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Circular 22 – Joint Statement by CTUs on Labour Law Amendments
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Circular no 22/2014
8th August 2014

To
All Office Bearers of CITU
All State Committees of CITU
All Industrywise Federation

Dear Comrades,

A joint meeting of all Central Trade Unions (CTUs) was held on 07.08.2014 in New Delhi. The Statement issued on conclusion of the meeting is forwarded herewith which is self-explanatory.

It is important to note that the depth and sweep of the attack on Labour Laws is disastrous. The end result will be that the working class shall be robbed of major legal protection including fundamental trade union rights to fight the onslaught of capitalist class being promoted by the Narendra Modi Government.

The meeting denounced the retrograde move of the government to allow 49% FDI in Defence Sector, 49%in Insurance Sector and 100% FDI in Railways and also the Government move to go for huge divestment of profit making public sector enterprises.

CTUs also decided to build up united struggle against such anti-worker and anti-people move of the Modi Government and decided to organise a National Convention in New Delhi the first week of September 2014 in Delhi.

In the meantime, all of our affiliated and fraternal trade unions including the Industrial and Service Sector Federations must launch massive campaign on the matters with right earnest at all levels of our organization – national, state, district, local and unit to prepare ground for determined united struggles to defend the legal and conventional rights of the working class.

Once the date of the National Convention is decided we shall communicate you immediately.

With greetings,

Yours fraternally,
( TAPAN SEN )

The VII Central Pay Commission has, in its first phase of interaction, been seeking the views of various stakeholders on its terms of reference. To this end, meetings have been held in Delhi with various organisations and heads of various agencies.

In its second phase of interaction, the Commission plans to hold meetings in different parts of the country to facilitate stakeholders staying in various areas to present their views personally before the Commission and ensure larger representation. This exercise is being undertaken to enable the Commission to get a firsthand impression about the functioning and the condition of service prevailing in different parts of the country.
Accordingly, the Commission, headed by its Chairman, Justice Shri A. K. Mathur, proposes to visit Bengaluru between 25th August and 27th August 2014. The Commission would like to invite various entities/associations/federations representing any/all categories of employees covered by the terms of Reference of the Commission to present their views.
Your request for a meeting with the Commission may be sent through e-mail to the Secretary, 7th Central Pay Commission at secy-7cpc@nic.in . The memorandum already submitted by the requesting entity may also be sent as an attachment with this e-mail. An early response in this regard would facilitate proper scheduling of the meetings.

BSNL started with a staff strength of about 3.5 lakhs in 2000. There were about 3.10 non-executives and 40 thousand executives. During the last 14 years more than 1,40,000 have retired. About 30,000 new recruits, mainly in TTA and JTO cadre have been appointed by BSNL.

Now, what is the present strength of BSNL? As in July it is 2,34,216. The number of executives are 48,164 and the non-executives 1,86, 052. About 800 ITS officers are also working on Permanent Deputation. Thus the total can be increased to 2,35,000.

It is to be remembered that while P and T Department was bifurcated in 1985, DOT had about 6 lakhs staff. It got reduced to 3.5 lakh in 2000 due to retirement and no recruitment.

About 10,000 to 15,000 employees are retiring from BSNL every year, which results in drastic reduction of staff. By ab out 2015 almost all the staff recruited in DOT will retire, except a few appointed on compassionate grounds, regularised casual labour etc.

The average age of the present employees are around 50 years and is going high every year. There is an urgent need for recruitment since fresh blood is required for any organisation.

But the BSNL Management is least worried about it. Now some executives may be engaged. But again, it will not be regular appointment. Management is thinking of engaging  executives on contract.

This policy has got to be changed. BSNL being a public sector should give more employment, provide better service and should be financially viable. The actions being taken by the Govt. and the BSNL Management are not conducive to a healthy public sector. Struggle has become inevitable to maintain BSNL.

59 years are over after the mass murder and destruction of Hiroshima by the US on 6th August 1945 by dropping the first atom bomb any where in the world. The World War II was almost over with Japan and other axis countries surrendering to the US-Russia-Britain allies. There was no necessity at at all to drop such an atom bomb, since the war was already over.

US wanted revenge on the people of Japan and utilised the opportunity to test its atom bomb. Hiroshima was completely destroyed. 70,000 people burned and died on the spot. Another 70,000 died later due to burns. Many thousands were deeply wounded and disabled for life. But the US lust for murder was not over. It put another bomb on the city of Nagasaki on 9th August again killing about 90,000 or more.

Atom, Hydrogen and nuclear bombs are piled with the super powers. These are bombs with the power of hundreds of times of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. What will happen if some of them are fired to targets, even by mistake. It is stated that the bomb-piles are capable of destroying the earth several times.

Peace is the only alternative. While we remember all those lakhs of people who died and lived dying, the UN and all others should make all out efforts to get all these atomic weapons destroyed for ever.

INN
New Delhi, August 4: V.A.N.Namboodiri, Convener, Forum of BSNL Unions & Associations has issued the following statement:
The Forum of BSNL Unions & Associations, representing the two and half lakh employees in BSNL, strongly oppose the anti-worker and anti-BSNL report presented by the M/s Deloitte Consultants on the financial viability and revival of BSNL.
The report has been finalized without even consulting the Unions / Associations which represent the workers and are important stake holders. The Unions / Associations are on the crusade for the improvement, expansion of the services, financial viability etc. and have been presurising the Govt. and Management for urgent procurement of required mobile and other equipments. The BSNL Management and the Consultants have been dealing the issue in an arbitrary manner.
The portion of the report which is available with us, gives a shocking picture. It is proposed to reduce the present 330 + SSAs in to 167 Area offices and reduce the non-executive staff like RM, TM, Sr.TOA etc who are interacting with the subscribers and attending field level work to less than half of the present number of about 2 lakhs. This will result in deterioration of the services. Public will be put to much difficulties.
There has not been any mentionable recruitment to the above cadres and after formation of BSNL in 2000, more than one lakh thirty thousand workers have retired without any new replacement. Further, reduction will have drastic repercussion on the service.
It is understood that the Consultant had recommended to close or privatize the telecom factories under BSNL, which are manufacturing telecom equipments and infrastructure for many decades even during the British days. There has been much pressure from the private companies on the govt. for closure of these telecom factories so as to increase their business and profits.
The consultant recommends more and more outsourcing, instead of utilizing the available manpower, which will result in unnecessary expenditure. This is also meant for cheap labour of contract workers instead of regular employees.
The Forum of BSNL Unions / Associations strongly oppose the M/s. Deloitte recommendation and demand the BSNL Management and Govt. to immediately discuss with the Unions / Associations, before any decision is taken in the matter. (Ganashakti)

For two days, I could not reply to the comments made by our visitors. It may be due to some technical snags. I hope to rectify it quickly.

I AM REPRODUCING THE CALL GIVEN BY CITU AND OTHER MASS ORGANISATIONS TO OBSERVE 8 OR 9 AUGUST AS PROTEST DAY CONDEMNING ISRAELI ATTACK ON GAZA, PALESTINE AND ITS PEOPLE

CITU AIKS AIAWU AIDWA DYFI SFI
Condemn Killing of Innocent People of Palestine by Israeli Aggressors
Resolve Joint Mass Action at District and Taluk centres all over India
On 8th or 9th August 2014.
Declaration
We condemn with strongest terms the brutal killing of the innocent people of Palestine by the Zionist Government of Israel. We also denounce the US and other imperialist powers who are equally responsible for these killings due to their support to the Zionist. We note with shock and horror that in course of the last 25 days aggression by Israeli military forces so far more than 1500 people have been killed and the number is going up every day. 63 Israel soldiers including 3 civilians have also been killed. More than 7000 Palestinian people have been seriously injured. One third of Palestinians killed so far are children and women. Violating all international conventions even the schools, hospitals and UN shelters were bombarded. It is a war against humanity.
Over 1.8 million Palestinians are trapped in an occupied and besieged small piece of land that Israel has turned into an open-air prison, subject to daily bombardment. For seven years, the Palestinian people in Gaza have been under a brutal and illegal siege whose purpose is to destroy the conditions of life and break the national spirit of its people. The siege and continuing bombing have created a humanitarian catastrophe, with critical shortage of water, food and medical supplies. The main power generation station of Gaza was bombed by the Israel military with the ulterior motive to deny access to medical care even to those severely injured. The UN Human Rights Commissioner has said Israel should be investigated for war crimes.
With the active support of US Imperialism, Israel is determined to perpetuate the belligerent occupation on Palestinian land through the military aggression like the ongoing war. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled ten years back that the construction of Israel’s wall and its associated regime in the occupied Palestinian West Bank-of settlements, land confiscation, separate roads, permit system and movement restrictions – is illegal under international law. Yet in ten years the imperialist powers have planfully allowed Israel to continue construction on occupied territory and continue its system of occupation, apartheid and colonialism against the Palestinian people. In the situation there is widespread recognition that Zionist Israel must be isolated by the pressure of solidarity of the people all over the world with the people of Palestine.
Shockingly the Narendra Modi Government toeing with the line of US imperialists is supporting the Zionist Government of Israel. Modi government was adamant on not allowing the Indian Parliament to adopt a resolution condemning the mass killing in Palestine. Such position of the Modi Government is against the rich heritage of democratic and secular traditions of the people of India who raised its voice in the past against gross atrocities on humanity anywhere in the world; whether apartheid in South Africa or imperialist onslaught on Vietnam and illegal sanctions on Cuba. The Modi Government is further exposed of utter hypocrisy, by signing the BRICS resolution that condemn the Israel attack on Gaza, on one hand and taking the opposite position within the country on the other hand.
In order to build public opinion for peace, human rights and right to live, to pressurise the world governments including of India to do all efforts to prevent Israel from the barbaric attack on innocent civilians of Palestine. We representing various mass and class organisations appeal all sections of the people of India to demonstrate the anger against the inhuman, ongoing brutal killings of innocent people of Palestine by Israeli military by participating in the massive protest march and public meetings at District and Taluk centres all over the country on 8th or 9th of August 2014.
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A joint meeting of BSNLEU, AIBDPA and BSNLCCWF was held at Chennai on 1st August 2014 under the auspices of the circle unions of Chennai. The meeting was held in the spacious Rotary Club Conference Hall. A large number of workers including from BSNLEU, AIBDPA and BSNLCCWF participated, including about one hundred women. The same was presided by a Presidium consisting of the Circle Presidents of BSNLEU, AIBDPA and BSNLCCWF.
Com.K.Govindarajan, Circle Secretary, BSNLEU, Chennai Telephones welcomed the more than 400 comrades who attended the meeting. Coms.C.K.Narasimhan, Circle Secretary, AIBDPA, Punitha Udayakumar, All India Vice-President, BSNLEU, R.Arumugam, All India Organising Secretary, AIBDPA and other leaders addressed.

Com. V.A.N.Namboodiri, President, BSNLEU & BSNLCCWF and Advisor AIBDPA spoke on length on the issues of all the three sections. The decisions taken by the Rajkot CEC of BSNLEU and the decision to go on agitational programmes, CEC meetings of both AIBDPA & CCLU and their decisions to go on agitational path were explained. He also pointed to the new situation after the general elections. The new BJP government is continuing the same neo-liberal policies more aggressively. Workers rights are in danger, with the proposal of changing the labour laws. Communal harmony is being disturbed by miscreants and certain politicians. This has got to be opposed.
The house was full and the attention was beyond expectations.

The Circle Unions of Chennai deserve appreciation and thanks to their leaders for the excellent meeting.

The CEC Meeting of the AIBDPA started at Coimbatore today, 29th July 2014. The Open Session was held at Com. Puthiyavan Hall (Jeeva Jyothi Ashramam) named after the late leader Com.Puthiyavan, who passed away recently at Coimbatore.
Com. A.K.Bhattacharjee, All India President, presided. Com.C.K.Narasimhan, Circle Secretary,Tamil Nadu, welcomed all the delegates and invitees. The house stood in silence for one minute paying homage to the martyrs and who passed away recently.
The President in his address called upon the Pensioners to organise the union to making it capable of achieving the demand of the workers.
Com.R.Muthusundaram, General Secretary, AISGEF, inaugurated the open session. He spoke in detail about the anti-worker policies of both UPA and NDA. He strongly opposed the New Pension Scheme
and demanded its withdrawal. Com.V.A.N.Namboodiri, Advisor, AIBDPA and President BSNLEU, Com.Krishna Moorthy (CITU), Com. S.Chellappa, Circle Secretary, BSNLEU, T.Nadu Circle, Com.K.Govindarajan, C/Secy, Chennai, A.Sundaram (Convener, pensioners Assn, Com.K.G.Jayaraj, GS, AIBDPA addressed.Com. L.Umapathy, Convener, Reception Committee proposed vote of thanks.
The open session was attended by hundreds of comrades, despite the fact that today was a holiday. The big hall was packed to capacity.
The CEC will continue tomorrow.

The Central Executive Committee meeting of the All India BSNL DOT Pensioners Association (AIBDPA) starts today at Coimbatore. The Open Session will be held in the evening of 29th July and the CEC will continue on 30th also.
A press meet is being arranged in the afternoon of 29th July.