Sunday, October 23, 2011

Class-III Federation goes wild – we reply

THE USUAL SUSPECTS!

            Old habits die hard. After a brief lull, the Class III Federation has trained its guns on its favourite whipping boy(s), NOINO & NOIW. In its latest circular dated 20th October 2011 on the subject of PLLI, Shri Arvind Nachane, GS of All India Employees’ Federation has launched a diatribe against NOINO/NOIW in a paragraph titled “The Professional rumourmongers”. We quote the relevant paragraphs as they appear in the Federation’s circular:

The NOINO/NOIW had circulated a message on 08-09-2011 that the PLLI for 2010-11 will be—HGA-Rs. 6300---Assistants---Rs. 5500; Record clerks—Rs. 4800; sub-staff—Rs—3900.

    Such unions survive only on the strength of rumours which is their staple food. Today, another message relayed by them conveys: “ Sub-staff results to be announced between 22-10-2011 & 31-10-2011 as per reliable information. No further extension of time is sought by LIC, today” The reality is that the Supreme court has now fixed 7th December as the date for hearing, with 13 petitions in different high courts bunched together.”

           Normally, we would not have reacted to such canards. Our constituencies are totally different & there is no need to lock horns & cross our paths. However, the above remarks were totally uncalled for & unwarranted.

            In the first place, we have never sent such messages. A normal, rationally thinking person can clearly understand that both the messages as quoted above contain nothing pertaining to Class-I Officers & hence NOINO could not have sent these messages. NOINO has never tread into territory of other classes except perhaps to underline & point out the inefficiency of the management in respect of delay in decisions pertaining to other classes, indirectly affecting the Class I Officers thereby. As far as the so-called first message concerning the PLLI is concerned, if at all NOINO had sent this message, there would have been a mention of the so-called amounts of Class I Officers.

           We can understand the frustration of the Class III Federation led by Shri Nachaneji. The sole proprietary rights of rumours, insinuations, white lies, subterfuge & half-baked, concocted, cock & bull stories lay firmly with the Class III Federation from times immemorial & we have no mis-conceptions of usurping their numero uno postion in these areas which over the years the Federation has strode with ease. Everybody knows that NOINO is the organization which they can look up to for authentic information on issues concerning the employees. The above rantings betray the impression of a fallen general fighting a last ditch losing battle to save his sinking ship from receding into oblivion. Attacking NOINO/NOIW may also be a compulsion to stay in the limelight.

            We also understand that this is probably an envious & jealous outburst against the saffron surge amply demonstrated by the huge Maharally organized by NOINO/NOIW at Yogakshem on pending issues. An overwhelming majority of employees were happy to note our efforts in venting their feelings. At this juncture, this attack can only mean one thing--we all know that the Federation has acted as a puppet of the management since long & the anxiety to please its masters may have prompted it to issue such a circular & queer the pitch. We would like to point out to the Federation that our main & common adversary is the section of the management which ignores the issues of employees & not the peer unions. Positive, constructive & healthy criticism is always welcome. However, fighting among ourselves will not help our cause.

           We assure all the officers/employees that we would not be deterred by any such ill-directed vitriolic attacks & continue to fight for the common cause.

7 comments:

  1. Dear Shri.Ganesh,

    Reply is very nicely and aptly worded. Your reply was quite necessary as federation has again started spreading canards after a long lull. These are the very notorious people who hailed emergency in 1975 and helped Govt to nab NOIW activists. Late Shri.S A Dange had declared that the gains of emergency are much more than the losses due to Amendment of Bonus Act, which said Bonus need not be paid to workers if losses are suffered by the industry. As you have rightly put in your circular-Federation is being played in the hands of LIC Mgt.

    Ashok joshi
    GS, NOIP

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  2. Sir,

    BMS was the first one who conveyed me my selection in LIC as an assistant in 2009, it’s since that day I have been associated with NOINO as they(BMS) were the first one to let me know about the AAO (DR) recruitment and today I am here associated with the only Class-I union.

    Rima Kakirde
    AAO(PS), 925
    Mumbai DO-4

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  3. No one had sent such SMS to us as they have said in their circular. We always get genuine information from our union, may not be the first. During charter time also, our friends used to ask us "what is the information you people have?" Many of them were not the members of our union. It clearly means that the masses are looking our union as "GENUINE". And we are proud of it.

    Vaidehi Joshi
    HGA, Mumbai DO 1

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  4. Dear Ganeshji,

    Namaskar. Circular is very well drafted, very straight, frank and pointed. Definitely it will hit the target.

    N.Umesh Prasad
    OS, NOIW

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  5. We had come across the cicular issued by Shri Nachaneji on 21st instant & were grieved over his venom-spitting habit. You have, as per our expectations, promptly refuted the contents. Thank you & wish you a happy Deepavali.

    K G Terwadkar
    President, NOINO Kolhapur unit

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  6. NICE ONE.

    JUST LOVED THE GRAMMATICALLY CORRECT AND APPROPRIATE ENGLISH LANGUAGE BY AN EXCELLENT MARATHI SPEAKER

    SHWETA RAIKAR
    AAO, P & GS/CO

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  7. Federation has the habbit of fighting unions . They don't do any good to their members .

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