Editorial 4th Quarter 2019
EDITORIAL FIRE MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2019
CHIEF EDITOR
Thota Hanumaiah
THE JOINT PLATFORM, OF TEN CENTRAL TRADE UNIONS, INDEPENDENT FEDERATIONS AND UNIONS OF WORKERS AND EMPLOYEES, HAS ISSUED A DECLARATION FROM THE NATIONAL OPEN MASS CONVENTION OF WORKERS HELD ON 30th SEPTEMBER 2019 AT PARLIAMENT STREET IN NEW DELHI AND ANOUNCED NATIONWIDE STRIKE ON JAN 8, 2020
The joint plat form of trade unions gave a clarian call for a nationwide general strike on 8th Jan, 2020 against governments’ failure to respond to demands of workers. They also said ”The central government not only failed to respond to the genuine demands of the working people, but continued its brazen aggression against the rights of the workers, to serve the interests of their corporate masters.Bipartism and tripartism is given a go-by. Labour laws are being sought to be overhauled in favour of the Employers’ class.” They, further, said,”the BJP headed NDA government continues to vindictively deprive the Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC) from all representations. Furthermore, no Indian Labour Conference has been held and the pre-Budget consultations have become a sham.” They are also, pressing for favourable settlement of 12 point charter of demands,
They are also, vehemently opposing the aggressive move of privatization of all the strategic Public Sector Units and government sector through different routes including Railways, Defense production, ports, petroleum, public road transport, coal, power, steel, banks and Insurance etc. The complete privatization of railways step by step is going on. Operating private trains on the existing tracks built by railways and free access of railway yards/ workshops/ sheds for private players is being permitted. Railway printing presses are being closed. Railway production units are being corporatized to facilitate privatization. In the result, besides the railway employees becoming the worst victims, mass of the common people will suffer more owing to inevitable hike of railway fares and increase in freight charges owing to elimination of subsidies in passenger fares and freight on essential commodities.
The national convention of workers appealed to all the workers, irrespective of their affiliation to join hands and co-ordinate their sectoral struggles into a mighty countrywide movement to force the government to reverse their anti national policies. Let us send a clear message to the ruling classes that, we are the wealth creators. Also, it is said that, the wealth that we create is being looted by the corporate in connivance with the government which has caused suppression of effective market demand leading to the consequential slow down of Economy. We demand equitable redistribution of the wealth that we create.
The National mass convention of workers calls for a countrywide general strike action as a consolidation of all sectoral struggles. The convention therefore adopts the following programmes for mobilization of workers for the grand success of the strike.
The programme of action includes:
1. Joint Conventions of Workers at Sectoral Level, at State Level, at District Level during two months of October and November, 2019
2. Widest possible circulation of Declaration down to factory, establishment, institution and base level through the above activity during December, 2019
3. Country-wide General Strike On 8th January, 2020.
Let us go along with the millions of working class across the country in support of the one day strike on 08-01-2020 for its success.
It is high time that the central government being a model employer ruling a welfare state has to take initiative for holding negotiations with all the stake holders on all the issues raised by them for an amicable settlement, early, in the interest of Nation, Industrial harmony and economic growth.
REVERSE ANTI PEOPLE ECONOMIC POLICIES.
REVERSE ANTI WORKER LABOUR REFORMS.
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