Com.K.G.Jayaraj, General Secretary has returned to Alappuzha on 01-07-2016 after being at CHQ for the last ten days. This time, though the period was short he had a hectic schedule and participated in some important events. He attended the National Secretariat meeting of NCCPA held on 27-06-2016,.He along with Com.V.A.N.Namboodiri met some of the top officers like Member (Finance),, DDG (Estt), Director (Estt) at DoT , Direcotr (HR) , CGMT, NTR, GM (Estt), GM (QA) Delhi at BSNL and successfully pursued some of the important issues of the pensioners.
SNEA has flashed the news that the cabinet has taken up the issue of 78.2% and is reported to have deferred seeking further clarification/information. The cabinet note contains not only the 78.2% merger to BSNL pensioners but also the proposal for waiving the 60.40 formula. The authenticity of the report is yet to be known so also the details.
BSNL has issued orders bifurcating AP Circle in to AP and Telangana Circles on the basis of AP and Telangana states. The CGM office staff has been asked to give options.
The biggest circle in BSNL has now been divided in to two.
AP circle branch also has to be bifurcated.
DRAFT RESOLUTION TO BE ADOPTED IN THE PROTEST MEETINGS OF NCCPA AFFILIATES & UNITS ON 30.06.2016
Com. V. A. N. Namboodiri, Advisor and Com. K. G. Jayaraj, General Secretary have met Ms. Sujata Ray, Director (HR), BSNL today,the 30-06-2016, and discussed the issues contained in the Charter of Demands formulated by the Tirupati AIC which could be settled at BSNL level. The representatives focused the following four issues.
1. Restoration of quarterly medical allowance to the BSNL pensioners.
2. Reducing of rent for the quarters allotted to the retirees.
3. Extension of broadband concession to DoT pensioners.
4. Anomaly in pension due to point to point fixation; seniors drawing less than juniors.
Regarding the restoration of quarterly medical allowance, the Director stated that it is under serious consideration.
As for the other issues she assured to have a detailed discussion on 4th July, as she has to attend the management committee meeting today.
According to the Consumer Price Index released by the Labour Bureau, the IDA will increase by 2.4% from 01-07-2016. and the total IDA 114.8%.
It may be remembered that there was no increase of IDA from 01-04-2016 and it was the same 112.4% being drawn from 01-01-2016.
NCCPA has called upon all affiliates to organise immediate protest demonstration condemning the decisions of cabinet to reject basic modifications sought in VII CPC report by CG Employees and Pensioners. Even OPtion No.1 of pension refixation recommended by VII CPC is not accepted but referred to committee. Statement by NCCPA is under issue.
KKN Kutty, Secretary General NCCPA.
Dear Comrades, Please organise demonstration on 30th June itself with maximum participation. K.G.Jayaraj, GS, AIBDPA
The central government has released its decision on the recommendations of the 7th Pay Commission. It is nothing short of the mountain delivering a rat. The Joint Action Committee of central government employees and also the pensioners organisations including AIBDPA and NCCPA had termed the recommendations disappointing and retrograde. They had sought some reasonable modifications and had declared an indefinite strike from July 11, 2016 if the demands are not conceded. But the government did not take any initiative to have a bilateral discussion with the NJCA. The discussion held with the Cabinet Secretary was futile as the Cabinet Secretary remained non committal on all the issues. But the media hype was very active and so many rumours were spread that the minimum pay recommended may be enhanced from Rs. 18,000 to Rs.22,000 so that the fitment rate be increased from 2.57 to 3.
But with the declaration of the government all such expectations are shattered.
There is no increase in the minimum pay and the fitment.
It is yet to be known whether the option I which ensures pension parity to the pensioners to a certain extent is accepted or not.
So from the initial reports it seems that the government completely ignored the demands of the NJCA and opted for a show down.
The NJCA is meeting at 4PM on 30-06-2016 and after assessing the overall situation will take appropriate decision.
Dear fellows,
The TUI of P&R of the World Federation of Trade Unions and Retired Employees Association Nepal (REAN), these last in its condition of host, invite all the P&R in their trade unions and/or the class organizations to participate in the Asian and Oceanian´s Regional Conference of the TUI of Pensioners and Retirees, that will take place in Kathmandu, Nepal, December 3rd. 2016 (arrival at Kathmandu´s airport on the 2th of December, and departure on the December 4th), in order to create and establish the Regional Structure of Asia and Oceania of the TUI of Pensioners and Retirees (P&R) of the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU).
The creation of this regional structure of the TUI of P&R of the WFTU is included in the Statutes of this TUI that were approved in the foundational Congress celebrated in Barcelona (February 2014), and it shows the ascendancy of the class oriented trade unions’ movement, and it emphasizes the positive direction of the WFTU and of Asian and Oceanian’s Pensioners and Retirees.
Today we live in a period of profound crisis of the capitalist system. The capital and the capitalist governments try to put the load of this crisis on the backs of the workers and on the back of the peoples, a fact with a disastrous impact for all the workers of every sector, but also for the P&R. The Pensioners and Retirees see their pensions and their rights diminish, see how their lives and the lives of their children are continually deteriorating. The P&R of all Asia and Oceania have to act with the proletarian internationalism that characterizes the WFTU, and have to fight so the right to a public pension that allows us to live with dignity becomes a reality anywhere in our continent. We are going to fight for the reinforcement of free health and free medicines, for a public and free social security, for public and worthy pensions.
Every organization that confirms its participation will receive a schedule with the details of its participation in the Conference. As in every international event organized by the WFTU (the only world trade union organization that doesn´t receives any funds or subsidies from any government), every participant will pay for its own trip. The lodging of one (1) delegate and the meals of this delegate for two (2) days will be provided by the hosts. Supplementary delegates will be accepted if they pay for the cost of their lodging and meals while in Nepal. Due to the financial difficulties, we ask, from those participants who can afford it, to pay for their stay in Kathmandu, as a token of internationalist solidarity.
Those delegates who need a visa to enter in Nepal must inform, during the month of October 2016 as the latest, of their names and their post of responsibility in their Trade Union, so the organizers can send them the personal invitation letter from Nepal with time enough.
Dear fellows, we invite you to participate in the Asian and Oceanian’s Regional Conference of the TUI of P&R and to cooperate with your participation and proposals so this is a success of class oriented Trade Unions.
