CONFEDERATION OF CENTRAL GOVT. EMPLOYEES & WORKERS
1st Floor,
North Avenue PO Building,
New Delhi – 110001
Website: www.confederationhq.blogspot.com
Circular No. 13 Dated 2.3.2014
GOVERNMENT REFUSED TO ACCEPT THE MAIN DEMANDS OF
THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES.
CONFEDERATION NATIONAL SECRETARIAT CALLS UPON THE
ENTIRE CG EMPLOYEES TO PROTEST AGAINST THE ARBITRARY AND UNILATERAL DECISION OF
THE GOVERNMENT.
HOLD NATION WIDE PROTEST DEMONSTRATION IN FRONT OF ALL OFFICES AND AT
ALL IMPORTANT CENTRES ON 7TH
MARCH 2014 OR AT ANY
IMMEDIATE CONVENIENT DATE.
SEND PROTEST SAVINGRAM TO THE PRIME MINISTER.
PREPARE for AN INDEFINITE STRIKE IMMEDIATELY AFTER
GENERAL ELECTION DEMANDING , MERGER OF DA , INTERIM RELIEF , INCLUSION OF GDS
UNDER 7TH CPC,
PARITY IN PENSION, DATE OF EFFECT 1/1/2014, SCRAP NEW PENSION SCHEME, SETTLE
ANOMOLIES,INCLUSION OF LABOUR REPRESENTATIVE IN THE PAY COMMISSION AND OTHER
DEMANDS IN THE 15 POINT CHARTER OF DEMANDs.
CONDUCT INTENSIVE CAMPAIGN AND MAKE THE 4TH APRIL NAGPUR NATIONAL CONVENTION A
GRAND SUCCESS
Dear Comrades,
The Union Cabinet approved the Finance Ministry’s proposal on terms of
reference of the 7thCPC. We have placed the full text of the
same on our website. None of the suggestions made by the Staff Side was
accepted by the Government.
However, our concern over the date of effect seems to have been taken
note of. The terms of reference has left the effective date of its
recommendations to be decided by the Commission itself. A united stand
backed up by struggles will enable us to clinch this demand in our
favour. Undoubtedly it has been our endeavours and the two days strike
action that has compelled the Government to have a rethinking on their earlier
stand of Decennial (Ten years} wage revision for Central Government employees
and the date of effect as 1/1/2016
Unlike on the earlier occasion, the Government has not decided to grant
Interim Relief and merger of Dearness allowance. Nor has it asked the Commission
to consider and make appropriate recommendation in this regard specifically. As pointed out in our
earlier communication, inclusion of a labour representative in the Commission
being not an idea the UPA Government cherishes, for it is diametrically
opposite to its economic policies and ideology, they have stuck to the position
of sandwiching the Honourable Judge with bureaucrats. In the light of the
agreement penned by Com. Mahadeviah, the General Secretary of the recognised
GDS union with the Postal Board to the effect that a separate one man committee
will look into the service conditions of the Grameen Dak Sewaks, it is not
surprising that the Government chose to ignore our demand to cover them within
the ambit of the 7th CPC. Our demands for parity
between the past and present pensioners and scrapping of the new pension scheme
also stand rejected.
As you are aware, the 6th CPC (and the earlier
Commissions also) had refused to entertain the demand for removal of anomalies
despite Government referring the same to the Commission specifically.
Therefore, the omnibus clause in the terms of reference requiring the
Commission to submit interim reports may not be of any help to us to raise the
anomalies before the 7th CPC.
At the conclusion of the meeting held on 24/10/2013 by Secretary, DoPT,
with the staff side on terms of reference of the 7th CPC, it
was agreed that the Government will consider our suggestion in the matter and
will convene another meeting with the presence of Secretary (Expenditure) to
iron out the differences, if any, and explore the possibilities of an agreement
in the matter. But no such meeting was convened and no attempt was made by the
official side to arrive at an agreed Terms of
Reference.
We must now react to the arbitrary and unilateral decision of the
Government. We appeal all the State
Secretaries, District Secretaries and Branch Secretaries of the affiliated
organisations and the State/District COCs to immediately send the following
Savingram to the Prime Minister.
THE CENTRAL
GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES WORKING IN THE
..........................................(NAME OF THE STATION)/ OFFICE
OF...........................CONDEMN THE ATTITUDE OF THE GOVERNMENT IN NOT
HONOURING ITS COMMITMENT OF HOLDING DISUCSSION WITH THE STAFF SIDE JCM NATIONAL
COUNCIL BEFORE FINALISING THE TERMS OF REFERENCE OF THE 7TH CPC
AND DEMAND IMMEIDATE ACCEPTANCE OF :
(i) Interim
Relief
(ii) Merger of
DA
(iii) Bringing the
Grameen Dak Sewaks within the ambit of the 7th CPC
(iv) Date of effect
from 1/1/2014
(v) Parity in
pension entitlement between the past and present pensioners
(vi) Coverage of the
existing defined benefit pension scheme to employees recruited on or after
1.1.2004. Include a representative of
the Labour in the 7th Central Pay Commission.
(viii) Settle the anomalies raised in the
National Anomaly Committee
While the National Convention scheduled to be held at Nagpur will chalk
out detailed and phased programmes of action, we call upon our State Committees
and Affiliated Unions to organise massive
demonstration in front of all offices and important centres on 7th March, 2014 (Friday) or any other immediate convenient date. Kindly
instruct all the Branches to mobilise their members so that the demonstration
has the participation of cent per cent of the membership of the concerned
branch. The State Units and affiliated Unions may issue pamphlets and
posters and ensure its wide circulation throughout the country.
As already declared by the National Secretariat of the Confederation, we shall have to go for an indefinite strike action
immediately after the General Election if our demands are to be settled.
With Greetings,
Yours fraternally,
M. KRISHNAN.
Secretary General.
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