Friday, August 1, 2008

Circular 5 of All India Accounts and Audit Officers Association

ALL INDIA ACCOUNTS AND AUDIT OFFICERS ASSOCIATION
(Recognised by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India)
Ref. No. 59/NGE(JCM) 27-2006(Vol-II) dt. 12-03-2007
E Mail ID ‘auditacounts@gmail.com’
Website:’auditaccountsofficers.blogspot.com’
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No. AIAAAOA/Circular/2008-09/5 01.08.2008

To
The National Executive Members &
The Secretaries of the Affiliates

Dear Comrades,

SERVE STRIKE NOTICE ON 4TH AUGUST:
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STRIVE HARD FOR TOTAL STRIKE ON 2OTH AUGUST 2008
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As per the decision of the Convention, Our federation decided to join the one day strike on 20th August 2008 on the six demands that were finalised in the joint Convention of Central and State Employees & teachers on 8th July 2008, consequent to the decision of the Central Trade Unions and Federations in a convention held at New Delhi on 13th June 2008.

The demands adopted by National convention of Central and State Government employees and University, college and School teachers on 8th July, 2008

Accept the modifications suggested by the Staff Side JCM in the Standing Committee meeting held on 7th May, 2008 and implement the 6th CPC recommendations accordingly.
Afford right to strike to Government employees
Withdraw the new contributory Pension scheme and extend the existing defined benefit pension scheme to all Govt. employees including those recruited after 1.1.2004.
Stop privatization, corporatisation and downsizing of Government department and abandon the neo-liberal economic policies.

The Demands adopted in National Convention of Trade Unions on 13 May 2008
Take urgent step to contain price-rise through (a) universalizing the public distribution system throughout the country to cater all essential commodities at controlled price through PDS, (b) ban on futures and forward trading in all essential commodities, (C) reduction of tax in petrol and diesel, (d) stringent action against hoarding and black marketing.
Strict implementation of all labour laws particularly in respect of minimum wages, working hours, social security and safety and stringent action against all cases of violations; stop contractorisation and outsourcing
Scope of the Unorganised Sector Workers Social Security Bill pending in Parliament should be expanded to cover all unorganised sector workers irrespective of BPL or APL category to ensure a national minimum social security benefit for them as per unanimous recommendation of the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector (NCEUS) and the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour with Central Govt Funding.
Farmers Loan Waiver Scheme to be extended to loans from private moneylenders; nationalized banks to extend easy credit to peasants at lower interest rate.
Lift ban on recruitment in Govt services; remove the negative and discriminatory features in the recommendation of 6th Pay Commission and finalise the same for implementation in consultation with the employees organisations; expedite regularization and grant of pension to 'gramin dak-sevaks.'
Expedite wage negotiation for the employees of Central PSUs including the contract workers without any conditionality.
This is the first time the government employees including the audit and accounts employees & officers in particular and the working class in general would be embarking upon a strike action on the issue of price rise that impacted adversely on the day to day life of the people at large. The All India Accounts and Audit Officers association cautioned the members against the plans of the present Government to accomplish the so-called unfinished agenda of neo-liberal reforms. Immediately after getting through the trust vote, the present Government had come out in its true colour. The Government could not suppress its zeal in announcing its plans for immediate measures to finish the so-called unfinished agenda of neo-liberal reforms, which obviously pertain to privatization and deregulation of financial sector - in pension, banking and insurance. The All India Accounts and Audit Officers Association felt these were designed to unleash complete deregulation to establish hegemony of private capital, both foreign and domestic, over the financial sector of the country.
Allowing voting rights for the foreign players in banking sector, unhurdled operation of foreign companies in the insurance sector and raising of the FDI cap, pushing the pension and other social security funds as fodders for speculative operations in the share market, privatisation/disinvestments of the profit-making Public Sector Undertakings etc are the retrograde measures on the anvil on the part of the present government, which could so long be stalled by the organized opposition by the entire trade union movement. The trade unions in this country denounces such overzealous posture by the present Government against taking such retrograde moves which would further throw the entire national economy deeper into the grip of speculative interests. In this background the All India Accounts and Audit Officers Association calls upon its officers to make the call of countrywide general strike of August 20, 2008 by the Sponsoring Committee of Trade Unions a total success and prepare for bigger countrywide united resistance struggle against such contemplated measures of privatization and deregulation of pension funds being touted overzealously by the present Government.
The All India Accounts and Audit Officers Association further calls upon every unit to endorse the notice that would be served to C&AG by All India Accounts & Audit Officers Association on 4th August 2008 by holding massive general body meetings.
Draft resolution that may be adopted in the GB is enclosed along with the Strike Notice that would be served to CAG.
The information regarding serving the notice may please be communicated to HQr through SMS on the same day followed by sending the copy of the notice served by post.
With warm regards,

Yours fraternally,

( S.Mohan)
Secretary General.