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The Government of India has issued a Press Note on 4th June stating that PSUs which had made wage agreement for 5 years can have the next wage revision for the non-executives with effect from 01-01-2012, with certain conditions. A copy of the same is given below:
| Policy for wage negotiations for workmen in Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) |
| “The Union Cabinet today approved the proposal for permitting the management of Central Public Service Enterprises (CPSEs) to initiate wage negotiations generally effective from 01.01.2012, subject to the condition that negotiated scales of pay would not come in conflict with existing scales of pay of executives / officers and non-unionized supervisors of the respective CPSEs. This will benefit workmen of those CPSEs which opted for 5 years of wage settlement w.e.f. 01.01.2007 and they can now go for another wage negotiation for 5 years w.e.f. 01.01.2012.
Background : There are 260 CPSEs in the country employing 13.98 lakh persons (2.74 lakh executives, 0.31 lakh non-unionized supervisors and 10.93 lakh unionized supervisors and workmen) as on 31.3.2012.” |
This is an achievement due to the continued struggles of the PSU workers. In BSNL, BSNLEU, the recognised union, insisted for a 5 years wage negotiation at the time of the last negotiation itself. It has raised the demand later also. In the Central Executive Committee to be held at Kolkata in July 7-9, both the Wage Revision from 01-01-2012 and Merger of 50% IDA are notified as main agendas. BSNLEU will insist that the 5 year period wage revision should be implemented in BSNL.
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