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
