09 Tuesday Jan 2018
The World Working Women Congress under the auspices of the WFTU will be held at Pananma on 8th to 10th March 2018. Delegates from more than 40 countries are expected to participate and discuss about the various issues of the working women all over the world. We fully welcome the decision. Working Women from India are also expected to participate.
08 Monday Jan 2018
Posted in AIBDPA - BSNL DOT Pensioners
The All Unions and Associations of BSNL in its meeting held on 08-01-2018 has decided to go on programme of action on the major issue of the workers. The demands and the programmes are given below:
Struggle programme:
Charter of Demands
Settle:-
AIBDPA fully supports the programme and extends all solidarity to the struggle, which is fully justified. They will participate in all the programmes as earlier. AIBDPA thanks the All Unions and Associations of BSNL for including the demands of the Pensioners also.
08 Monday Jan 2018
Posted in Disinvestment, PSU
The Parliament Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture has suggested to the government that instead of privatisation / disinvestment of Air India, it should be given at least five years for revival. Instead of privatisation / disinvestment, an alternative for improvement of the national carrier, which is the pride of the nation, should be explored, it said.
Certainly. The government should completely withdraw from its move to privatise / disinvest Air India, the pride of the nation.
08 Monday Jan 2018
Posted in General
The exposure by ‘The Tribune’ about the lack of security of Aadhaar and that the information in the Aaadhar can be breached and leaked has put the government on the defensive. But instead of taking necessary action to rectify and secure the Aadhaar, the Modi government has turned its anger on those who exposed the insecurity and filed FIR against the woman reporter and others as also against the newspaper.
Wide scale protest has come from all sections of society, including politicians and parliamentarians against this victimisation of the whistle-blowers. Government can not be allowed to gag those who speaks against its wrong actions. The action of the government is undemocratic and has to be protested.
07 Sunday Jan 2018
Posted in Uncategorized
The payment of pensionary benefits, including revision of pension etc. are unduly delayed for the DOT and BSNL pensioners. When the issue is taken with the CCA, they are telling that there is acute shortage of staff and they are not able to cope up with the large number of cases of pensioners, increasing every year.
AIBDPA has already demanded that sufficient staff should be posted for dealing with the issues of the pensioners and there should be no difficulty and delay in getting pension and connected benefits to the senior citizens.
07 Sunday Jan 2018
Posted in PSU
Central government is closing or privatising its PSUs one after another on the plea of loss making. Due to the anti-PSU policy of the Modi government, many profitable PSUs are drifting towards loss.
But in Kerala, the situation is different. While under the UDF rule led by Congress most of the state PSUs posted loss. There was corruption, misuse of funds etc. But after the LDF government came one and half years back, the PSUs have started improving and many of them have become profit making.
While in the UDF rule the total loss of the 42 PSUs under the Kerala government was Rs. 113 crore. During the last one year under the LDF rule, these PSUs has posted a total profit of Rs. 34.19 crore. This is the result of the pro-PSU policy of the government.
07 Sunday Jan 2018
Posted in Pension
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Non linking of Aadhaar with Pension Account and Payment of Pension
In a reply to a question the Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance has stated in the Parliament that payment of Pension should not be stopped due to non-linking of the pension account with the Aadhaar number. And it is informed that in case if it is not possible to have Digital Life Certificate either through finger prints or through Iris scanning, the physical life certificate submitted by the pensioner may be accepted to avoid any harassment to the pensioner.
06 Saturday Jan 2018
Posted in Uncategorized
The Working Youth Committee of the WFTU strongly condemns the state of Israel for arresting and imprisoning of Ahed Tamimi, a 16-year-old Palestinian girl, because she resists against the Israeli occupation of her homeland. The Working Youth Committee will never accept the silencing of the struggling young people. We demand the immediate release of Ahed Tamimi and all the Palestinian political prisoners without terms or conditions.
AIBDPA expresses its full solidarity and struggle of the Palestine workers demanding release of the young girl!
06 Saturday Jan 2018
Posted in General
2017 was a sad year for the journalists in Latin America. 42 media persons were killed in 9 Latin American countries in 2017. There were forced disappearance of 27 persons in addition. They include those who worked as journalists, photographers, broadcasters, publishers and related trades. They were mainly progressives who wrote about the rights of the workers, opposed imperialism, capitalism and so on. The hidden hand of US imperialism is certainly behind these murders. We condemns these murders and express solidarity with media persons fighting for a right cause.
06 Saturday Jan 2018
Posted in AIBDPA - BSNL DOT Pensioners
PAME, the biggest organisation of the workers in Greece, is going on struggle, including strike, against the anti-workers actions of the SYRIZA government. The government is implementing austerity measures as dictated by the EU-IMF-ECB, which are demanded by
the industrialists, ship-owners, the bankers etc, since they serve their competitiveness and
profits. But it is loss of wages to employees. Government is trying to restrict trade union activities and agitations. It is trying to ban strikes!
We fully support and express our solidarity with the PAME and the working class of Greece and in their just struggle.
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