Members of the
Joint Council of Action South Zone which represents employees from the
Railway, Defence, Postal and other Central Government departments
organised a protest meeting near the Collectorate premises here on
Monday.
More than 300
members of various associations, including Southern Railway Mazdoor
Union (SRMU), All India Defence Employees’ Federation (AIDEF) and
National Federation of Postal Employees (NFPE), participated in the
protest meeting. Zonal president Raja Sridhar and divisional secretary
J.M. Rafiq addressed the meeting.
The members
also submitted a petition at the Collectorate along with a copy of the
demands adopted by the National Convention of the Central Government
Employees in December 2014.
In their
37-point charter of demands, the employees asked for the implementation
of wage revision for Central government employees, which should be done
once in every five years.
‘No privatisation’
They
also demanded that no privatisation or Foreign Direct Investment should
be allowed in railways and defence establishments, and opposed
corporatisation of postal services.
Among other
things, they also opposed outsourcing and privatisation of governmental
functions and asked the government to withdraw the proposed move to
close down printing presses.
Stating that
many residential quarters needed renovation, the employees urged the
Central government to carry out repairs, not to compel staff to stay in
inhabitable quarters, and pay house rent allowance.
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