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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