FIGHT AGAINST THE POLICY
FIGHTING FOR THE ALTERNATIVE
Postal
employees have always taken it as their motto to render best possible
services to the people at large. We are conscious of our duties and
responsibilities to the Nation. Inpsite of all limitations, we shall
continue to discharge our duties towards the people and the Nation. But
on the same breath, we want to make it clear that contended staff are
always an asset to the Nation and discontentment if allowed to grow, it
is bound to affect the services. We do claim that further improvement in
the services can be brought out if joint endeavours are made by both
Administration and unions. While we have successfully built up a strong
movement through our united efforts, we do claim to maintain cordial
relations with the administration at different levels –
branch/Divisional/Circle and All India.
But our
experience hitherto shows that maintaining cordial relation with
administration alone will not solve the basic problems faced by the
Postal employees. Most of the issues agitating the minds of the Postal
employees are due to the overall policy of the Government. Proposed move
to permit entry of private sector into Postal services by granting
licences to the transnational courier companies, Denial of legitimate
rights of the Gramin Dak Sevaks including Civil Servant status and
bonus-parity, Non-payment of revised wages to the casual labourers,
unjustified abolition of vacant Posts, Refusal to appoint Seventh Pay
Commission and Inclusion of GDS under its purview, merger of 50% DA,
inhuman 5% restriction on compassionate appointments, introduction of
share-market oriented contributory Pension Scheme, non-removal of bonus
ceiling, downsizing, outsourcing, contractualisation, corporatization
etc are all directly linked with the polices of the Government. Inspite
of our sincere cooperation, if things are not moving in the proper
direction, we have to be ready for a serious course of action. We can
never allow the situation to continue like this which is bound to cause
deterioration in services and also adversely affect the interest of the
employees. We should analyse and understand the root cause of the
problems and shall find out remedy.
The logic of
the neo-liberal reforms is maximization of profit and minimization of
cost of labour as well as people. Being a capitalist agenda, it operates
in that direction in a spontaneous manner. It maximizes profit by
keeping the wages suppressed and also by generating a huge army of
unemployed as reserve, to facilitate such suppression of wages. Under
neo-liberal order it promotes speculation to multiply profit, thereby
further aggravating unemployment, price rise and poverty. When it falls
into crisis, as have happened at the present juncture, it seeks to shift
the entire burden of the crisis to the people and workers. That is why
our genuine demands are denied. Hence the fight against the
galobalisation policies assumes paramount importance. We have to change
this policy and we should continue our fight for an alternative policy.
Alternative to
the imperialist globalization policy is nothing else but socialism,
complete emancipation of society from all exploitation. Change in the
system, or transition of the society, does not happen automatically. The
working class, including the Postal employees, has to play a pro-active
role in intensifying the struggle and prepare itself to lead the
struggle for change in the system. It has to sharpen the struggle
further, unifying the entire working class against the neo-liberal
policies and rally the people around it to achieve the change. When
struggle intensifies, at some point of time they may concede some of our
demands. But that is not the end. We should continue our struggle
further, till these policies are reversed completely and an alternative
system comes into existence. For this we should elevate the
consciousness of the workers and heighten the quality of the struggle
further. Let us have a clear understanding that the fight against the
policy is nothing but fighting for an alternative in the long run, an
alternative society which bring an end to the exploitation of one human
being by another. Therefore our present day activities must continue to
target the present exploitative system, expose its anti-people,
anti-working class character.
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