SUBHASH MISHRA
Dhanbad, Dec 28: Two central trade union leaders of Jharkhand – Lakhan Lal Mahto of All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) and Rajesh Kumar Singh of Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS) have been nominated among 14 alternative members for the JBCCI meeting scheduled at Kolkata on January 3 to finalise the 11th coal wage of Coal India Limited miners.
Joint Bipartite Committee on the Coal Industry (JBCCI) is the highest body comprising central trade unions nominees and management representatives to decide the final pay revision of miners of Coal India Limited.
Among 14 alternative members of JBCCI, four each representative have been picked up from Bhartiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) and Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS) and three each from All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) and Central Industrial Trade Union (CITU).
As per the list of alternative JBCCI members released by Coal India Limited (CIL), director of personnel/manpower and industrial relation Rajarshi Dhar following are nominees of central trade unions – Lakhan Lal Mahto, Anit Chakraborty, Haridwar Singh ( All AITUC), Manda Narayan Singh, Sarfaraz Hafeez Baig, Jitendra Singh Sodhi (all CITU), Mazrul Haq Ansari, Jayant Asole, P Madhava Nayak, Arun Pradhan ( all BMS), Riaz Ahmed, RV Raghunandan, Rajesh Kumar Singh ( all HMS).
The 7th JBCCI meeting for the 11th National Coal Wage (NCW) agreement was held at Kolkata on December 1 but failed to reach on consensus. Following disagreement on the Minimum Guarantee Benefit (MGB), representatives of all four central trade unions walked out of the Kolkata meeting.
The Indian National Trade Union Congress, a Cong Party-affiliated trade union was not invited to the meeting due to a factional feud and cases pending in court.
The All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) has strongly protested the statement of Sanjeev Sanyal, Economic Advisory Council to Prime Minister, against the revival of the Old Pension Scheme (OPS).
AITUC national general secretary Amarjeet Kaur has said that the so-called reforms are reducing the tax liability of corporate, and decriminalising various laws for ease of doing business.
“AITUC demands that all the pension schemes be entirely funded by the central government by raising corporate taxes, income tax, restoring wealth tax, succession tax and other”, said Kaur.
