11/07/2016
Let us remember the Red Letter Day of 11th July 1960
During the year 1960, Central Government employees organized a nation-wide strike against the meager increase of pay of 14.2%. The role played in the above strike by our founder leader KR and others is given below.
KR issued an appeal to all workers exhorting them to be prepared for all sacrifices and sufferings to secure a better tomorrow. KR was arrested on the mid night of 11thJuly 1960 and interned in Tihar Jail in Delhi. The strike was called off unconditionally after 5 days on 16-7-1960. 45,945 employees who took part in the strike were proceeded against under departmental proceedings. 27,098 were suspended. 17,771 were proceeded against in courts of law and more than 800 were dismissed or removed due to court convictions. 976 were dismissed due to departmental proceedings. 11 were compulsorily retired. 2137 were discharged from service. Termination notices were issued to 7589 officials.
It is a pity that KR was handcuffed chained both arms and legs and brought to court.
Let us remember the sacrifices of our old leaders and take pledge to follow their foot-steps in the coming days.
Our sincere salute to the sacrificed leaders of the past.
Let us remember the Red Letter Day of 11th July 1960
During the year 1960, Central Government employees organized a nation-wide strike against the meager increase of pay of 14.2%. The role played in the above strike by our founder leader KR and others is given below.
KR issued an appeal to all workers exhorting them to be prepared for all sacrifices and sufferings to secure a better tomorrow. KR was arrested on the mid night of 11thJuly 1960 and interned in Tihar Jail in Delhi. The strike was called off unconditionally after 5 days on 16-7-1960. 45,945 employees who took part in the strike were proceeded against under departmental proceedings. 27,098 were suspended. 17,771 were proceeded against in courts of law and more than 800 were dismissed or removed due to court convictions. 976 were dismissed due to departmental proceedings. 11 were compulsorily retired. 2137 were discharged from service. Termination notices were issued to 7589 officials.
It is a pity that KR was handcuffed chained both arms and legs and brought to court.
Let us remember the sacrifices of our old leaders and take pledge to follow their foot-steps in the coming days.
Our sincere salute to the sacrificed leaders of the past.
Cabinet ignored key suggestion of Pay Commission
No more pay commissions should be set up, the panel had recommended in report.
Concerned over possible backlash
from unions, the Union Cabinet has chosen not to act on the most significant
and progressive recommendation of the 7th Pay Commission — that no more pay
commissions should be set up and instead a more performance-linked appraisal
system must be put in place.Though it sent the set of recommendations aimed at
rationalising the pay structures to the Department of Personnel and Training
last week, no deadline or directions for further processing the suggestions
were specified. “The reforms recommended by the pay commission are effectively
killed … an opportunity to rationalise pays and link them to performance, and
introduce meritocracy has been lost,” a top Finance Ministry source told The
Hindu.
Wide gaps
The Commission’s report highlighted
wide gaps between the pays of Central government employees and their
counterparts in the private sector. A study it commissioned found that while a
driver in the private sector typically earns around Rs. 12,000 a month, an
entry-level driver in government service takes home nearly Rs. 25,000. Similarly,
while government doctors with an MBBS degree get Rs. 80,500 a month, their
counterparts in the private sector earn only Rs. 50,000. But remuneration of
private sector doctors with an MD or MS degree and 15 years experience exceeds
that of their counterparts in government: Rs. 3,70,000 per month as compared to
Rs. 1,60,000 in the government sector.
Other recommendations forwarded to
the DoPT seek to establish parity between the officers of the Indian
Administrative Service and the rest of the cadres on both pays and promotions.
Bank unions to go ahead with strike on July 12-13
New Delhi, Jul 10:
Bank employees will go ahead with
their nationwide strike on July 12-13, a top AIBEA official said.
This follows the conciliation
meeting convened by the chief labour commissioner failing to yield any results,
C H Venkatachalam, General Secretary, All India Bank Employees Association
(AIBEA) told BusinessLine.
On the first day, July 12, all the
employees of five associate banks will strike work. Next day, employees from
all banks will participate in the strike, Venkatachalam added.
The strike call had been given to
oppose the closure of associate banks and their merger with State Bank of
India. Bank unions are all opposed to proposed privatisation of IDBI Bank.