CONFEDERATION OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENT
EMPLOYEES AND WORKERS
Manishinath
Bhawan
A2/95
Rajourigarden
New
Delhi-10027
website:
confederationhq.blogspot. com.
Conf/ 15/2012
Dated:
3rd September, 2012
Dear
Comrade,
The Word Federation of Trade Unions, was founded in a Conference held at
Paris from 3rd to 8th October, 1945. It had its deepest
crisis when the socialist system collapsed in the erstwhile USSR. The 15th
Congress of WFTU was held at Havana in 2005. The said Congress helped to
revive the active functioning of the WFTU. The 16th Congress
was held at Athens, Greece in April, 2011. It was a grand success and
paved way for the WFTU to become a potent organisation to lead the international
working class to militant struggles against the Globalisation agenda of
capitalist system. One of the decisions taken at the Congress was to
observe the international day of action every year to unite the working class
throughout the world for action on certain important contemporary class
issues. Ist April, 2009 was thus observed as international day of action
to raise the issue of workers right and against exploitation. On 7th
September, 2010, when the Indian Working Class organised the greatest ever
strike action under the auspices of the united platform of all Central Trade
Unions and Federations, the day was observed by WFTU with the slogan that
"We will not pay for their crisis". It was in the background
when most of the capitalist countries decided to bail out the giant corporate
houses from crisis by tax payers' money. In 2011 the day was observed on
3rd October i.e. the foundation day of WFTU and the slogan
raised was "Social Security for all, collective bargaining rights, trade
union rights and democratic rights, 35 hours of work and 5 day week, better
wages etc.
The Confederation had been carrying out this directive of the WFTU being an
affiliate of the TUI, public Services. In the face of the pension fund
privatisation and the PFRDA Bill, the slogan for social security for all raised
by the WFTU received appreciation from the rank and file of our membership. The
other issues raised by the WFTU were also equally relevant and important for
the Government employees of India for they are still denied the right to
collective bargaining and other trade union rights. India, we should
remember, is one of the countries of the world, which has still not ratified
many of the ILO conventions.
This year, the WFTU has decided to raise the following five issues which are of
utmost and essential pre requisite for human existence. i.e. Food,
Water, health, Education and Housing for all. Both the CITU and AITUC which are
affiliated to the WFTU will be organising this programme throughout our country
on 3rd October, 2012. As an affiliate of TUI Public Services,
it is our bounden duty that we observe 3rd October, 2012, with
appropriate programmes so that the message reaches all our members.
The State Committees may chalk out either independent programme of action or
hold joint programmes in consultation and association with the State Units of
the All India State Government employees Federations, CITU or AITUC.
With greetings,
Yours fraternally,
K.K.N. Kutty
Secretary General.
