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Nationwide govt employees' strike on July 25More than 7.5 million central and state government employees will go on a one-day, nation-wide strike on July 25 to demand a halt to privatisation downsizing of administration and curtailment of existing benefits, it was announced in New Delhi on Monday. In the run-up to the one-day strike, July 18 would be observed as 'anti-privatisation day' and rallies would be held throughout the country. This was decided at a joint convention of All India State Government Employees Federation and Confederation of Central Government Employees and Workers. Releasing the declaration adopted at the convention, AISGEF secretary general Sukomal Sen and CGE&WS secretary general S K Vyas said that under the 'diktats' of the IMF and the World Bank, the government was not only putting the employees service at stake, but also snatching away benefits earned through bitter struggles. "The joint convention of government employees notes with deep concern the anti-employee, anti-labour, anti-farmer and anti-people policies being pursued by the government in the name of introducing second generation economic reform," the declaration said. "The government has announced through its budget proposals which stand approved by Parliament, massive downsizing of government establishments, suspension of LTC facilities, increase in the rent of government accommodation, reduction in the rate of interest on pf deposits by 2.5 per cent per annum, amendment of contract laws to outsource permanent and perennial jobs to contract labour and amendment to the Industrial Disputes Act to empower employers to retrench or lay off without prior permission of the government in respect of those units employing less than 1,000 workers,'' the declaration added. Following the policy of the central government, most state governments also had resorted to downsizing, corporatisation, abolition of vacant posts, ban on recruitment, stoppage of or curtailment of DA, bonus and LTC. In some states, besides resorting to retrenchment, existing employees were denied salaries for months together, it added. UNI |
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