From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ganashakti Newspaper) Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 13:39:45 +0530 To: "Scott Marshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "World List for Rednet" Subject: CPSTU CALLS FOR UNITED COUNTRYWIDE STRUGGLE INCLUDING STRIKE >From India News Network (INN) New Delhi, November 19: H Mahadevan, AITUC, Michael B Fernandes (Joint Action Front, Bangalore), M K Pandhe (CITU), R A Mittal, HMS and Y Adinarayana, PSU TU Coordination Committee, Hyderabad has jointly issued the following statement: Against Public Sector sell-out and closure and retrograde changes in labour laws: CPSTU CALLS FOR UNITED COUNTRYWIDE STRUGGLE INCLUDING STRIKE. The extended meeting of Committee of Public Sector Trade unions (CPSTU), comprising the public sector trade unions held on 17-18 November at Bangalore called upon the public sector workers irrespective of affiliations to prepare for countrywide united strike action against the anti-national, anti-PSU and anti-people policies of the Government of India. The two-day session of CPSTU was attended by 130 delegates from all the public sector unions in the country. The meeting expressed grave concern over hectic move of the Government of India to sell-out the profit making PSUs and close down the others. Each and every event of either sale of shares or outright sale of the PSUs exposed gross irregularity, corruption and distress sale of the PSUs with huge asset base to the advantage of the prospective buyers in foreign and Indian corporates, which is now being sought to be legitimized and officialised by their so called "Manual on Procedures on Disinvestment" published by the Disinvestment Ministry. The CPSTU also voiced its strong opposition to the desperate bid by the government to thoroughly change the labour laws in favour of the employers to legalise "hire & fire" and contracterisation of the entire workforce and called upon the PSU workers to be ready for strike action at short notice if such moves are made in the forthcoming session of Parliament. In the above background, the extended session of CPSTU have decided the following programmes of agitation and action: a.. CPSTU calls upon and appeals to the public sector workers irrespective of affiliations and all the PSU trade unions to prepare for countrywide strike action against the anti-people, anti-PSU policies of the Government of India. a.. Further, any move to amend the labour laws in favour of the employers in the forthcoming session of Parliament would be opposed to by the PSU workers through countrywide strike action at short notice to be called by the Central Trade Unions. a.. The CPSTU calls upon the all the public sector unions to express solidarity with the three-day strike action by the Coal Workers on 3-5 December through demonstration and by sending telegram to Coal Minister on December 3, 2001. a.. Massive regional joint convention under the banner of CPSTU against the privatisation and closure of PSUs, non-payment of wages and onslaught on workers rights and facilities in all the major public sector and industrial centres like Delhi, Mumbai, Calcutta, Bhopal, Lucknow, Baroda, Ahmedabad, Kanpur, Calcutta, Durgapur, Rourkela, Chennai, Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam, Bangalore, Cochin, Thiruvananthapuram, Guwahati and other places, to be attended by the CPSTU leaders (to be completed by 15th January, 2002). a.. Massive all India convention of all public sector workers on the Sunday immediately preceding the commencement of the forthcoming Budget session of Parliament to decide further programmes of movement Including the date of nation wide public sector STRIKE. a.. Massive DHARNA before Parliament on the next day The CPSTU calls upon the public sector workers irrespective of affiliations to make all out preparation to make the programmes a total success. eom _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
