The
tradition of the Postal Trade Union movement, from the very day of its
inception, is the total unity of the entire Postal employees and Central Govt.
Employees – Whether they are called Departmental Employees or Extra –
Departmental Employees. Late Comrades: Tarapada Mukherjee, Dada Ghosh, K. G.
Bose, N. J. Iyer, Adinarayana, K. L. Moza and all those great leaders stood for
the unity of the entire Postal workers. Unfortunately, of late, deliberate
attempt is being made repeatedly, from certain quarters, to split and weaken
the rock – like unity of Postal employees.
In
2008, all the unions of NFPE took an unanimous decision to go on indefinite
strike from 6th January 2009, raising the main demands of the Gramin
Dak Sevaks (GDS) i.e.; reject the retrograde recommendations of the Nataraja
Murthy Committee report. But suddenly a strike notice was served by the then
GDS union General Secretary for indefinite strike from 17.12.2008 i.e, 18
days before the proposed indefinite strike of NFPE. Other unions were not
consulted. After serving the strike notice only it was known to others. What
was the need for going on strike in a so hurriedly manner, when NFPE was ready
for a joint strike from 06.01.2009. Will be sky come down if the strike is
delayed for 18 days to ensure cent percent unity of Postal Employees. The
intention was very clear to divide the unity of the Postal workers. The
leadership of the so – called GDS union played in the hands of the Govt. and
the Postal bureaucracy who are hell-bound to demolish the rock-like unity of
Postal workers. With the help of the so-called GDS union General Secretary, the
Government succeeded to some extent in creating a division among Departmental
employees and GDS.
Now
again, the same thing is being repeated. The entire Central Government
Employees, including the National Federation of Postal Employees has decided to
go on a nation-wide one day strike on 12th December 2012. One of the
major demands of the strike charter is the issues related to the GDS employees
– i.e.; 7th Pay Commission to examine the wages and service
conditions of GDS, 50% DA merger for GDS and not 5% TRCA increase,
Departmentalization of GDS and extending all the benefits of departmental
employees, Bonus discrimination, protection of allowance, Health Scheme, time
bound promotion etc. Intensive campaign all over the country is taking place
for making the strike a grand success. The strike was declared on 2012 July 26th
in the historic Parliament March in which about 20000 Central Government
Employees participated in which a large majority of them being Postal & RMS
employees including Gramin Dak Sevaks.
Again,
all of a sudden, the General Secretary of the truncated GDS Union, gave another
strike notice for indefinite strike from 16th October 2012. When the
entire employees are preparing for a joint strike, what is the need of giving a
sudden notice for another strike. Again, the intention is very clear. They are
playing in the hands of the Government. The Central Government wants to scuttle
the December joint strike by creating division among the Departmental Employees
and GDS. The leader is behaving as an agent of the Government and poor GDS are
the victims. GDS are not going to be benefited by such sectarian strike.
Shall
we allow such leaders to break the unity of Postal workers, by stabbing from
the back? Shall we allow the Government to break our unity by joining hands
with such leaders? No, we shall not. We shall expose those disruptors and at
any cost, shall uphold the unity of the Postal workers and march forward under
the banner of NFPE for protecting the interest of the Postal employees
including Gramin Dak Sevaks. Let us fight against the policy of the Government
and make the 12th December strike a thundering success.
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