diamond jubilee and task ahead
One year long nationwide
Diamond Jubilee Celebrations of National Federation of Postal Employees (NFPE)
which commenced on 24th November 2013 at New Delhi is coming to a grand finish
on 23rd and 24th November 2014 at Dwarka (Gujarat). NFPE has already celebrated the Golden
Jubilee of Postal Trade Union movement in the year 2004 at Thiruvananthapuram,
marking the 100th year of establishing “Postal Club” at Kolkata
by Late Com. Babu Tarapada Mukherjee, the founder father of Postal Trade Union,
which was later on converted by him as All India Postal and RMS Employees
Union. NFPTE was formed on 24th November
1954, in a massive convention held at Vinay Nagar, New Delhi. After bi-furcation of Postal and Telecom, the
name of Postal Federation is changed as NFPE.
When we celebrate 60th year
of our glorious organisation, we should pledge to re-dedicate ourselves not
only for fighting for the cause of five lakhs Postal and RMS employees
including Gramin Dak Sevaks but also for the cause of entire Central Government
employees and the suffering masses of our country and the world.
We should inherit the legacy
of our great leaders and follow their footsteps - their dedication, commitment,
sacrifice, knowledge, militancy, courage, honesty, concern and respect for the
fellow workers and seniors, giving topmost priority to individual grievances,
democratic and transparent functioning, oraganisational discipline, building up
trade union consciousness, social consciousness, political consciousness and
above all class consciousness.
We have been fighting against
the neo-liberal policies of the Government, right from its beginning from 1991
onwards. We conducted many heroic
struggle against downsizing, outsourcing, contractorisation and privatization. We succeeded in compelling the Government to
lift the ban on recruitment and filling up of all vacancies, we succeeded in
preventing the Government from implementing its order for closure of 9797 Post
offices, we succeeded in halting Mckinsey recommendations and Mail Network
Optimisation Project (MNOP) for closure of about 300 RMS Offices. We could successfully prevent the Government
from amending the Indian Post Office Act and giving license to multi-national
courier services. Our fight for
emancipation of three lakhs Gramin Dak Sevaks has not yet reached its
finality. We have to complete our
unfinished task.
Seventh Central Pay
Commission has commenced its work. Our
demands for DA merger, Interim Relief, Inclusion of GDS under 7th CPC,
date of effect from 01-01-2014, scrapping of new
pension scheme, parity in pension etc. are still pending. Government, whether it is UPA or NDA, is
totally negative to our genuine demands.
Our struggle under the banner of NFPE and Confederation of Central
Government Employees and Workers is to be further intensified.
Eventhough we have submitted
detailed memorandum to 7th CPC for better wages and service conditions, neither
the 7th CPC nor the Government shall concede our
demands, unless we mobilize the workers at all levels in a serious and
determined manner and create sanction behind our demands.
Thus the message of Diamond
Jubilee of NFPE is loud and clear. We
have to continue our struggle against the anti-labour, anti-people policies of
the Government, we has to fight against the neo-liberal reforms in the Central
Government employees sector, we have to conduct bigger form of trade union
action including indefinite strike for realization of the demands of the
Central Government employees and Postal employees including Gramin Dak
Sevaks. We shall not rest till the
dreams of our founder leaders are fulfilled.
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