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Coms Thulasiram and B.N.Ghosh President and Vice President of UPTW leading procession at NAGPUR Conference, October 1953 nt
18 Thursday Aug 2016
K.T.Muhammed appreciated by Telepost in 1951
18 Thursday Aug 2016
Rs.34,600 crore as arrears to CG Employees
18 Thursday Aug 2016
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As per a government statement about Rs.34,600 crore will be paid as arrears to CG Employees as per VII CPC recommendations. The payment is expected within one month.
EPF remittance on-line only
18 Thursday Aug 2016
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EPFO has issued directions that remittances to EPF should only be through online banking. It was stated that there are about 50,000 accounts still paying otherwise.
Minimum Wage increased to Rs.14,055 by Delhi Government
18 Thursday Aug 2016
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The Kejriwal Government has issued orders increasing the minimum wage of the workers in Delhi from the present Rs. 9,568 to Rs. 14,055 an increase of over 50%. The wages for the semi-skilled is increased from Rs. 10,582 to Rs. 15,471 and skilled from Rs. 11,622 to Rs. 17,033.
We congratulate the Delhi AAP Government for the fully justified increase. The Central Trade Unions have demanded the Central Government to increase the minimum wages to Rs.18,000. Though government agreed to increase to Rs.10,000, even for that no orders have been issued. This is one of the demand in the 2nd September Nationwide Strike.
Visit the Past (21) – Posts in the Past
17 Wednesday Aug 2016
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Today the entire world, including India has best Postal Services. But what about centuries back?
It is written that in 6th Century BC Cyrus, the King of Persia had established a Postal system through horsemen. It helped him in the Scythian war. He built stages on the route so that the horse and man can refresh and start again or change the horse and man. In China, very early postal system existed.
Many kings used many methods for conveying news.
Visit the Past (20) – Pension extended to all non-pensionable cadres
17 Wednesday Aug 2016
Posted in CG Employees, VISIT THE PAST
The ‘Inferior cadres’ like mistry, laskar and many such cadres were treated as non-pensionable cadres. Those telephone operators, who were recruited after 1919 were also denied pension. Only the ‘Superior cadres’ were getting pension. The then existing unions like All India Postal & RMS Union, Indian Telegraph Association, All India Telegraph Union, All India Postmen & Lower Grade staff union etc. agitated for getting pension to all these non-pensionable cadres.
At last in 1938, the government and the Director General Posts and Telegraphs issued orders bringing all these omitted cadres in to pensionable cadres. It was a great victory.
All the benefits that the employees are getting now have been the result of continuous struggles and herculean efforts by the trade unions. P and T employees’ unions were in the forefront of these struggles.
Visit the Past (19) – Strike in Telegraph Workshop Calcutta in July 1937
17 Wednesday Aug 2016
Posted in Telecom, VISIT THE PAST
Since formation of unions in P&T, struggles were organised. Sometimes, the workers have gone on strike action all of a sudden against gross injustice. It is such a strike that had happened in the Telegraph Work Shop, Calcutta in July 1937.
The strike started in the galvanising section of the workshop by about 100 workers demanding increase in wages for the night shift and also for working on Sundays. Next day, more than 1000 workers of the workshop went on strike in support of the galvanising workers who are on strike.
A report published in the “Statesman” of 14th July 1937, in this connection is quoted below:
“About 1,000 workmen of the Government Telegraph Workshops, Alipore comprising blacksmith, fitters and laskars, went on strike yesterday morning. These men, it is understood, have not formulated any demand, but have “downed tool” in sympathy with 86 men of the galvanising department, who struck work on Saturday last for an increase in wages, mainly, a day and a half wages for night shift and double wages for Sunday work.”
Two important things are to be noticed. The workers in one section went on strike on their own demands and the other workers in the same workshop went on solidarity strike. Yes the P&T workers have a great tradition of comradeship.
Rs. 5.4 lakh crore NPA (Bad loan) of PSU Banks!
16 Tuesday Aug 2016
The PSU Banks in the country are having NPA or the bad loans not returned of Rs. 5,39,995 crore as in 2016. For the last 15 years, the NPAs have been increasing every year. These are loans of crores of rupees given to big corporates, business barons and so on. Neither the government nor the PSU Banks are taking any serious action to recover these loans. These are companies who are having sufficient funds to repay. This is a conspiracy between the management of the banks, corporates and ruling political parties.
There is a need to expose all of them. The Banks should publish the list of these corporates. They should be shamed. Government should take serious action against all those involved. It is the people’s savings that have been swindled.
Disinvestment / Privatisation, an attack on SC/ST Workers.
16 Tuesday Aug 2016
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Privatisation/ Disivestment is an attack on the job security of workers, especially that of SC/ST. After privatisation, mass scale retrenchment takes places to reduce staff. The first to be retrenched are women and SC/ST employees. The plea of management is that there is no reservation in private.
Govt.is defeating its own reservation policy by privatisation. Fight and defeat anti- worker policy!
