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CAMEROON- SEMINAR HELD SUCCESSFULLY BY WFTU AFFILIATES HONOURING 70TH ANNIVERSARY.

 

 

The affiliates and friends of WFTU in Cameroon organized with great success a seminar, on the New Technologies honoring the 70th Anniversary of WFTU.

In the Seminar took part a WFTU Delegation composed by Nicola Ghiokas, Responsible for the WFTU Offices in Geneva and George Bazionis, Communication Officer of WFTU  Central Offices.

The WFTU delegation had the opportunity to visit the Offices of the affiliated Organizations, hold a meeting with the Director of ILO in Yaounde and gave an interview on the Radio of Cameroon.

CHENNAI FLOOD SITUATION SLIGHTLY IMPROVES.

wheelchair chennai rainfall

Torrential rain for the last few days in Chennai has already cost 450 precious lives. People are stranded and isolated without electricity, telephone both landline and mobile due to the flood. As usual poor are the worst affected as they had to vacate from their makeshift shelters and some of the families are also stranded and starving. Patients are being shifted to safer places as the hospitals are flooded.

Rescue and relief operations are undertaken by the army,navy disaster management forum and many NGOs. However it is reported that the state machinery of Tamil Nadu utterly failed to extend help to the needy and even coordinating the relief operations of those actively participating. It is also a shame on the ruling party,AIADMK to insist the NGOs to paste Jayalalitha’s sticker on the food packets supplied by the NGOs.

Now,the flood situation is slowly improving as the rain has stopped for some time.

Reception to senior comrades of BSNLEU

BSNLEU Circle Conference of Kerala being held at Kozhikode gave a befitting Reception to its senior leaders, who were office bearers of the All India and Circle Unions. Coms. R. Muralidharan Nair, former AGS, Circle Office bearers Com. M.N.Madhavan, M.K.Lalalji, V.S.Sreekumaran Nair, A.N.Rajan and P.Ganesan were honoured.  Com. P.V.Chandrasekharan, veteran leader, presided. Com.S.Pratap Kumar, Asst. General Secretary welcomed all. Com.V.V.Dakshinamoorthy, Chief Editor, Deshabhimani, inaugurated and presented the mementos. Com.V.A.N. Namboodiri, Patron greeted the retired Comrades. The retired comrades replied suitably. It was an inspiring session. Com.A. Purushothaman proposed vote of thanks.

bsnleu kerala circle conference concluded.

The 8th Circle Conference of BSNLEU ,Kerala was concluded on 4th December,2015 with election of office bearers and adopting resolutions on important issues.

Coms. A.V.Kuriakose, K.Mohan and S Prathapkumar have been reelected President, Secretary and Treasurer respectively.

An amount of Rs.40000 collected spontaneously from the delegates for flood affected Chennai people was handed over to Com.P.Abhimanyu, General Secretary.

WFTU WORKSHOP ON ” ONE BELT,ONE ROAD STRATEGY AND UNION CAPACITY BUILDING” IN CHINA.

The first day of ACFTU – WFTU workshop on ” One belt,one road strategy and union capacity building” is taking place in Beijing,China today December 1st,2015. WFTU affiliates and friends from Benin, Bulgaria, Ethiopia, Greece, Indonesia, Iran, Namimbia, Nepal, Pakistan,Rwanda, Togo, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe are participating the seminar

SRI LANKA- MASSIVE DEMONSTRATION OF HOTEL WORKERS IN FRONT OF MINISTRY OF TOURISM- A WFTU REPORT

The Hotel Workers Center of Inter Company Employees Union held a massive demonstration in front of the Ministry of Tourism, demanding to solve the initial problems of the Hotel Workers in Sri Lanka. The workers voiced against the splitting of shifts, unfair charges for breakages and not implementing a transparent system in paying the Service Charges. The workers urged the Minister of Tourism to bring legislation to add the service charges to the basic salary. The Hotel Workers Center alleged that the newly elected government also works not for the better future of general public but for the betterment of the few employers.

NEW BRANCHES UNDER DISTRICTS FORMED IN WEST BENGAL.

Two new branches under Kharagpur District and one new branch under Kolkata District have been formed.

CONTAI BRANCH.

A well attended convention of pensioners was held at Contai in Kharagpur District on 22-11-2015 which was controlled by a presidium of Coms.B.N.Gayen and Umakanta Nayak.Com.Susanta Ghosh, Circle Secretary inaugurated the convention. Coms.R.P.Gunchhait, Convenor, Anupam Saha, District Secretary, AIBDPA, Pankaj Jana, District Secretary, BSNLEU, Amalesh Pradhan, Branch Secretary, BSNLEU addressed the convention. New Branch unit was formed and office bearers were elected with Com.B.N.Gayen (President) Com.R.P.Guchhait (Secretary) and Com.Badal Malakar (Treasurer)

MIDNAPUR BRANCH.

Midnapur Branch under KKharagpur District was formed in the meeting held on 29-11-2015 . A presidium of Coms.Phanibhushan Das and Chittaranjan Patra conducted the proceedings. Com. Susanta Ghosh, Circle Secretary inaugurated with an elaborate speech. Coms.Pijush Chakraborty, ACS, Anupam Saha, DS, Swapan Pal, DS,BSNLEU, Sanjib Debnath, DS,CMU, Soumen Kundu, BS,BSNLEU and T.S.Mondal, BS,CMU addressed. Office bearers elected unanimously with Com.Phanibhushan Das (President), Com.Gopal Chandra Mondal (Secretary) and Com.Aravinda Sasmal (Treasurer)

HOOGLY BRANCH.

A meeting of pensioners was held at Tarakeshwar in Kolkata District on 25-11-2015 to form the new branch . Com.Robin Mitra presided over the meeting. Com.Pankaj Saha, ACS inaugurated the meeting.Coms.Ajith Nandan, DS,, D.Dasbakshi, ADS, Susanta Chattopadhyay and Madan Roy spoke. The new branch was formed and Coms. Asok Kolay, Robin Mondal and Madan Roy were elcted unanimously as President,Secretary and Treasurer respectively.

No proposal for disinvestment in BSNL – Minister OF Communications informs Parliament.

 

Shri Ravi  Shankar Prasad, Minister of Communications and IT, informed Parliament that government has no plan for  disinvestment in BSNL. The Minister, in a written reply                       given to a question raised in the Parliament, has stated  that government has no plan for disinvestment in BSNL and  MTNL, as a part of the revival plan. (MTNL is already                       disinvest upto 46% as on date) The Minister has also  informed that BSNL has already started showing positive  results in the matter of revival. He has further stated   that BSNL has allocated Rs.7,795 crore for expansion works during the financial year 2015-16

THE 8TH KERALA CIRCLE CONFERENCE OF BSNLEU AT KOZHIKODE.

The 8th Circle Conference of BSNLEU,Kerala is being held at Kozhikode from 2 to 4,December,2015 at Kozhikode. The Conference was inaugurated by Com.A.K.Padmanabhan, President, CITU at 1030AM on 2nd December at Com.S.K.Vyas Nagar(Tagore Centenary Hall). In his elaborate speech,Com.A.K.P covered the current issues being faced by the workers and the people at large. Com.A.V.Kuriakose, Circle President presided. Shri.L.Anantharam,CGM,Kerala was the Chief Guest.  Coms. M.V.Govindn Master, Com.P.H.M.Isamil,Com.M.Krishnan, Com.V.A.N.Namboodiri, Com.K.G.jayaraj, Com.C.J.Nandakumar, Com.George Varghese and Com.M.Kunhikrishnan addressed the inaugural session representing various organisations.

In the afternoon on 2nd, a send off meeting was held, presided over by Com.P.V.Chandrasekharan and inaugurated by Com.V.V.Dakshina Moorthy. Com.P.Rajeev inaugurated the cultural meeting late in the evening.

Com.P.Abhimanyu, General Secretary inaugurated the subject session at 0930AM on 3rd December with a detailed speech on the issues and the efforts being taken by the CHQ to resolve. A Women’s session was held in the afternoon followed by a trade union convention which was inaugurated by Com.Elamaram Karim,State Secretary, CITU and addressed by various leaders of sister organisations,including Com.N.Guruprasad, Circle Secretary, AIBDPA. In the evening an impressive rally and a public meeting were also held.

The conference will conclude on 4th December, 2015.

options for pre 2006 pensioners recommended by 7th pay commission.

 

While making either retrograde recommendations on many issues and perpetuation of 6th CPC recommendations on a number of issues, there is some relief to Pre-2006 Pensioners in the matter of fixation of pension. Many pre-2006 pensioners are requesting CHQ to give details of this recommendation.
The 7th CPC has recommended two options as follows:
1. Like all others they can opt for fixation by multiplication of their existing basic pension (including commuted pension) by 2.57 factor. For example if the basic pension to a pre-1996 pensioner retired in pay scale 3000-4500 (and drawn 9 increments in that scale before retirement) was fixed under 4th CPC as Rs.1940/-; and prefixed from 1.1.2006 as Rs.12543/-; then now by multiplying this basic pension 12543 X2.57 = 32,236/- as new basic pension w.e.f 1.1.2016.
2. Option 2: The present minimum of pay scale corresponding to 4th CPC pay scale of 3000-4500 is 67,700. Add 9 increments notionally to this @ 3%x 9=27% that comes to 20,700/- to a total of Rs.88,400 notionally; 50% of this notional pay is 44,200/-; The pre-2006 pensioner can opt for this amount of 44,200/- as new basic pension from 1.1.2016.
This recommendation of adding the number of increments earned in the pay scale before retirement of a pre-2006 pensioner is more or less like the increments being added to Armed Forces Pensioners under OROP system; Definitely an improvement formula to pre-2006 pensioners. Only thing short of full parity between past and future pensioner is the denial to grant the benefit of any upgraded pay scale granted to the same cadre by successive pay commissions.