PRESS STATEMENT
CONFEDERATION
OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AND WORKERS.
First
Floor, North Avenue Post Office,
New
Delhi. 110 001.
Website:
confederationchq.blogspot.com.
E
mail. confederation06@yahoo.co.in
Dated:
2nd September, 2015.
PRESS STATEMENT
The
initial report received at the Confederation CHQ indicates the participation of
about 8.5 lakh Central Government employees in today’s general Strike action of
the Indian working Class. Earlier endorsing the call of the Central trade
Unions, the Confederation of CGE and workers had called upon the Central
Government employees to take part in the one day strike to compel the Govt. to
withdraw the anti-people and anti-worker neo-liberal policies pursued since
1991. The report states that the offices of the Postal, Income Tax Ground Water
Board, Survey of India Geological Survey of India, , Indian Bureau of Mines.
Offices of the Census Departments, ISRO, Atomic Energy, Medical Store Depots,
Film Institute of India, Offices of the AGMARK, various other autonomous
scientific and research institutions, etc remained closed for the whole day and
the work completely paralysed. The strike also paralysed the functioning of
various offices of the Indian Audit and Account Department, Printing and
Stationary, Census, CPWD, Civil Accounts, Indian Standards Institute etc. Total
civilian employees of various Defence Organisations and Defence Accounts
Departments participated in the strike.
The strike in which lakhs of workers participated has cautioned the
Government of the consequences of scrapping the various labour welfare
legislations intended to please the Corporate houses.
The
Central Government employees were particularly unhappy over the denial of the
wage revision for the past 5 years, non grant of interim relief and merger of
DA, the continued outsourcing and contractorisation of Governmental functions,
denial of the Statutory defined benefit pension to the fresh appointees and
above all the closure of the negotiating forum- JCM- since 2010. The Finance
Minister’s statement in the Parliament while laying the Medium term Expenditure
Framework Statement pegging the additional revenue expenses on account of
salary, pension etc for the year 2016-17 at just 5% more than 2015-16 was
indicative of the nugatory attitude of the Government towards its own
employees’ genuine demand for wage revision. It has no doubt acted as a
catalyst to the enthusiastic participation of the employees in the Strike
action.
The
Strike was total in Kerala, Tamilnadu. Maharashtra, Punjab ,Telengana, Andhra
Pradesh, Karnataka, Jharkhand, Chattisgrah, MP, Orissa, West Bengal Assam,
North Eastern States w and 80 to 90% in other States.
The Confederation secretariat congratulates the employees and their leaders, who undertook intensive Campaign to make the strike such a grand success. The Confederation Secretariat while thanking all its members for their whole hearted participation in the Strike and making it an unprecedented success, places on record the gratitude and appreciation for the yeomen efforts of the various Central Government Pensioners organizations in supporting the strike action.
KKN. KUTTY
President,
Confederation
of Central Govt. Employees and Workers
