Our Correspondent
Kohima | January 9
All India Postal Employees Union (AIPEU) Nagaland division joined the two-day nationwide strike on January 8 and 9.
Staging day two strike at the Head Post office premises here, AIPEU-P III, Nagaland division secretary Daniel Domeh said that the strike was called by Confederation of Central Government Employees & Workers and National Federation of Postal Employees, urging the authority concerned to implement various charters of demand.
More than 1000 employees from 300 post offices across Nagaland joined the strike, said Domeh.
Normal postal services have been affected due to closure of post offices across the state.
Among the many charter of demands includes; scraping of new contributory pension scheme, restoring old defined benefit pension scheme to all employees, settle 7th CPC related issues including increase in minimum pay and fitment formula, fill up all vacant posts, reintroduce regional recruitment for Group B & C posts, withdraw orders for abolishing posts lying vacant for more than five years, revive all posts abolished during 2001 to 2008 under Annual Direct Recruitment plan as per May 2001 orders of former NDA government, regularization of Gramin Dak Sevaks and grant of Civil Servant Rules status, regulate all casual and contract workers, ensure equal pay for equal work for all, remove disparity in pay scales between central secretariat staff, stop closure of government establishments and outsourcing, implement 7th CPC wage revision and pension revision of autonomous body employees and pensioners, remove 5% condition imposed on compassionate appointment, grant five time bound promotion to all Group B &C employees, stop attack on trade union rights etc.
