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Reference:
AIA/Spl. Circular/2023 Dated: 30/04/2023
MAY DAY MESSAGES
On this May Day, 2023, All India Audit and Accounts Association pay tribute
to the Chicago martyrs who sacrificed their lives in the struggle to establish
eight-hour work day and working class rights. This, year, May Day marks 100
years of observance of May Day in our country. It was in 1923 that Comrade M
Singaravelu hoisted the red flag in the then city of Madras. We pay rich
tributes to those pioneers of the Indian working class movement.
We are extending warm fraternal greetings to the employees and workers and all sections of toiling people in India who are today valiantly fighting against the onslaught of the ruling classes on jobs, wages, working conditions and hard won rights, benefits and basic entitlements, braving victimisation and inhuman attacks including physical attacks.
The labour codes, enacted during the pandemic are toolkits gifted to the
big corporates by the Central Government to enable unfettered exploitation of
workers, on the pretext of promoting ‘Ease of Doing Business’. On the one hand,
the labour codes legalise the hitherto illegal violation by the employers of
what were the laws of the land; on the other, they criminalise the workers’
collective actions to assert their basic trade unions and labour rights. Even
the universally accepted ‘Right to 8 hours working day’ synonymous with May Day
is being sought to be diluted. Recently in Chennai, the Assembly passed one
bill that the workers will perform duties in their work-place at least 12 hours
in a day considering 3 days paid holidays. The labour codes are meant to impose
conditions of slavery on the working people depriving them of all their
hard-won rights.
The public sector Banks, Insurance, Telecom, Port, Civil Aviation,
Electricity, Steel, etc. are set to be given to private corporates. Not only
industry and service, the government has also opened up agriculture to absolute
corporate control. The three farm acts are meant to facilitate corporate
takeover of our agriculture, hitherto dominated by small farmers.
The condition of Central Government Employees and Workers are no different.
NPS not yet withdrawn, FR 56(j) not withdrawn, unnecessary delay for allowing
promotions, arrears of D.A/D.R has been stopped. In this backdrop, this May Day
is of unparalleled importance.
The joint platform of Trade Unions and Federations of India calls out to
the workers of the nation to make this May Day a success. They congratulate the
working class overcoming difficulties like, victimisation by the employers,
authoritarian attitude of the bureaucrats, etc. through participate in series
of General Strikes.
On this May-day, the day of
working-class solidarity, The All India Audit and Accounts Association extends
warm greetings to all of our comrades specially to those who are fighting to
protect the hard earned rights not only to the Central Government Employees
movement but also for the entire working class movement.
We request the sincere
cooperation of all our dear Comrades to make the May Day’s programmes a grand
success through the lunch hour/recess hour meeting on 1st May, 2023.
“LONG LIVE MAY DAY”
“WORKERS UNITY ZINDABAD”
Fraternally yours,
