Post Card Campaign to highlight Demand for Social Security is inaugurated 

 

New Delhi:  In connection with the May Day Celebrations – 2008 of Labour Commission of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India launched the Post Card Campaign, to all members of Parliament to demand complete and comprehensive social security for all unorganized workers of the nation.  The first step towards this campaign was inaugurated today, May 1^st, 2008, on Workers’ Day, by presenting Post Cards carrying the message of social security by unorganized labourers to Dr. K.S. Manoj, Member of Parliament, who was present during the celebration of May Day at the CBCI Centre. The Government of India has proposed a Social Security Bill for workers in the unorganized sector which is insurance and contributory based and the financial budget for 2008-09 has allocated just Rupees five crores for the social security of 423 million unorganized sector workers whose contribution to the GDP is approximately 65%.  Protests by different social organizations and various Labour Movements including that of the CBCI Labour Commission haven’t resulted in the required amendments in the proposed bill for a complete and comprehensive social security to the workers of this country. 

 

The May Day celebration of the CBCI Labour Commission is also marked by a Seminar on ‘Social Security of Unorganized Workers and Union Budget 2008’, in which people of various walks of life, including, politicians, beaurocrats, employers, social activists and labourers from the unorganized sector were participated.  The celebrations were inaugurated by Dr. S. Shivakumar, President, Commonwealth Law Education Association and Indian Law Institute, Delhi.  May Day Message was given by Rev. Dr. Thomas d’Aquino, Dy. General Secretary, CBCI.  Mr. J. John, CEC,    Ms. Priti Darooka, PWESCR, Dr. R.S. Tiwari, SSN and Mr. Joy Jacob, CBCI Labour  Commission spoke on the occasion.  Rev. Jose Vattakuzhy, Executive Secretary of the CBCI Labour Commission welcomed the participants.

Mayday Message 2008

 

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            While honoring the workers and remembering St. Joseph, the worker, on this international united actions and struggling of the working class for their pressing demands, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) Labour Commission conveys its warm greetings of solidarity to workers and their Unions & Movements in our country. The CBCI Labour Commission wishes all success in the struggle to secure the basic rights and demands of workers, and keeping the dignity of work for better life, peace and security.

           

            The India that we are in today is entirely different from the one in which we were in yesterday. The country is being driven by a number of significant factors such as rapid urbanization, sustained income growth, improvement in the infrastructure, development of storage facilities, better access to information and development of transporting etc. The country has made rapid strides in several areas during the last sixty years. We must proudly say that what we have achieved today is, no doubt, the resultant outcome of the relentless hard working of India’s number one class scientists, engineers, journalists, soldiers, bureaucrats, politicians, doctors, judges, missionaries and visionaries etc.

           

            But we sometimes fail to remember the millions of workers in the unorganized sector, without whom we would not have achieved such progress.  Today we may take the name of the elite class workers but easily forget the contribution of the workers in unorganized sector who were not heeded for long.  This message is an effort to remember and help those workers so that they are duly recognized and approved in the main stream.

 

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