INDEFINITE STRIKE FROM 1st WEEK OF MARCH 2016 – SECRETARY, JCM (NC) STAFF SIDE WRITES TO GOVERNMENT.
National Joint
Council of Action
4, State Entry Road, New
Delhi – 110055
No.NJC/2015/7th CPC December 10, 2015
To
Shri. Pradip Kumar
Sinha
Cabinet Secretary Government of India
Rashtrapati Bhawan
Annexe
New Delhi-110001
Sir,
Subject:- 7 th CPC
recommendations and Charter of Demands – Reg.
We send herewith our suggestions and demands
on the recommendation made by the 7th CPC. As indicated when the undersigned
met you on 20th November 2015 the central government employees are extremely
agitated over the totally retrograde recommendations of the Commission. The meagre increase of 14% recommended by the 7th CPC is
the lowest ever any pay Commission has made. It was the similar
recommendation, we would request you to recall, made by the 2 nd CPC that
triggered a confrontation of an unprecedented nature, leading to a strike
action which lasted for five days in the year 1960. In the background of the
fact that the 5th and 6 th CPC recommendations had resulted in the wage rise of
31% and 54% respectively, the anger, anguish and frustration of the employees
are the natural outcome. Unless the minimum wage is re-determined with all
consequential benefits, the discontent will not be capable of being addressed
effectively.
It is, therefore, necessary that a
meeting of the members of the Standing Committee of JCM NC is convened under
your chairmanship immediately to discuss the issues we have incorporated in the
enclosed charter. Settlement through bilateral negotiation has become the
urgent need and requirement.
I have been directed by the meeting
of the NJCA held on 8th December 2015 to convey to you the disappointment and
resentment of the employees over the recommendations of the 7th CPC. We expect
a bilateral negotiated settlement of the issues without delay from the
Government. We request you that a mutually agreeable settlement on the issues
are brought about latest by the first week of February 2016. I have been asked
by the meeting to inform you that the entire Central Govt Employees under the
auspices of National JCA will be constrained to
go indefinite strike in the first week of March 2016 if the desired settlement
through bilateral discussions is not brought about by the first week of
February 2016.
To facilitate an early resolution of the
issues, we expect the government to set up a Committee of Group of Ministers to
negotiate with the NJCA immediately. We earnestly hope that the Government will
effectively intervene and bring about a satisfactory settlement much before the
first week of February 2016 and avoid an otherwise inevitable confrontation.
Thanking you,
Yours
faithfully, (Shiva Gopal Mishra) Convener