National Federation of Atomic Energy Employees
NFAEE
Regn.No.17/9615
Recognised by DAE vide DAE OM No. 8/1/2007 – IR&W/95 dated 13th June 2007
JCM Office, Brindavan, Anusaktinagar, Mumbai 400 094
Website: www.nfaeehq.blogspot.com
Email address: nfaee@yahoo.com
Ref. No: nfaee/sg/08/204 20.12.2008
To
All Affiliates
Working Committee Members
NFAEE
Dear Comrades,
The extended meeting of NFAEE Working Committee was held on 19th December 2008 at the JCM Office, Brindavan, Anushakti Nagar Mumbai to discuss the following agenda:
1. Review of the implementation of the action programme decided in the National Convention held at Mumbai on 9th November 2008.
2. To decide the next course of action programme
3. Call given by the Confederation of Central Government Employees & Workers
4. To Fix the venue, date for the next General Council meeting of NFAEE
5. Any other issue with the permission of the Chair
Following Secretariat Members of the Federation and the Working Committee members and other office bearers of the affiliated unions and associations attended the meeting.
G. Maniachari President NFAEE
& Gen. Secretary HWEU HWP Tuticorin
Jayaraj.K.V Secretary General NFAEE
M. Sangaih Working President NFAEE
G.K. Pandey Working President NFAEE
& Gen. Sec BARCFEA, BARCF Kalpakkam
K.G.Bilaskar Treasurer NFAEE
& Gen. Sec DPS (DAE) EA DPS Mumbai
S.R. Singh Secretary NFAEE
H.C.Tiwari Secretary NFAEE
P.M.Worlikar Secretariat Member NFAEE
& President, AEWSU, BARC Mumbai
T.Mohan President AEEA, IGCAR Kalpakkam
K.V.Murugaraj President GSOSA, GSO Kalpakkam
Vijayakumar Gen Secretary GSOSA, GSO Kalpakkam
T. Anji Reddy Jt. Secretary NFCEA, NFC Hyderabad
K. Bharani Udyara Treasurer NFCEA NFC Hyderabad
M. Nagaiah Vice President NFCEA NFC Hyderabad
M. Venkat Reddy Jt. Secretary HWP (M) EA, HWP Manuguru
T. Ram Reddy EC Memebr HWP (M) EA, HWP Manuguru
M.I.Parmar President BPKS HWP Baroda
R.K.Yadav President RAKU HWP Kota
J.K.Singh Jt. Secretary HWEU HWP Talcher
Bijoy Nandi Vice President VECCSA VECC Kolkotta
M.K.Das EC Member VECCSA VECC Kolkotta
A. Sreedharan Gen Secretary AEWSU BARC Mumbai
R.S. Tokle Gen Secretary HWBSA HWB Mumbai
Sunil Pawar Gen Secretary DCSEMSA DCSEM Mumbai
P.F. Doble Vice President DCSEMSA DCSEM Mumbai
M.R.Sasidharan Vice President AEWSU BARC Mumbai
Smt. Vijaya Londe Jt. Secretary DPS (DAE) EA DPS Mumbai
The meeting was presided by Com. G. Maniachari President, NFAEE. Secretary General intimated that Com. A. Sathasivam, Johnson, Pothraju Sreenivasa Rao, Raghuramaih, S.N.Reddy, Sanjay Bhowmick informed that they will join in the Day Long Fast at units and hence could not attend the Working Committee meeting. Com Jayakumar president intimated that as the Special General Body meeting scheduled to be held on 18th December they could not attend the meeting.
Agenda 1: Review of the implementation of the action programme decided in the National Convention held at Mumbai on 09.11.2008.
The Secretary General briefed about the activities conducted after the convention held at Mumbai on 9th November 2008. As expected the Department issued notification on 10th November 2008 and spontaneous reaction was shown by all affiliates union by arranging protest meeting from 12th November 2008 to 16th November 2008. Thereafter the available Secretariat Members at Mumbai and the office bearers of affiliated unions and association of Mumbai scheduled the programmes as decided by the Convention and intimated to all affiliates. Accordingly the following programmes conducted by all affiliates as motioned below:
In the discussion the participants seriously noted that some of the affiliates are deviating from the decision to hold action programme. Some of the affiliates are not observed the programmes. Some of them changed the programme into solidarity. The members were in the opinion changes in the programme definitely will adversely effect the united movement. At the same time it is necessary to understand the ground realities in units, why such changes without consulting the Head Quarters taking by the affailites. Those who participated in the discussion were in the view that the continuous action programme succeeded to bring the discrepancies and anomalies created by the Department while introducing the Pay structure for DAE employees. Also employees realized that the without agitation it will be difficult to get the justice.
The meeting were in unanimous to confirm that the agitation prgramme planned and conducted was the correct decision and decided to interact with those association and unions are not conducted the action programme in proper spirit and try to make convince the need of uniform action programme in all units. The meeting further decided wherever it is necessary to address the general body meeting of the employees to explain the stand taken by the Federation.
The meeting decided to request all head of units of various DAE units to intervene and settle our genuine demands.
It is also decided to submit a detailed memorandum to the Hon’ble Prime Minister about the demands, approach of the Department, etc. It is also decided to approach all local MPs where our units situate and request them to intervene.
Agenda 2: To decide the next course of action programme
The meeting after detailed discussion decided to go for INDEFINITE STRIKE from 19.01.2009, if the Department has not came foreword for settlement of the major demands we already submitted to the Department. The Strike Notice should be served on 5th January 2008 after holding a public meeting all DAE units. It is decided that all affiliates should endorse the strike notice given by the NFAEE and serve the same to the Secretary, DAE through the Head of the units concerned. The meeting also decided that in the name of intervention of Regional Labour Commissioner, the Strike notice given by the affiliated unions and associations should not be withdrawn as the affiliates are endorsing the strike notice served by the Federation and the last movement by the RLC to postpone the strike should not be entertained.
Before serving the strike notice on 5th January 2009, all affiliates should organize campaign programmes from 26.12.2008 to 03.01.2009 and during the period should collect CONCURRENCE LETTER from the employees for their participation in the strike.
Performa for the concurrence letter is enclosed.
All affiliates are requested to send the feedback about the concurrence letter such as the number of employees/members the association/union approached and the number of employees given the concurrence for Strike action etc by 3rd January 2009 itself. A meeting of the Secretariat Members available and the Office Bearers of Mumbai based unions and association will meet on 4th January 2009 and assess the situation before serving the Strike Notice to the Department.
Agenda 3: Call given by the Confederation of Central Government Employees & Workers
Secretary General briefed the decisions taken in the National Executive meeting of the Confederation of Central Government Employees & Workers held on 13th December 2008 at New Delhi and read out the Charter of Demands. In the meeting it was decided to go for indefinite strike from 20th January 2008 and to serve notice to the Government of India as well as to the Departments/Ministries on 2nd January 2009. The meeting observed discrepancies in the Demand on Minimum pay and in the fitment formula as well as the demand on CGHS – insurance scheme shall be optional – The meeting decided to communicate the Confederation of CG Employees & Workers as well as all major affiliates that the demand on Minimum pay and fitment formula is contradicting each other and hence need to be modified before issuing the Strike notice. Similarly we should demand Insurance based Mediclaim or CGHS in Toto and should not be optional.
The meeting endorsed the decision to go for Indefinite Strike with the modified demands and decided to serve notice to the Department on 6th January 2009.
State level Conventions of Central Government Employees shall be held as given below:
25.12.2008 New Jalpaiguri – West Bengal
03.01.2009 New Delhi.
06.01 2009 Bhopal, Allahabad, Bhubaneswar, Ranchi, Trivandrum.
07.01.2009 Lucknow, Nagpur, Ahmedabad, Dehradun, Bangalore, Patna
08.01.2009 Shimla, Hyderabad, Guwahati, Raipur.
09.01.2009 Chennai, Mumbai, Chandigarh, Shillong.
The State Level Conventions going to be held in the places given in BOLD letters are the places where our affiliates to attend.
Agenda 4: To fix the venue, date for the next General Council meeting of NFAEE
The Working Committee decided to hold the next General Council meeting of NFAEE either at Talcher or Hyderabad. Com. Maniachari will discuss with the HWEU Talacher and communicate the possibilities. In the meantime the possibility to hold the General Council Meeting at Hyderbad shall be discussed with NFCEA and Supervisory Staff Association of NFC Hyderabad. The General Council meeting shall be held in the first/second week of February 2009.
Agenda 5: Any other item with the permission of Chairman:
1. All affiliates are requested to complete the donation collection and requested to remit the 50% of the donation collection made from the employees towards the Working Fund before 31st December 2008. Also requested to return the donation books issued by NFAEE.
2. All affiliates also requested to clear the subscription dues before 31st December 2008.
3. Members from NFC enquired about the incident happened on 5th December 2008 at the BARC North Gate with Security Office. Com. A. Sreedharan Gen Secretary AEWSU, BARC briefed the incident and intimated that the issue was taken up with the concerned authorities.
With fraternal Greetings
Comradely yours,
(Jayaraj.K.V)
(Jayaraj.K.V)
Secretary General
Address for Correspondence: Jayaraj.KV, Secretary General, NFAEE
PESS/UED; BARC, Trombay, Mumbai 400 085
Tel. No: (O): 022 – 25594549; (Res): 022 – 2746 4704; (Mobile): 9869501189
Email Address: nfaee@yahoo.com, jrajkv@yahoo.com
FORMAT FOR TAKING CONCURRENCE FROM THE EMPLOYEES
I hereby agree to participate in the INDEFINITE STRIKE action as proposed by the Working Committee of National Federation of Atomic Energy Employees (NFAEE) which is endorsed by the Managing Committee (Executive Committee) of --------------- Union (Association) to pursue the Charter of Demands submitted to the Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Atomic Energy by NFAEE and to the Head of the units by the recognized unions and associations of DAE employees.
Sign: ________________
Name: ________________
Employment No: ________________
Unit: ________________