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(A Coordinating Body of National Federation of RRB Officers
& National Federation of RRB Employees)
Adviser: Ajit Kumar
Ghosh
President: C. Rajeevan
Secretary General: A. Sayeed 1 Nazrul Islam Avenue VIP ROAD
Circular
No. 52 Date:
- 09-10-2014
To
All Units/State
Federations/C.C. Members/
Office Bearers/ All
others concerned
Dear comrades,
Sub: - National Convention of Workers
held on 15-09-2014 at New Delhi – call of NATIONAL
PROTEST DAY ON
05-12-2014
Our leaders Com Shiv Karan Dwivedi and
Com Banwari Lal attended the above Cxonvention on behalf of the AIRRBEA.
We reproduce below the text of the
declaration adopted from the Convention on 15-09-2014 for your perusal, wide
circulation and implementation of the programmes jointly with fraternal Trade
Unions as far as possible.
With greetings
Comradely yours
(A Sayeed Khan)
Secretary General
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NATIONAL CONVENTION OF WORKERS
15th September 2014, NEW
DELHI
DECLARATION - NATIONAL PROTEST DAY on 5th December, 2014
This National
Convention of Workers being held under the banner of joint platform of all
the Central Trade Unions of the country along with independent national
federations/organizations from all the sectors and service establishments
expresses deep concern at the unilateral move to amend the labour laws by a
number of state governments and by the Central Govt. Most of the amendments
sought to be done will have serious negative impact on the working conditions
including trade union rights of the workers and the employees. It is
unfortunate that in spite of the assurance given by the Labour Minister that
Central Trade Unions will be consulted, these amendments in labour laws are
being pushed through without any consultations with them.
The amendments
passed by Rajasthan Assembly on 31st July, 2014 in Industrial
Disputes Act, Factories Act, Contract Labour (Regulation & Abolition) Act
and Apprenticeship Act will make hire and fire much easier for the employers
and will result in rampant casualisation of employment. Liberalising the
provisions of Factories Act will imperil the safety at work place in small
and medium scale enterprises and will push majority of factories out of its
coverage. Similarly raising the threshold employment ceiling of 20 to 50
workers for registration of contractors will be principal employer and
contractor to become unaccountable for service conditions of the workers in a
large number of enterprises. It is unfortunate that the Govt. being model
employer deploys the largest number of contract workers and thereby depriving
them of the security of job, wage and social security benefits.
The amendment
Bills already introduced in Parliament by the Central Govt on Factories Act,
Labour Laws (Exemption from Furnishing Returns and Maintaining Registers for
certain Establishments) Act and Apprentices Act are also designed to bring
about such changes which will adversely affect the service conditions of the
workers throwing overwhelming majority of them out of the coverage of all
basic labour laws. The Factories Act
Amendment Bill introduced in Lok Sabha on 7th August 2014 further
liberalises the coverage of factories under the Act as amendment proposed in
definition of factories (Section 2m) authorizes States to fix number of
workers for coverage under the Act. This will legitimize amendment already
passed by Rajasthan Assembly on 31st July, 2014. The Central
Govt. is also considering amendments in Minimum Wages Act and Industrial
Disputes Act. The amendment to Apprenticeship Act will pave the way for
replacement of the contract/casual/temporary workers and even regular workers
by comparatively low paid apprentices. Moreover, these amendments will
straightway empower and encourage the state governments to bring about
pro-employer changes in labour laws as per the Rajasthan model. The process
of amendments in labour laws is also aimed to do away with tripartite
consultation mechanism.
In essence, all
moves of amendments in the labour laws, both by the central government and by
the Govt in Rajasthan are aimed at empowering the employers to retrench/lay
of workers or declare closure/shut down at will and also resort to mass scale
contractorisation. These are also designed to push out more than seventy per
cent of the industrial and service establishments in the country and their
workers out of the purview of almost all labour laws, thereby allowing the
employers a free hand to further squeeze and exploit the workers.
The Convention
also expressed dismay over the Govt’s total inaction in implementing the
consensus recommendations of 43rd, 44th and 45th
Indian Labour Conferences on formulation of minimum wages, same wage and
benefits as regular workers for the contract workers and granting status of
workers with attendant benefits to those employed in various central govt
schemes. It is also noted with utter dismay that the present government is
also continuing to ignore the ten point demands of entire trade union
movement pertaining to concrete action to be taken for containing price-rise
and aggravating unemployment situation, for strict implementation of labour
laws, halting mass scale unlawful contractorisation, ensuring minimum wages
for all of not less than Rs 15000 per month and universal social security
benefits and pension for all including the unorganized sector workers etc.
the demands also include compulsory registration of Trade Unions within 45
days and ratification of ILO Conventions 87 and 98.
The National
Convention also denounced the retrograde move of the Govt in hiking/allowing
FDI in Defence sector, Insurance, Railways and other sectors and also its
aggressive move for disinvestment in PSUs including financial sector which
will be detrimental to the interests of the national economy, national
security as well as mass of the common people.
The Convention
demands upon the Rajasthan Govt. to reverse the enacted amendments to the
labour laws and urge upon the Central Govt. to desist from its unilateral
move to amend labour laws and consult and honour the views of Central Trade
Unions on the issue. The Convention also demands immediate steps to implement
the consensus recommendations of successive Indian Labour Conference and also
positive response to long pending ten-point demands of the entire trade union
movement of the country. The Convention urges the Central Govt to desist from
mindless drive to liberalise FDI in defence, insurance, Railways etc and
instead reverse the direction of the ongoing economic policy regime which has
landed the entire national economy in distress and decline affecting the
working people most.
The Convention calls upon all the trade unions,
federations across the sector to widen and consolidate the unity at the
grass-root level and prepare for countrywide united movement to halt and
resist the brazen anti-worker and anti-people policies of the Govt and in
preparation to the same undertakes unanimously the following programmes:
1. State level joint conventions during
September-October; wherever possible initiative may be taken to hold
district-level and industry-level joint conventions
2. National
Protest Day 5.12.2014 through massive joint demonstration in all state
capitals. At Delhi Joint demonstration of workers from the neighbouring state
will be held.
The National
Convention calls upon the trade unions and working people irrespective of
affiliations to unite and make the above programme a massive success paving
way for countrywide united struggle to resist the onslaught on the life and
livelihood of working people throughout the country.
BMS INTUC AITUC HMS CITU
AIUTUC TUCC SEWA AICCTU UTUC LPF
And All India Federations of Banks, Insurance,
Defence, Railways, Central/State
Govt. Employees and other Service Establishments
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