~~~~ STRIKE  ON  12.12.2012 ~~~~  

CIRCULAR  OF  GUIDELINES & PROGRAMS  ISSUED  BY  THE  CIRCLE  UNIONS

&

AN  APPEAL  OF  THE  POSTAL COORDINATION COMMITTEE  TO  THE  POSTAL  FRATERNITY  OF  WEST  BENGAL  

CIRCLE  UNION  WRITES  TO  CHIEF  PMG  FOR  DEFINITIVE  SENIORITY  TO  2005-08  P.A.s 

     Group-C Circle Union has written the above letter to the Circle Head for clear determination of seniority to the P.A.s recruited against the vacancies of 2005-08, who happened to complete their training but was not allowed to join till court order. The Circle Union is following up the matter continuously. Copy of this letter has also been sent by post to all Divisional Secretaries for wide intimation among all.    

STRIKE  INTIMATION  TO  BE  SERVED  TOMORROW,  KOLKATA  CITY  DIVISIONS  ON  23rd 

     All suburban divisions will serve strike intimation tomorrow holding huge gatherings at respective divisional headquarters. Circle Unions will serve intimation to the Circle Office, all secretaries of Kolkata City Divisions are requested to attend the C.O. with large number of comrades. 

   Strike intimation will be served by Kolkata Divisions on coming 23rd November, the day on which half-day's sit-in demonstration has also been called by CGCC, West Bengal.  

POSTMASTER  CADRE  SUB-COMMITTEE  MEETING  ON  2nd DECEMBER 2012 

      A meeting of the Circle Union's Postmaster Cadre Sub-Committee has been convened on 2nd December, Sunday, at Asansol Head Post Office. All Sub-Committee members are requested to please ensure their presence. Com. Janardan Majumdar, Circle Secretary Group-C, will rem,ain present in the meeting.

A  MEETING  OF  THE  AVAILABLE  CIRCLE  OFFICE  BEARERS  HAS  BEEN  CONVENED  TOMORROW  EVENING  AT  THE  CIRCLE  UNION  OFFICE.  CIRCLE  OFFICE  BEARERS  OF  KOLKATA  AND  NEIGHBOURING  DIVISIONS  ARE  TO  ENSURE  THEIR  PRESENCE.  OTHERS  ARE  ALSO  REQUESTED  TO  PLEASE  MAKE  EFFORT  TO  REMAIN  PRESENT. 

 ENSUING  PROGRAMS  &  ORGANISATIONAL  NEWS

• The CGCC, West Bengal, has called to hold half-day's sit-in demonstration on 23.11.2012 for 12th Dec '12 strike campaigning . All Branch / Divl unions are requested to organise it at headquarters with all seriousness. 

• A meeting at the call of CGCC will be held centrally in Kolkata on 4th December 2012 at Y-Road (near Curzon Park and Esplanade) at 5 P.M. in support of the ensuing strike. 

• A rally in support of the strike has been scheduled by CGCC on 10th December 2012 in Kolkata. The details of the route will be notified shortly. 

• Some comrades expressed unwillingness to accept promotion as per the LSG memo published in April 2012 by the Circle Office. Circle Union is pursuing the cases and disposal is expected shortly.

• Regarding the issue of implementation of seniority of P.A.s recruited against the vacancies of 2005-08, although the order has been released, the implication is not clear apart from securing position in gradation list. Negotiation is going on with the Circle Administration for issuing a speaking order for clear benefits. Circle Union will notify the comrades at the right moment if anything formal in writing is required to be submitted to the administration. Comrades are requested to remain in close contact with Divisional Leaderships.

    All comrades are requested to note that the intimation for the strike on 12th December 2012 is to be served in all Branches and Divisions on 19th November 2012 at recess hours organising huge gathering of our comrades at all Branch / Divisioanl Headquarters. 

   Please also follow the blogs of Federation (NFPE) and our Group-C (CHQ) for regular updates and instructions regarding strike.

     Comrade Goutam Roy, P.A., Kolkata GPO and former Assistant Secretary of Kolkata GPO, who was on deputation as an instructor, PTC Mysore now, died with his wife and daughter, Ushri,  today early in the morning on his way for a trip to Goa from Mysore. He was only 38.

    Comrade Roy succeeded in IPO examination of the department few years back but chose not to join the IPO cadre. With his knowledge of rulings, he helped many of our comrades and the Branch and Circle Union on quite a few occasions. He contributed in preparing many proposals to the Gr-C CHQ and also interacted with Circle and All India Union frequently with queries and suggestions. He took prominent role in the movements of Kolkata GPO against the administrative attacks. Both his parents also were our comrades, staffs of North Presidency Division.

        We do not have adequate words to express our condolence to the members of his family, to all his close acquaintances and comrades. Let us pay our respect to his memory by contributing our organisation and department.

15th STATE CONFERENCE OF CGCC, WEST BENGAL, ENDS WITH THE VOW TO FIGHT OUT THE ANTI-WORKER ANTI-PEOPLE NEO-LIBERAL POLICIES 

   The 15th State Conference of Coordination Committee of Central Govt Employees and Workers has been held with a grand success at Sarat Sadan, Howrah, from 4th to 6th Nov 2012, followed by a State Convention of Working Women on 7th. 

    The conference was inaugurated by Com. Dr. Pravat Pattanayak, the eminent economist of international repute. Com. K.K.N.Kutty, Secretary General, Confederation and Com. Sukomal Sen, an international leader of trade union movements, spoke on the second day. On 6th, Com. Basudeb Acharya, M.P. and a co-fighter of the trade unionists in India addressed the house. Com. Kali Ghosh, General Secretary, C.I.T.U. also spoke on 6th. The reportings will be appearing in the upcoming issues of 'Coordination' Patrika. In the open session, the Chairperson of Howrah Municipality, who also was the President of the Reception Committee,  Com. Mamata Jaiswal and the District Sabhadhipati Com. Mina Ghosh Banerjee were present along with other leaders from Bank, Railways etc. on different dates for expressing their solidarity.

    About 750 delegates and visitors attended the conference altogether belonging to all age groups, caste and creed. It was a harmony of the working class against the attacks of neo-liberal policies unleashed on the workers, employees and common people of India by the rulers of the country enslaving the capitalists. The house assessed the situation thoroughly through deliberations of 60 comrades and resolved firmly to set an unprecedented record in the ensuing strikes on 12th December 2012 and 20-21 Feb 2013.

   The conference equivocally elected the following body of office-bearers of CGCC for the next term :

• President:                         Com. Tapan Dasgupta (Postal).
• Vice-President:                 Com. Mahesh Bhattacharya
•                                        Com. Nirmal Dey (Postal)
•                                        Com. Sandhya Das (Postal)
• General Secretary:            Com. Pijush Roy (Civil Accounts) 
• Asstt. Gen. Secy. :            Com. Sumit Bose (ITEF)
• Finance Secretary:            Com. Aninda Mitra (Audit)
• Secretary (Journal):           Com. Soumen Roy (RMS)
• Secretary (Office):             Com. Subhas Dasgupta (RMS)
• Organising Secretary(HQ): Com. Ujjwal Hore (ITEF)
• Organising Secy (District): Com. Uttam Sarkar (Postal)
• Organising Secretary:         Com. Tapan Pal (Customs)
•                                          Com. Shyamalendu Ghosh (NICED)
•                                          Com. Bijan Chakraborty (Postal) 

                The Advisory Council has been constituted with following members :

   Comrades Goutam Pramanik, Sumitra Goswami, Tarun Dutta, Pradip Roy and Pradi Gupta. 

       The report of Women's Convention will come up shortly.

ALL INDIA POSTAL EMPLOYEES UNION GROUP – C

ALL INDIA POSTAL EMPLOYEES UNION POSTMEN & MSE / GORUP-D

ALL INDIA POSTAL EMPLOYEES UNION, GDS ( NFPE )

WEST BENGAL CIRCLE BRANCH

37, Ganesh Chandra Avenue, Kolkata – 700 013

No. PC –34/ Branch Conference / 2012.                                            Dated: 28.10.2012

                                                           MESSAGE

1.      Com. Stephen Fernandez.

Divisional Secretary,

AIPEU, Group –C

2.      Com. Biswajit Das

Divisional Secretary,

AIPEU, Postmen & MSC/ Group D

3.      Athunu Bhattacharjee

Divisional Secretary,

AIPEU, GDS ( NFPE )

Comrades,

                 We, on behalf of our Circle Unions convey our comradely greetings and best wishes to all the delegates and leaders attending 6^th Bi-ennial conference of your division. We also wish your conference a grand success. Had we been in persons amongst you, we could share and exchange our experiences over the present scenario now prevailing in Postal Department as well as our Country. However, we think that this letter will surely fill up our absence in your conference and also make a bridge between our beloved employees of  Andaman & Nicobar Islands and ourselves. Taking this opportunity. we are also expressing our proud feelings that all the employees, including GDS, of your division are strongly united under NFPE and there is no existence of any other organization in Andaman & Nicobar Island. You have taken lessons through experience  that for existence there is only NFPE.

               You are well aware of the facts that specially after introduction of Neo Liberal economic policies we have been lying under severe threat of existence. We are experiencing that in the name of economic reforms, the Govt. of India, has been imposing all the crisis of our country on common people.  Unprecedented hike in prices of petroleum goods, essential commodities including food grains, frequent reduction of Govt. subsidy in agriculture and service sectors, disinvestment of Public Sectors under takings are the rules of the day. Like other service sectors we, the postal employees are not lying beyond this attack. Central Govt. is trying to privatize and downsize our department at the cost of the interests of the employees, common

people as a whole. Everyday, there is a new scheme in Postal Department, though thousand and thousand vacant posts in every cadre are not being filled up. Not only that, our Part time

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employees, GDS employees are being deprived of their legitimate rights year after year in one hand, while on the other, the rights including trade union rights achieved so far through incessant struggle are being badly curbed by the Govt. Under the banner of NFPE, all cross section of Postal employees have already built up united struggle against the impact of economic policies of the Govt. sometimes inside our department and sometimes  outside jointly with united forums of mass organization across the country. The all India general strike on 28^th Feb’2012 was such a glorious example in which the employees of Andaman & Nicobar also took a valiant role like all previous strikes and movements. Again at the call of Central Govt. Confederation we are going to take part in one day Strike on 12 Dec 2012 on 15 points charter of demands. We believe that our organization of Andaman & Nicobar will again take an important role for wide campaigning on 15 points charter of demands to make the forthcoming strike a grand success.

              You know that the tradition of Postal Trade Union movement, from the very day of its inception, is the total unity of the entire Postal employees and Central Govt. Employees – whether they are called Departmental Employees or Extra Departmental Employees. Late Comrades : Tarapada Mukherjee, Dada Ghosh, K. G. Bose,  N J Iyer, K Adinarayana, and all those great leaders stood for the unity of the entire Postal workers. Unfortunately, of late, deliberate attempt is being made repeatedly, from certain quarters, mainly from the GS of previous GDS organization to split and weaken the rock – like unity of Postal employees. Shall we allow such leaders to break the unity of Postal workers by stabbing from the back ? Shall we allow the Government to break our unity by joining hands with such leaders ? No, we shall not. We shall expose those disruptors and at any cost, shall uphold the unity of the Postal workers and march forward under the banner of NFPE for protecting the interest of the Postal employees including Gramin Dak Sevaks. Let us fight against the policy of the Government and make the 12^th December Strike a thundering success. And to this direction,we believe that your conference will take an important role and achieve a grand success.    

             With warm greetings and  RED SALUTE .

              Comradely yours,

             S/d                                                         S/d                                                 S/d

 BIJOY GOPAL SUR                             NIRMAL DEY                     JANARDAN MAJUMDAR

  Circle Secretary                                     Circle Secretary                            Circle Secretary

 AIPEU, GDS ( NFPE )              AIPEU, Postmen & MSE/Gr-D             AIPEU, Group – C

The  following  delegates/observers will  attend  the  state  conference of  Central Govt Co-ordination Committee to be  held  on and  from 4-6^th Nov,2012  at Sarat Sadan, Howrah.

1.        Com Pranab Bhattacharyya, Vice President, P-III Circle Union

2.        Com Janardan Majumdar, Circle Secy, P-III, WB Circle

3.         Com Gouranga Dev  Maity, AGS,P-III

4.         Com Debajyoti Gupta, Vice President, P-III Circle Union

5.         Com Asim Deb, Vice President, P-III Circle Union

6.         Com Aneswa Biswas Asstt TR

7.         Com Asit Das,Circle CS, SBCO

8.         Com Gouranga Das, Org Secy, SBCO

9.         Com Manoj Shaw,TR,P-III

10.           Com Uttam Pal,Org Secy,

11.           Com Bijan Chakraborty,Asstt CS

12.           Com Samir Chkraborty,Org Secy

13.           Com Sujit Chakraborty,DS, S Kol

14.           Com Narayan Mistry,DS, North Kol

15.           Com Ajit Rana,DS Contai

16.           Com Ranjan Malakar,Asstt Secy ,Barabazar

17.           Com Ashoke Bose/Samit Mukherjee, Kol GPO

18.           Com Bibhas Ghora, Member Office Sub Committee

19.           Com Arani Bhattacharyya, Convenor,PM Cadre Sub   

    Committee

20.           Com Partha Ghosh, Member PM Cadre Sub Committee

Delegates/Observers  are  requested  to attend   the  conference  in time. Some Office bearers ( like Com Nanda Sen, Asit Banagabas) and most of the Divl Secretaries out-side Kolkata have been selected  as  delegates from  their  respective District Co-ordination Committee. Delegates/Observers quota of Gr-C union  is  = 20(10+10). We have  distributed   this quota  amongst  the  office bearers and  some Divl Secretaries.

Circle Secretary, P-III, WB Circle

ALL INDIA CONFERENCE – BOOKING OF RAILWAY TICKETS- HURRY UP.

Booking is  to be  started 4 months  advance i.e. from 6^th Nov,2012

All India conference of AIPEU, Group-C will be held on and from 10^th March- 12^th March, 2013 at Tribundrum, Kerala Circle. Delegates/ Observers will have to reach the venue positively by 9^th March, afternoon. Please ensure booking of Railway Tickets.

Date of journey, name of trains is as follows:-

If, Date of journey be- 6^th March, 2013. Name of trains- Chennai mail (12839)

If, Date of journey be- 7^th March,2012. Name of trains- Coromondal Express (12841)  - up to Chennai.

In both cases-

From Chennai- 8^th March by Trivandrum Mail(12623) or Anantapuri Express(16723).

Comrades of north Bengal may avail the same trains or the trains convenient to them.

Return tickets, in no circumstances should not be booked before 13^th March, 2013, afternoon.

Please intimate total no. of delegates & observers of each division to Circle Union.