17 Tuesday Feb 2015
Posted in BSNL - Better Service to the Nation, Forum
A meeting organised by the Forum of BSNL Unions/Associations was held at Siliguri today. Com. M.K.Ghosh District Secretary, BSNLEU welcomed. Com. Pulok Ganguli (NFTE) presided.
Com. V.A.N.Namboodiri, National Convener Forum, Animesh Mitra, Circle Secretary W.Bengal and other leaders addressed.
16 Monday Feb 2015
Posted in Uncategorized
The unions in Airport Authority of India has called for one day strike on 11March 2015 protesting the govt.s move to privatise four more profit making airports viz. Chennai, Kolkata, Jaipur and Ahmedabad. These are all profit making airports and the AAI had spent about 5000 Crores for their modification.
16 Monday Feb 2015
Posted in Uncategorized
The unions in Airport Authority of India has called for one day strike on 11March 2015 protesting the govt.s move to privatise four more profit making airports viz. Chennai, Kolkata, Jaipur and Ahmedabad. These are all profit making airports and the AAI had spent about 5000 Crores for their modification.
16 Monday Feb 2015
Posted in AIBDPA - BSNL DOT Pensioners
A meeting of condolence to pay homage to Com. S.K.Vyas, veteran leader of the Central government Employees and Pensioners’ movement will be held at Civic Centre, D.Block at Income Tax building, New Delhi at 03.00 PM on 17th February 2015. All comrades are requested to be present in time.
16 Monday Feb 2015
Posted in BSNLCCWF - Casual and Contract workers
The Circle Executive Committee meeting of BSNLCCWF W.Bengal Circle was held at Jalpaiguri on 13-14 February 2015. Com.Tapas Ghosh, Secretary General BSNLCCWF attended on 13th and addressed the CEC and Com.V.A.N.Namboodiri, President addressed on 14th February 2015. The meeting discussed about the issue of the casual contract workers and decided to continue sustained struggle to settle the demands.
The Open Session on 14th was also addressed by Com. Namboodiri, who is also the National Convener of the Forum of BSNL Unions/Associations. it was also addressed by the leaders of the BSNL Unions/Associations.
Circle President Com. Govinda Das presided. Circle Secretary Com. Tapas Ghosh submitted the report which was approved by the house. The discussion by the delegates were very educative and positive.
14 Saturday Feb 2015
Posted in Uncategorized
The Circle Conference of AIBDPA W.Bengal started today, 14 February 2015 at Bolpur with the Flag hoisting by the circle President Com.D.K.Mitra. All the delegates paid homage at the Martyrs Column by floral tributes.
More than 200 comrades attended the Inaugural session. Com.D.K.Mitra Circle President presided.Com.Susanta Ghosh,Circle Secretary welcomed all. Com.V.A.N.Namboodiri, Advisor, AIBDPA inaugurated the Confrtence.Comrades A.K.Bhattacharjee, All India President, K.G.Jayaraj, General Secretary, L.K.Ghosal, Biplab Das and other leaders addressed. All the speakers expressed strong protest against the delay in ordering of 78.2 per cent IDA Pension fixation.
There was singing of the International Anthem before start of the session.
The delegates session started in the afternoon of the day.
14 Saturday Feb 2015
Posted in Uncategorized
With the death of Com. S.K.Vyas, one more of the remaining leaders of the great era of historical struggles of the 1960-1970s have passed away. On the one side, sustained struggles against the government on the justified demands and on the otherside internal struggles for the correct trade union policy. We remember Coms. K.G.Bose, N.J.Iyer, K.Adinarayana, S.K.Vyas, Moni Bose and other leaders in this respect who had dedicated themselves to the service of workers and sacrificed every thing. I am fortunate that I could work and get personal advice and guidance from all these stalwarts. They are the shining red stars in the history of the CG employees movement. Their lives and ideals will certainly guide us in our future activities.
13 Friday Feb 2015
Posted in Uncategorized
All arrangements for organising Parliament March on 25 February by BSNL employees as per call of Forum is being done. The wall posters with the demands are being put on the websites of the unions which can be got printed by circle secretaries in the regional language. Central Trade Union leaders and Members of Parliament have been invited to address the Parliament March.
Forum has decided to present the Memorandum of Demands to the Prime Minister with one crore signatures from the public. While some circles have informed about number of signatures collected, there is no report from most circles. Approaching the public, explaining our demands and getting their signature in the Memorandum is a serious task. It has to be done urgently.
Our comrades should take this task with out any further delay.
SAVE BSNL, SAVE NATION
13 Friday Feb 2015
Posted in Uncategorized
With deep grief and extreme sorrow, it is intimated that Com. S.K.Vyas, the legendary leader of the Central Govt. Employees and Pensioners, is no more. He passed away at about 08.20 PM today, 13 February 2015, at a Jaipur hospital, where he was admitted a few days back after a massive heart attack. He was recovering, but all of a sudden, the situation worsened and he passed away. He was 85 years.
When, myself along with CGE leaders met him on 7 February at the hospital ICU, we were happy to know that he was recovering. But to the sorrow of all, he left us.
His funeral will take place at Jodhpur tomorrow.
Com.Vyasji was the Secretary General of the Confederation of Central Govt. Employees and workers since 1967 for more than four decades. He was holding the posts of Secretary General of both BCPC and NCCPA, Federations of Pensioners Associations till his end.
His death is an irreparable loss to the entire CGE and Pensioners movement.
My heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family, friends and comrades.
Red Salute to Com.S.K.Vyas!
13 Friday Feb 2015
Posted in Neo-liberal policy, PSU
The move of the central government to privatise Chennai, Kolkata, Jaipur and Ahmedabad has been strongly opposed by the Airport Authority Employees Union. The Airport Employees organised massive protest demonstrations in front of AAI offices demanding that the privatisation move should be dropped.
It is to be mentioned here that all these airports which are now managed by the Airport Authority of India has been modernised with improved infrastructure by spending more than Rs. 50,000 crore. There is no need as such for further modification or spending money at present. The government’s move is only to favour private companies to get the benefit from running the airports. All these four airports are profitable. There are many airports under AAI which are loss making and the same is compensated by the profit making airports.
The Government has already privatised the most profitable airports in the country, viz. Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad. The air-travellers are compelled to pay airport charges, which was not there when these were managed by AAI. Everything in the airports like tea, coffee, stationary, parking etc. have become more costly after privatisation. This will repeat in the new privatised airports also.
The privatisation of airports is completely against the interests of workers, travellers and the country. It is only to maximise the profit of the private companies by acquiring the well maintained airports. Strong opposition should come from the people and opposition political parties.
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