Indefinite strike from 13th July 2010 We must win and we shall win
The Postal JCA has given a clarion call to go for the indefinite strike from 13th July 2010 not for the monetary benefits but for the existence of ‘Postal’ as Govt service and for the peaceful working atmosphere with better career prospects for its employees.
The unilateral decisions of the Postal board taken without consulting the Staff side, the big changes proposed under the guise of Mckensey and Accenture are the last straws on the Camel’s back and our patience shall not be construed as our weakness.
The department is calling for many RFP on various schemes from the public and big contracts. Despite it knows well that many sanctioned posts are lying vacant for years together, it has no time to call for RFP to invite suggestions to fill up at least the vacant posts not for the new creation in order to tone up the efficiency in the right sense. It has no time to form a separate programme to alleviate the service oriented grievances of the employees working in the Project Arrow post offices.
The Postal Board is in a hurry to complete major transformations in postal like restructuring the organization, Core Banking solutions etc. but no care to augment adequate personnel or at least to fill up the vacant posts. There is no hurry or no time limit in granting regular promotions, three MACPs etc. for the employees working under them. There are no botherations to mitigate any one the genuine demands but kept them alive always under cold storage.
All sub divisional inspectors are getting supplies of H.P. laptop model 4410 by the department and each subdivision will be supplied with one HP printer also. Welcome. We appreciate the decision. But what happened to the systems administrators who are dealing 24 hours daily with multifarious soft ware’s, patches etc to maintain the computers and allied jobs. Is it not the operational requirement for the systems administrators to keep an exclusive computer to preserve all the software’s and for the maintenance of the numerous patches?
We have many genuine grievances and they remain unredressed are too obvious and factual that could not be denied. The simple but the core demand of cadre review is being kept in cold storage and not even discussed even one time but the piecemeal implementation of Postmasters cadre has been made unilaterally without any discussion and kept the staff side in darkness.
Should we reconcile to this position of being denied our dues or meet this challenge against the odds? We have to meet these challenges posed and defeat the moves undermining our interests. Even Mahatma Gandhiji who always advocated satyagraha and peace had also advocated for the direct action justifying its necessity with the following words.
“Sometimes you find a man’s mind so warped by false assumptions, or hidden prejudices that no amount of reasoning can convince. Then he requires shock treatment, something that will touch his emotions and which may lead him to reexamine his fundamental assumptions.”
Yes. We learnt from our movement, past history that never submits to injustice wherever we find it by whosoever perpetrated. Under the present circumstances have we any alternative but to assert our rights and privileges’? When the postal administration is remaining indifferent even in the redressal of minor grievances of the employees shall we remain as mute silent spectators? Can we wash our hands from these great responsibilities of protecting the postal services and its employees? Having made it clear about the Postal board’s attitude towards employees despite our sincere efforts to establish peace and harmony, shall we wait further more? We have to safeguard, secure and strengthen the service and staff. The road to salvation and success is only the organized strength, unity, collective bargaining and struggle. This is the one and only road.
“What next and how’- the manner in which “Arthasatra” set the preamble that led the great forces. Yes. What is our next? That is the clarion call given by all the postal workers to go on indefinite strike demanding status quo and survival of the department and for the better promotional avenues. We shall meet the challenges. We shall unite; mobilize all sections of the postal employees. Prepare for the effective confrontation from 13th July 2010 after celebrating the Golden Jubilee of the 1960 July strike on 12th July 2010.
We should mobilize in a proper and pucca manner the workers around these charters of demands and then make the Govt to realize that the postal employees can hit hard to wrest their demands. Yes. Don to mantle the battle dress. Take a position against these unilateral and unreasonable positions of the Postal board. Safeguard, secure and strengthen the organization by total unity. Activate, agitate and advance. Mobilise for a mighty indefinite massive strike from 13th July and a militant struggle to wrest our demands.
The success of the agitation depends on our organizational preparedness and inherent strength.
WE MUST WIN. WE SHOULD WIN.
(Bhartuya Post Editorial June 2010)
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