No. Date:
11.09.2014.
To
The Cabinet Secretary,
Government of
India,
Rashrapati
Bhawan Annexe,
New Delhi-110
001.
Through
the Head of Office.
Respected
Sir,
The Confederation of Central
Government Employees and workers is the apex level organisation of all
Federation/Association/Unions of CGEs other than in the Railways and Defense
Departments. It was in the wake of a Strike action in 1960s by the Central Govt.
Employees, the Govt. of India set up permanent negotiating machinery called JCM
so that the employees will be able to raise their demands and grievances and
seek settlement thereof through dialogue. This machinery has now come to a
standstill as the Govt. does not convene the meeting of the councils at the
National and Departmental levels on one pretest or the other. A new set of
rules for grant of recognition of service associations were promulgated in
1993. Many Ministries, despite the employees /Federations, abiding by the
stipulated conditions, have not JCM had the facility of referring the issues on
which the Government could not agree upon to the Board of Arbitration. The
decision/award of the Board was binding on all parties. Still the Government had
been rejecting the awards in favour of the employees on the specious plea of
adverse impact on national economy by presenting resolutions in the Parliament.
We need not emphasise the unethical character of this approach which undermines
the confidence of the employees in the fairness of the system.
The 6th CPC recommendations and its implementation had given
rise to various anomalies. The employees genuinely felt that the said anomalies
would be removed through discussion for which the Government had set up a
committee. The committee despite meeting on four occasions had not been able to
settle the issues; nor could it be referred to the Arbitrator. No decision has
been taken by the Government so far as to the fate of these anomalies.
The Government set up the 7th CPC in September last. Its
notification was issued early this year. Despite assurance being held out, the
terms of reference was not subjected to discussion with the staff side with the
result the demand of the employees to include the Gramin Dak Sewaks within the
ambit of the Commission was not acceded to. The 6th CPC
recommendations were implemented with effect from 01.01.2006. The revision of
wages was due on 01.01.2011 having completed five years. Wage revision is
permitted in the Public Sector undertaking every five years. The value of wages
fixed in 2006 has been eroded significantly during the period due to the high
rate of inflation and price rise.
The new contributory pension scheme was introduced by the Government on
the plea that the pension liability has become unbearable and is a drag on the
exchequer. In our Memorandum to the then Prime Minister, we had raised several
issues and had pointed out that the financial outflow on account of the new
scheme will be much more than the existing defined benefit scheme. We had indicated
in our memorandum quite a number of aspects which would be detrimental to the
interest of workers. The Government has decide allow FDI in pension fund
operations. This will only result in the flow of Indian Savings for investment
outside the country.
We submit herewith the charter of demands which requires settlement
urgently. We have also appended a Note on each of the issues included in the
charter of demands, which is self explanatory. We shall be grateful if these
issues are caused to be considered by the concerned departments of the
Government of India and brought before the negotiating forum for settlement.
Thanking you.
Yours faithfully,
( )
GENERAL SECRETARY
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