Tuesday, 28 July 2020
Saturday, 25 July 2020
To,
Sri Narendra Modi Ji,
Hon'ble Prime Minister,
Govt. Of India,
New Delhi.
Through……………………….
………………………….
Respected Sir,
On the call of Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh,”Sarkar Jagao - Sramik - Udyog Bachao”
week is organizing all over India. In this continuation Bharatiya Postal
Employees Federation (the Industrial Unit of B.M.S) and it's affiliated unions
are also organizing day long demonstration in all it's units all over India on
27/7/2020.
The following demands
are submitted for your kind consideration.
CHARTER OF DEMANDS
Bharatiya Mazdoor Singh Demands:
1.Pathetic
situation of Migrant workers and livelihood of unorganized workers: Migrant workers
amounting to nearly 8 to 11 crores are the most exploited workers. Wherever
they are not properly treated, not given sufficient wages and work, not camped
properly, they are going back to their villages where they get love and
recognition. Now giving jobs and income are big challenges for the sending
states. Similarly, the entire Un-Organised sector workers forming 93% of the
total workforce are facing problems. Every issue related to labour should be
consulted in tripartite fora to find solutions. Food security should be ensured
for every worker.
2.Payment
of Wages: It is a major issue. We appreciate that many good employers have
paid wages during March, April and May. But, even though MHA had ordered
payment, many employers have refused to pay wages who in fact had accumulated
profits in the previous years out of the sweat and toil of the workers. So they
have a moral duty to pay considering workers as members of an extended family.
Tiny, micro and small enterprises shall be asked to pay wages in time and it
should immediately be reimbursed by the Government as wage subsidy.
3. Huge Job Loses: Many firms have not
opened and many have started working with fewer workers; so the country is
facing large job losses. All those who think about the development of the
nation should work together and bring industrial activities to normalcy so that
everyone gets back his job.
4.
Labour Law Changes:
Suspension of Labour laws in three states, compulsory forfeiting of the salary
of Government employees including health workers in many states, increase of
working hours from 8 to 12 hours in nearly 15 states are examples. Industry and
labour should go together, thinking otherwise are detrimental to the nation.
The Government should desist from any anti-worker amendment in labour laws in
the name of shifting of companies from China or other countries.
5. Unbridled
Privatization:
Public Sector in India had played a great role and is still playing which, we
have seen during corona-19 days. It is highly deplorable that highly profitable
sectors are now kept for sale. It is also factually wrong that on a whole PSUs
are loss-making. The government should respect PSUs and the employees working
there who are the forefront warriors in saving the nation from the pandemic,
whereas the private sectors were either hesitant or paralyzed.
Government
Employees National Confederation / Bharatiya Postal Employees Federation
Demands :
1.
Fill- up all the vacant post of the
Department.
2.
Release D.A for Regular & Retired
employees .immediately due to Corona
crisis.
3.
Make provision of roster duty in badly
effected area with corona like Mumbai, Pune, Kolkata & Delhi & ensure
proper sanitization and supply of
gloves, Musk, facecover.
4.
Fill up all the HSG-I, HSG-II vacant post immediately.
5. Complete
the cadre restructuring for rest of the
cadre i.e sorting assistant of RMS , postal
assistant of SBCO / RO , postman/
MTS . Restructuring of all the cadres of Postal Accounts, Postal Civil Division
with up- gradation of pay scale.
6. Consider important suggestions of BPEA/ BPEF
in respect of new recruitment rules of PA/SA cadre to be finalized in DOP.
Amend the impuged recruitment rule of AAO Cadre as suggestion by BPAOEA.
7. Stop decentralization of works of postal
Accounts immediately.
8. Stop
displacement of subdivisions/Divisions/ circles of PSED IN DOP .
9. Ensure
100% (cent percent) compassionate appointment.
10.
Payment of OSA arrear immediately as the
order was published since last 6 months.
11.
Ensure strong network to all S.Os for smooth
functioning of postal works especially in MP, UP, Maharashtra, WB and
Jharkhand.
Secretary
Friday, 24 July 2020
Wednesday, 22 July 2020
Dear Brothers / Sisrers
you know the foundation day of BMS is 23rd July Due to COVID 19 & picarious condition of Delhi area it is not possible to make the ceremony at BPEF HQ NewDelhi All Circle Secretaries are requested to celebrate the foundation day in their Circle Similarly they will advise their Divisional Secretaries & Branch Secretaries to make the ceremony in their Division & Branches Further Circle Secretaries are requested to send celebration photos to Federation directly for exhibition in BPEF Website.
S.K. Singh
Secretary General -BPEF
Sunday, 19 July 2020
Thursday, 16 July 2020
It is requested to all Circle Secretaries to kindly orgnize online meeting with your Divisional Secretaries for making grand success Dharna of 27th July-2020.
Please follow all the guide lines of Covid 19 issued by the Government like social distancing, use mask & sanitizer during Dharna demonstration.
Poster Dharna All Divisional Office dated 27-7-2020
Wednesday, 15 July 2020
Friday, 10 July 2020
Thursday, 9 July 2020
District/Union Letter pad)
Memorandum
To,
Sri
MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT
Govt. of India
New Delhi
Sub: MEMORANDUM SUBMITTED THROUGH MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT BY BHARATIYA MAZDOOR SANGH
Sadar Namaskar,
We came to know that you are relentlessly working for the people of your Constituency amidst the dreaded Covid-19. We hope you are doing well and in good health.
We would like to bring to your kind notice that India is passing through a critical situation which requires that the Government, trade unions, industrial organizations, political parties, social organizations etc. should work together for the revival and recovery from the crisis. But unfortunately, some of the issues related to labour has been spoiled due to the wrong policies of both Central and various State Governments. Bhartiya Mazdoor Sangh, the largest National Trade Union of India, was compelled to go for nationwide protest program on the following issues like:
1. Pathetic situation of Migrant workers and livelihood of unorganized workers: Migrant workers amounting to nearly 8 to 11 crores are the most exploited workers. Wherever they are not properly treated, not given sufficient wages and work, not camped properly, they are going back to their villages where they get love and recognition. Now giving jobs and income are big challenges for the sending states. Similarly, the entire Un-Organised sector workers forming 93% of the total workforce are facing problems. Every issue related to labour should be consulted in tripartite fora to find solutions. Food security should be ensured for every worker.
2. Payment of Wages: It is a major issue. We appreciate that many good employers have paid wages during March, April and May. But, even though MHA had ordered payment, many employers have refused to pay wages who in fact had accumulated profits in the previous years out of the sweat and toil of the workers. So they have a moral duty to pay considering workers as members of an extended family. Tiny, micro and small enterprises shall be asked to pay wages in time and it should immediately be reimbursed by the Government as wage subsidy.
3. Huge Job Loses: Many firms have not opened and many have started working with fewer workers; so the country is facing large job losses. All those who think about the development of the nation should work together and bring industrial activities to normalcy so that everyone gets back his job.
4. Labour Law Changes: Suspension of Labour laws in three states, compulsory forfeiting of the salary of Government employees including health workers in many states, increase of working hours from 8 to 12 hours in nearly 15 states are examples. Industry and labour should go together, thinking otherwise are detrimental to the nation. The Government should desist from any anti-worker amendment in labour laws in the name of shifting of companies from China or other countries.
5. Unbridled Privatization: Public Sector in India had played a great role and is still playing which, we have seen during corona days. It is highly deplorable that highly profitable sectors are now kept for sale. It is also factually wrong that on a whole PSUs are loss-making. The government should respect PSUs and the employees working there who are the forefront warriors in saving the nation from the pandemic, whereas the private sectors were either hesitant or paralyzed.
We had welcomed the stimulus package of 20 lakh rupees as well as the concept of Atma Nirbhar Bharat saying workers, farmers and small industries as three pillars of India’s economic development. We are in support of whatever good things done by the Government.
BMS had time to time given good suggestions to the Government, but the Government is not ready to have a social dialogue with trade unions even though the online mechanism, except two meetings held by the labour ministry. Such discussions used to take place frequently in the past.
Hence, we request you as a Member of Parliament who has done valuable service to the people, to persuade the Government to work to improve the conditions of the labour and not to indulge in wrong practices against the interest of the workers.
Thanking you.
District Secretary/ Union Secretary
NOTE: Give a separate Supplementary Memorandum on Industry /State /Sector-specific issues if any
Wednesday, 1 July 2020
Wednesday, 24 June 2020
"श्रृद्धांजली"
बड़े दुःख के साथ यह अवगत कराना पड़ रहा है कि भारतीय डाक कर्मचारी महासंघ के वरिष्ठ कार्यकर्ता एवं भारतीय डाक कर्मचारी संघ वर्ग -३ के राष्ट्रीय महामंत्री श्री एम एस चंदेल जी की वयोवृद्ध पूज्यनीय माताजी दिनांक 24 जून 2020 सायं 4 बजे लंबी बीमारी के बाद ब्रंहलीन हो गयी। उनकी उम्र काफी अधिक थी एवं विगत कुछ दिनों से वे बीमार चल रही थी। उनकी बीमारी के कारण श्री चंदेल जी निरंतर घर पर रहकर संघीय जिम्मेदारियो के साथ साथ पुत्र धर्म का भी निर्वाह कर रहे थे। कल ही हमारी श्री चंदेल जी से पूज्यनीय माता जी की बीमारी को लेकर लंबी वार्ता हुई थी।
भारतीय डाक कर्मचारी महासंघ की ओर से हम ब्रह्मलीन महान आत्मा की शांति एवं प्रभु उन्हें अपने श्री चरणो मे स्थान दें तथा शोकाकुल परिवार को इस कष्ट को सहन करने की शक्ति प्रदान करें, ईश्वर से प्रार्थना करते है।
ॐ शांति शांति
समस्त बी . पी. ई. एफ. परिवार
Monday, 8 June 2020
MEMORANDUM TO HON'BLE PRIM E MINISTER OF INDIA
Dated : 10th
June, 2020
To
Shri Narendra Damodardas Modi Ji,
Hon’ble Prime Minister of India,
New Delhi
Through: Respective Head
of the Division/ Unit
Sub: In the
interest of the development of the nation a “DHARNA by all the Bharatiya
Mazdoor Sangh affiliated Public Sector unions” on 10.06.2020 with the objective
of “Save Public Sectors, Save India” against Government of India’s
irrational decision of privatisation; disinvestment; corporatization of Defence
Ordinance Factories Board and Manufacturing units of Railway; Strategic sale of
PSUs; increasing FDI cap; merger of PSUs, banks/insurance; commercialization of
coal sector; anti-worker changes in labour laws etc.
Respected Sir,
At the outset, we wish to compliment your leadership
in context of handling most of the situations during COVID-19. However, being a
part of nation’s largest and most responsible trade union, we do not agree with
some of your decisions in regard with the valuable national assets of the
country i.e. Public Sectors that have been taken lately or are being taken now.
Although, we believed that unlike your predecessor governments, you and your
government will not become a mere pawn of bureaucrats or advisors with vested
interests and will not fulfil their silent campaign of anti-public sectors but
it seems to be a misconception.
It is pertinent to mention here that as always, we
being part of a non-political and nationalist trade union, have been given our
contribution/ support to the government in every possible manner during this
time of crises. As you are already aware that the philosophy of BMS is
“Responsive Cooperation”, we did not wish to take any strong step rather preferred
to resolve the issues by the means of talks. In this regard, we one-sided tried
to approach you and your ministers many times but now we have realised that the
government is in no temperament to work for the worker of the country, hence
there is no choice left with us but to agitate and fight to safeguard our
rights.
Hence, we would like to submit that Public Sector
National Coordination Committee of Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS),
comprising of sectors viz.
Coal,
Non-Coal, Mining, Banking, Insurance, Steel, Shipping, Port & Dock,
Railways, Defence, Postal and Public Sector Employees National Confederation (comprising
of Telecom, Oil & Gas, Power, Aviation, Coins & Currency, FCI, NHPC,
Power Grid, GAIL, BHE, NALCO, NLC, HAL, HMT, BEL, ITI, BDL, ALIMCO, Balmer
Lawrie, HNL, FACT, IREL, ECIL, NEEPCO, THDC, Instrumentation, BSNL/MTNL, NTPC,
Mother Dairy, ITDC and other Sectors)
),
convened
a meeting on 03.06.2020. In this meeting, it was decided that we will protest
in consolidation, against the baseless decisions of Government of India viz. privatisation,
disinvestment, corporatization of Defence - Ordinance Factories Board,
Strategic sale of PSUs, increasing FDI cap, merger of PSUs, banks/insurance,
commercialization of coal sector, anti-worker changes in labour laws etc.
As decided, we are to hold a day-long nationwide “DHARNA by all the
affiliated unions of above-mentioned Federations at their respective location”
on 10.06.2020 with the objective of “Save Public Sectors, Save India”.
It is
a normal phenomenon that one has the sole right to continue or discontinue only
those, which are being started by oneself. Although, when it comes to
discontinuing any past practise, any reasonable government shall do an analysis
before taking such drastic decisions. The rich history of the struggle, survival,
contribution, self-reliance and long service to the nation of these public
sectors, which are being nourished by the sweat of so many generations has not
been taken into the account while taking such brutal decisions. These sectors
were started after independence with the aim to make India self-reliant, it
seems to be a crude irony that today even after more than 70 years of
independence, when the Prime Minister of India talks about making India
self-reliant, he takes the decision of subsiding one of the strongest pillars
of the development of the country i.e. Public Sectors. It is a known fact that
the Central Public Sector Undertakings have proven themselves as the backbone
of the country by constructively and tirelessly contributing in the
infrastructure growth, supplying essential services to masses, providing
strategic support to defence sector and providing uninterrupted supply of
energy across the country.
While
keeping in account the several references of the contribution of PSUs in the
past calamities, we wish to bring your notice to the selfless service provided
by these Public Sectors once again during the current difficult time faced by
the country. When you appealed the whole country to switch-off the lights to
pay gratitude towards the COVID-19 warriors, Power Grid worked at double-pace
to avoid any sort of instability due to sudden power-off nationwide or
providing uninterrupted supply of fuel, communication, ventilators production,
several services by Aviation, FCI etc. It is time, when you must compare and
analyse the contribution of Public Sectors and Private Sectors during this hard
time. Leave aside the contribution, the Government of India appeared to be
helpless in front of private sectors; as they even did not comply to the
request/order of the government of handling the current situation in respect of
their workers with humanity. The government appealed to the private sectors to
not do retrenchments or pay cuts, to which the private sectors plainly denied.
They are not in the business to fulfil their human responsibility; their prime
objective is to earn profit and will remain to be the same. On the contrary,
the Public Sectors of the country, who are already badly struck by the sudden
lockdown in the country are unparallelly serving the humanity. India is a
country of rich cultural values, if we consider the relationship between the
Government of India and Public Sectors, the latter can be seen as the child of
the first. It is the prime responsibility of the Government to run the PSUs,
but it seems that the Government is selfishly willing to rely and command the
PSUs in the times of need and in return, in the name of so called loss or need
of revenue not hesitating to even sell out its own biggest reliable earning
strength. Time and again, the Government of India has declared that “Government
has no business to be in business”. We feel the government must introspect and
analyse if its motto is clear in its own functionary because most of the times
these two seem to be in contradiction.
India
has witnessed many critical situations, but after facing each of such
situations the PSUs in core sectors like Oil, Steel, Coal, Power, Telecom,
Engineering, Defence, Railways have become self-reliant and grown to new
heights. These PSUs have contributed by:
-
Rescuing the Indian economy during the
worldwide economic recession.
-
Producing efficient and quality
products.
-
Contributing approximately 10% to 12% to
the GDP.
-
Being major source of revenue generation
for the Government.
-
Paying dividend to the exchequer, whose
prices are within the reach of citizens.
-
Increasing the procurement from MSMEs
and releasing the payments to the small-scale industries/units (it has played a
vital role in quality employment generation)
-
Spending approximately Rs. 40,000 Crore
on Corporate Social Responsibility: Swach Bharat Mission, Rural Development,
Education, Health Care and Sanitation, Skill Development etc.
The CPSUs have
been established with a lot of efforts and huge infrastructure, hence, it is
rationale and imperative to continue the smooth working of the PSUs. The
decision of letting go the access of PSUs will be proven as a catastrophe, as
government will never be able attain the sold land or machinery of these PSUs.
In addition, the government shall never be able to establish again this huge
infrastructure which is the largest and most valuable asset of the country.
In
view of the above, we once again raise our request to your good self to take
the proper insight of the reality and resolve the issues pertaining to
the CPSUs viz. stopping:
Ø Privatisation
& disinvestment of PSUs,
Ø Corporatization
of Defence Ordinance sector,
Ø Strategic
sale of PSUs,
Ø Increasing
FDI cap,
Ø Merger
of Banks, Insurance, PSUs,
Ø Commercialization
of Coal Sector,
Ø Anti-worker
changes in labour laws,
and
Ø Stop
privatisation, disinvestment, corporatization of Postal Life Insurance
Ø Ensure
50 (Fifty) Lakh Life Insurance Coverage
to all front line Postal Workers including Gramin Dak Sevaks.
Ø Ensure
8(Eight) hours duty to all Gramin Dak Sevaks and ensure facilities as per Govt.
Employee.
We
are hopeful that the government will come out of the trap of its predatory
advisors (having no intention of saving the country), who have blindsided the
government. From the past, it is clear that the government is not working in an
unbiased manner and misunderstanding its foe as friend. However, there is still
time left with the government to take corrective measures or it shall give
answer to the public of the country, who have trusted you with such a big
responsibility. It is the government who is answerable to its citizens not its
foes in disguise of friend (bureaucrats/advisors).
Keeping
the interest of nation as prime, we request you to kindly resolve the issues
through bilateral discussions by the medium of dialogue with the stakeholders.
This way, together we can ensure a healthy, strong and prosperous future of
CPSUs and its workers, for which we shall ever remain grateful to you.
Yours Sincerely,
DIVISIONAL
SECRETARY
Friday, 5 June 2020
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