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National Convention by Central Trade Unions

10 Wednesday Jul 2013

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The 11 Central Trade Unions have decided to hold a National Convention of Workers at Mavlankar Hall, New Delhi, on 6th August 2013 as part of its agitational programme on the 10 points demands already raised earlier and on which 48 hours strike was organised on 20-21 February this year. Though the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has stated that the demands are ‘unexceptionable’, no action to settle the demands has been taken by the government. Unless the government is given a big jolt, it will not accept any demands of the workers, while it has no difficulty in favouring the MNCs and corporates with all their demands. Of course, it is becoming the ‘Government of the corporates’ instead of a government of the people.

 

Sepoy Mutiny started at Meerut on this day in 1857

10 Wednesday Jul 2013

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10th July 1857 was the day on which the Sepoy Mutiny started in Meerut, which actually was the First War of Independence led by the Indian Sepoys and the many small rulers in the country.

Despite initial success against the British rulers, the revolt was crushed by the British through their better disciplined army and sophisticated equipment.

But the mighty fight and the sacrifices of the sepoys and fighters like Jhansi Rani, Tantiatopi who sacrificed their lives at the warfront will ever be remembered by the people of this country.

PM strongly back 100% FDI in Telecom

10 Wednesday Jul 2013

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This is not surprising. The Prime minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has strongly backed the proposed increase of 100% FDI in Telecom. In fact, it is his own child. The government is trying to sell the family silver in a massive way to favour the MNCs and get some money, which is not worth even 25% of the assets.

It is also reported that he is favouring the increase of FDI from 26% to 49% which has been strongly opposed by the Defence minister A.K.Antony who termed the proposal as retrograde.

Only a very strong and committed movement can save the country from this government, who is only the manager, from selling the assets of the country whose real owners are the people of this country.  At this time people have started recollecting the entry of East India Company in India, which heralded the British rule for two centuries. History repeats, but in new form and new ways. Unless one learns lessons from history and reacts, the future will be in peril.

Programmes of Action by Central TUs

09 Tuesday Jul 2013

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 The Joint meeting of Central Trade Unions held on 8th July 2013 at BMS office, New Delhi has decided the following course of joint mobilization/agitations and activities

National Convention of Trade     Unions on 6th August 2013 at Mavalankar Hall, New Delhi

  1. State     level and district level rallies/agitations/demonstrations/jail bharo etc     during last week of September 2013
  2. March/demonstration     before Parliament in the month of December during Parliament session.
  3. In     various sectors like Coal, Telecom, Banks & Insurance, Transport,     Power, Port & Dock etc, joint struggles/strikes are being     planned/undertaken by the respective federations. All support should be     extended to those struggles. Central Trade Unions should also jointly endeavour     to develop sectoral struggles in various sectors.
  4. Dates and details of programmes in September and December will be finalized through joint consultation of Central Trade Unions and announced from the National Convention.

You are requested to please ensure participation of your organization in the National Convention of Trade Unions to be held on 6th August 2013 at Mavalankar Hall, New Delhi as on all previous occasions.

BSNLEU demands Recruitment of Staff

09 Tuesday Jul 2013

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The Central Executive Committee meeting of BSNL Employees Union has demanded recruitment of required staff in BSNL. Since formation of BSNL, during the last 12 years, about 1,30,000 employees have retired. If you count about the 30,000 new recruitment in certain limited cadres, then the reduction of staff comes to 1,00,000. Most of the retired belong to the lowest non-executive staff.

There is acute shortage of staff and the work is suffering due to the same. The management not only are against recruitment, but is also trying to retrench the staff through VRS. Yes this is a method of destabilising the company and making if in-efficient.

Hence the decision of BSNLEU is correct and the same should be strongly persued.

 

 

Jyoti Basu Birth Centenary Celebration started

09 Tuesday Jul 2013

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 Jyoti Basu’s birth Centenary   celebrations started in Kolkata on 8th July through a hugely attended programme at Mahajati Sadan in Kolkata. CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat, CPI(M) Politbureau Member Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, Left Front Chairman Biman Basu spoke in the programme at Mahajati Sadan attended by who’s who in the field of arts’, science and commerce.   CITU also organized programmes  in the state commemorating the birth centenary of the  mercurial  CITU leader , CPI(M) State Secretary Biman Basu  who presided over  the programme which started after garlanding on Jyoti Basu’s huge portrait on the stage. Leader of all Left Constituents including veteran  Forward Block leader Ashok Ghosh was present in the programme

Drop Decision to sell NLC shares – Left parties.

06 Saturday Jul 2013

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Left parties today demanded that the Centre withdraw its decision to sell five per cent stakes of the public sector Neyveli Lignite Corporation to private players.

“We insist that the Centre withdraw its decision to sell five per cent stakes of Neyveli Lignite Corporation to private sector”, the Left Parties stated.

Red Salute to Com. C.H.Asokan

06 Saturday Jul 2013

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Com. C.H.Asokan, former State Secretary of the Kerala NGO Union and Secretary of All India State Government Employees Federation passed away yesterday in a Trivandrum Hospital. He was 61. He was functioning as the CPI(M) Area secretary, Onchiyam after retirement from service. For the last many months he was not allowed to go home after he was made an accused in a murder case by the Kerala Police and jailed and harassed.

He was a very good organiser, speaker and agitator and strengthened the NGO union in Kerala. While both of us were in Calicut, we had close contact as the leaders of P&T Union and Kerala NGO Union. The last time I met him was a few weeks back while attending the Keluettan Birth Day anniversary at Calicut. He told that he is staying in Party office, since he was not allowed to go to his home at Onchiyam by the police. Now his body will go home with honour and respect.

My heartfelt condolences on the sad and untimely death of Com. Asokan. Red Salute to Com. C.H.Asokan, the fighter for the workers and the common people.

CITU Congratulates NLC Workers

05 Friday Jul 2013

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CITU CONGRATULATES NEYVELI LIGNITE WORKERS FOR HEROIC UNITED STRIKE AGAINST DISINVESTMENT

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The Centre of Indian Trade Unions congratulates the workers as well as all the unions of Neyveli Lignite Corporation(NLC) at Tamilnadu for their all in united indefinite strike action from today against the decision of the Govt to disinvest shares of public sector company.

The strike commenced today and around 27000 workers including 13000 contract workers are in complete strike from today with a firm determination to resist offloading of shares of NLC to private hands.

CITU also congratulates all the trade unions and associations representing the employees and workers of NLC for the all in unity they have built up in the course of anti-privatisation struggle.

CITU condemns the move of the Govt and the NLC management to move to High Court to get the strike banned ignoring the sentiment and opinion not only of the workers and officers of NLC but the people of Tamilandu irrespective of political affiliations.

The heroic all in united strike struggle of the NLC workers against privatization and disinvestment would inspire the public sector workers and the working people in general in the struggle against anti-people economic policy and policy of privatization. CITU calls upon the trade union movement and the working class in general to extend their support and solidarity to the heroic strike struggle by NLC workers.

 

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CITU denounces Airports Privatisation

05 Friday Jul 2013

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CITU DENOUNCES GOVT’s MOVE TO PRIVATISE AIRPORTS04.07.2013

A Press Statement issued by CITU protesting Airports’ Privatisation is  given below:

The Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) strongly denounces the Government’s move to privatize 15 major airports in the country through so called public-private-partnership route as reported by the Press (Times of India of 4 July, 2013). Reportedly, the process is to start with inviting global bids for six airports viz., Calcutta, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Lucknow and Guwahati.

It is surprising that, in this beginning round, Govt selected such airports, to hand over to private hands, which are having “substantial commercial activities” and higher revenue earnings; and where already huge investments have been made by the Govt through Airport Authority of India (AAI) for renovation and modernization.

Only for modernization and renovation of Calcutta and Chennai airports Rs 3700 crores have been spent by AAI and also thousands of crore of public money have spent for modernizing other 13 airports. And now, handing over the management and control of those airports to private hands, both domestic and foreign, leaving Govt-owned Airport Authority only earn rent/revenue tantamount to transferring of huge public asset virtually free of cost to private hands. Is the Govt entitled to fitter away public asset like that?

Most ridiculous is the Civil Aviation Ministry’s argument, quoted by the press, for such a retrograde move of handing over readymade modernized and high revenue earning airports to private players is that such an exercise would improve the management of the airports. Will those wise people say which agency in the country is having more exposure and experience of managing and running airports other than the Airport Authority of India? Or whether the game plan is for handing over the management and control of such vital infrastructure, involving national security like airports, to foreign players? The Ministry officials have also reportedly stated that they “are not being allowed to work at a fast pace” and hence let the private players rule on public asset and earn fortune without making any capital investment. This exposes the game plan further: Not to allow the Airport Authority of India to operate autonomously through bureaucratic interventions, give them a bad name and pave the way for private and foreign players to reign in. This can no way be in the national interest must be stopped forthwith.

CITU condemns such disastrous move to hand over the control of management of the vital infrastructure like airports to private hands reducing the Airport Authority to a virtual rent earning non-entity and urges upon to the Govt of India to stop such exercise of privatization of airports through PPP route which is highly detrimental to national interests.

CITU calls upon the trade union movement in the country and the workers and unions of civil aviation sector in particular to unitedly resist such move of privatization of airports.

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