08 Tuesday Mar 2016
Posted in CG Employees, General, VII CPC
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The proposed Indefinite Strike of Central Government employees to start from 11th April 2016 against the retrograde recommendations of the VII CPC has now been postponed to 11th July 2016. The National JCA meeting held on 7th March, after considering all aspects including the appeal by the Cabinet Secretary, the announcement of the elections in five states and connected matters, has decided to postpone the strike.
09 Tuesday Feb 2016
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NJCA DECIDED INDEFINITE STRIKE FROM 11th APRIL 2016
Meeting of the National Joint Council of Action (Railways, Defence, Postal, Confederation) held on 08th February 2016 at New Delhi has unanimously decided to serve indefinite strike notice on 11th March 2016 and to commence indefinite strike from 11th April 2016. The demands of the strike is also finalised.
09 Wednesday Dec 2015
Posted in CG Employees, VII CPC
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NJCA MEETING DECISION
INDEFINTE STRIKE FROM 1ST WEEK OF MARCH 2016
Meeting of the National Joint Council of Action (Railways, Defence and Confederation) was held on 08.12.2015 at JCM National Council Staff Side office, New Delhi. Detailed deliberations on 7thCPC related issues (including Gramind Dak Sewaks and Casual, Contract and daily-rated workers) was held and a Common charter of demands was finalized. It is further decided that the NJCA shall go on indefinite strike from the 1st week of March 2016, if the Government fails to reach a negotiated settlement with the staff side before 1st week of February 2016. A letter intimating this decision will be given to the Government shortly along with the common charter of demands. Letter to Government and charter of demands will be published in the website within two days. (Confederation News)
01 Tuesday Dec 2015
Posted in CTU, TU News - India
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Lakhs of tea garden workers and employees went on a historic strike in North Bengal defying the tea garden owners and the TMC’s fatwa not to join the strike convened by the joint forum of the tea garden employees including the CITU led Chia Kaman Majdoor Union. The strike call was fully successful in the over 260 tea gardens out of a total of 276 tea gardens spread across Darjeeling hills, terai and dooars. Baring a few handful few which clocked partial shutdown as to the presence of TMC ‘s union all the other tea gardens remained closed as CITU State Secretary Dipak Dasgupta rushed to North Bengal to hand over economic support to families of famished tea garden workers of the state. At the call of the major trade unions all the other unions of various industrial sectors too demonstrated in the state in support of the Strike call given by the tea sector trade Unions. It can be recalled that yesterday at the call of the Joint forum of tea garden workers, the tea workers observed relay hunger strike at 44 places in the region. The strike, convened by a Joint Forum of 24 different tea workers unions, comes against the backdrop of the death of 22 workers in the tea gardens of north Bengal since May 2015 due to malnutrition and diseases caused by hunger.
The W. Bengal Government should immediately act for discussion and settlement of the issues of the tea garden workers.
22 Thursday Oct 2015
Posted in WFTU
500 trade union organizations call for Demonstrations on October 22 and General Strike on November 12. Rallies of PAME will take place in dozens of Greek cities on Thursday, October 22, 2015 against the new wave of attack coming from the coalition Government of SYRIZA – ANEL. Against the abolition of the social character of Social Security, the extreme taxation to the people, the increase of the retirement age, the layoffs, the privatizations, etc. At the same time the forces of the class trade unions prepare a Strike Response on November 12. Till now 500 trade unions, students, self employed, women, and small farmers’ associations have joined the call of PAME. Rallies have been announced.
We fully support the struggle of the Greek Workers!
15 Thursday Oct 2015
Posted in TU News - India
After 17 days of heroic sustained struggle, the Plantation managements have been compelled to increase the wages of the plantation workers in Kerala. In the meeting of the Government, Owners and Unions held on 14th October 2015, agreement was reached as follows: Tea and Coffee estates workers: Increase from Rs. 232 to Rs. 301. Cardamom estates workers: From Rs. 267 to Rs. 330. Rubber estates from Rs. 317 to Rs. 381. By adding other benefits the Tea and Coffee workers will get Rs. 436, Cardamom workers Rs. 478 and Rubber workers Rs. 436. The strike has been withdrawn on the basis of the agreement.
Hearty Congratulations to the workers and unions of Plantations in Kerala !
25 Tuesday Aug 2015
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The Government had stated that it will be difficult to announce Rs.15,000 as Minimum Wage as demanded by the Central trade Unions, but some increase will be there. But despite many weeks, no orders have been issued. Workers will not be happy with any amount less than Rs. 15,000 as demanded by the Central TUs.
Is the government waiting for the strike to take place? In that case, the government will certainly see the anger of the workers. There is nothing surprising in the government in-action, since it has a tradition of promising and not delivering.
20 Monday Jul 2015
Posted in General, TU News - India
The various federations of the electricity employees have decided to go on strike against the Electricity (Amendment) Bill, which the BJP government is proposing to introduce in the ensuing session of Parliament, which is against the interest of the nation as well as the employees. The strike will be organised on the day of the introduction of the bill in the Parliament.
We extend our full support to the fully justified strike of the electricity employees!
22 Monday Jun 2015
Posted in PSU, TU News - India
The meeting of the All India Co-Ordination Committee of Public Sector Trade Unions (CITU), held at Hyderabad on 22nd June 2015 has called upon the entire PSU workers, including contract workers, to organise and make the One Day Strike called by the Central Trade Unions a big success.
The meeting was held at Com. Sunderayya Vignan Kendra, at Hyderabad. !52 delegates from 46 unions participated. From BSNLEU and BSNL Casual and Contract Workers Federation, Coms. V.A.N.Namboodiri, Swapan Chakraborty, J.Sampath Rao, Mohan Redyy, Taranath and Paripoornachari participated.
Meeting was presided by Com. Vishnu Mohanty, CITU Vice-President. Com. Tapan Sen, General secretary, CITU, inaugurated the convention. Com. Swadesh Dev Roy, Convener, Co-Ordination Committee, presented the report and reported the latest developments. More than 25 comrades participated in the discussion. Com. V.A.N.Namboodiri and Com. Swapan Chakraborty addressed on behalf of BSNLCCWF and BSNLEU respectively.
The Convention unanimously decided to make massive campaign amongst the workers about the anti-worker policies of the government. The policy of the government to close or privatise all the PSUs has to be resisted and defeated. The exploitation of the casual and contract workers have to be opposed and justice meted out to them. The immediate task is to campaign to make the strike a complete success. State level conventions should be organised. Without struggle, negotiations will not be successful. The report presented by the Convener was unanimously adopted. It was also suggested that a meeting of the CPSTU be held in preparation of the strike.
The meeting of the Co-ordination Committee and the discussions and decisions have enthused the delegates. All are determined to make the strike a big success.
20 Saturday Jun 2015
Posted in TU News - International
It is reported that the UK TATA Steel Workers may defer the proposed strike in view of the discussions held between the unions and the management and the proposed settlement. However, since, strike ballot has been taken and the vast majority supported the strike, another ballot may be required for deferring the strike considering the discussion and proposed settlement.
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