep 2012

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There will be no  roaming charges for mobile telephones from next year according to the statement of Communications minister Shri Kapil Sibal.

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