All India Central Council of Trade Unions (AICCTU) Central office- U-90 Shakarpur, Delhi- 92, PH- 22521067 & Fax-22442790 e-mail- [email protected], [email protected] President: S. Kumarasamy General Secretary: Swapan Mukherjee
24 September 2009 To The Chief Minister Govt. of Tamil Nadu Chennai Sir Sub - AICCTU demands withdrawal of false and fabricated cases against S. Kumarasami, National President of AICCTU in the case of death of Mr. George, Vice-president of Pricol Ltd., Coimbatore; institution of a high level inquiry into this incident and action against the Pricol management for open violation of labour Laws, govt. orders and court orders regarding the workers of this factory. An unfortunate incident of death of Mr. George, Vice-president of Pricol Ltd., Coimbatore has taken place reportedly during skirmish when the workers’ representative were talking to the deceased against dismissals of fellow workers. It is shocking, however, that in this incident Mr. S. Kumarasami, the national President of a centrally recognized central Trade Union Organisation, AICCTU and a practicing lawyer in Tamil Nadu High Court has been falsely implicated and named in FIR. You are fully aware, and also earlier apprised of systemic and rampant violation of labour laws, Government and Court orders and settlements with workers apart from vindictive actions taken by the management of Pricol Ltd., Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu towards workers. In particular, the management has over the past two years consistently refusing to talk to the union, and has threatened, victimised and intimidated workers to leave their majority union led by AICCTU. Locking out the workers, transferring them, depriving them of their earned wages and other statutory benefits – all had become the hallmark of the vindictive actions of this management since the workers of this factory started expressing their plight and raising their voice against unfair labour practices from early 2007 in totally peaceful ways like fasting, badge wearing, dharna etc. The management has a history of openly violating the govt. order of 24-05-2007 regarding 10 (B) and also subsequent High Court and Supreme Court orders regarding the same and other matters. Even the Labour Minister of your govt. in his reply to the Calling Attention Motion in the state Assembly on 30th June 2009 raised and spoken by MLAs of a host of parties like AIADMK, Congress, PMK, CPI, CPI(M) regarding the indefinite fast (from 15-06-2009) of Pricol Workers on their demands, narrated the various unfair labour practices of the management as well as the actions taken by the government. He concluded by stating that the demands of the workers are accepted and their fast has ended. He also assured that the Government would never let Pricol workers down. In particularly last two months the Pricol management had deliberately started targeting the women workers (shame!), and when the workers started protesting against it by wearing protest badges inside the factory during their working time, 43 workers were terminated on 21 September. Even then when workers continued to protest, the management with the help of its goons attacked workers during talks between Mr. George and workers’ representatives which, apparently, led to the above unfortunate incident. It is highly condemnable that S. Kumarasami, National President of AICCTU has been implicated in this case by your police administration which is nothing but in a planned manner targeting the national leader of a recognized central Trade Union Organization, creating terror among the workers and dissuading them from exercising their trade union rights. While we strongly disapprove of this unfortunate incident, we demand institution of a high level inquiry in this incident along with withdrawal of false and fabricated cases against S. Kumarasami, National President of AICCTU and stopping of arrests and witch-hunt of workers in this case. We also demand that the management particularly the MD of Pricol Ltd. should be brought to book for open violation of labour Laws, govt. orders and court orders regarding the workers of this factory. Thanking you Yours sincerely (Swapan Mukherjee) General Secretary -- You cannot build anything on the foundations of caste. You cannot build up a nation, you cannot build up a morality. Anything that you will build on the foundations of caste will crack and will never be a whole. -AMBEDKAR http://venukm.blogspot.com http://www.shelfari.com/kmvenuannur http://kmvenuannur.livejournal.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
