Dear all,
Sub: Joint Movement on Wage Demands
This refers to the mail of Com S. Vasudevan, Secretary General of AIGIFWA dt 16.3.2010. I fully agree with his perception.
The Chennai JAC meeting on 12.3.2010 was attended by all-India leaders of Unions/Assns as mentioned by Com Vasudevan. Com.B.Shanmugham & Com.Kesavan (NIAOA - Confed), Com Ramadoss & Naganathan (GIOAIA - INTUC), Com.Sathyanarayana (Secretary GIEAIA), Com KA Alexander, Com. Umapathy & Com Asokan (SC/ST Welfare Assn) represented their organisations in the meeting, besides J Gurumurthy & PV Nandakumar (AIIEA), G Jayamurthy(Parishad), S.Vasudevan (AIGIFWA), Vasudevan Iyengar, Jose & CA Baskaran (CONFED & UIIOA).
The meeting was held as a continuing process of building up joint movement to break the stalemate in the negotiations and to arrest the intended move of mgt to go ahead with unilateral actions. The success of earlier programmes chalked out in joint meetings at Chennai was noted. Except in General Insurance, in all the public sector institutions, strike actions have taken place on wage question and good settlements have been made possible. It is nearing three months now since the last round of talks was held in General Insaurance on Dec 22. The mgt has been indulging in devious acts to keep some unions out of any joint movement and propogating that one union has given its consent for 17.5%. This has been repudiated by the unions and it is felt that such falsehood of the mgt should be responded by concrete actions by all the unions.
With due consultations, Com.CA Bhaskaran, Secretary General of Confed has since advised their constituent units to issue strike notice on the mgt for the strike actions as discussed and as per consensus arrived at in the JAC meeting held on 12th March.
- The joint programmes as decided include
Two-hour walk-out strike preceding lunch interval on March 31 &
One day strike on April 13, 2010 with weekly demonstrations -
* To break the silence of mgt;
* To press for early resumption of talks with better offers sans conditionalities; &
* To secure a respectable wage package & another Pension option.
AIIEA is endorsing the call and will be issuing Strike notice on the mgt. A joint Notice to mgt is also proposed.
AIIEA has advised its units to organise/join/participate in local meetings of unions/associations with the sole view of taking the movement forward to secure a respectable wage settlement. Hope that should be the spirit of all.
J Gurumurthy
Secretary, AIIEA
March 16, 2010
All the employees of PS GIC companies are requested to mobilise the employees towards strike programmes to reach our voice with echo to higher authorities to resolve the long pending wage revivision without any conditionalities.
Rama Sarma SVS, General Secretary, VRGIEA
Rama Sarma SVS, General Secretary, VRGIEA
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