ALL
INDIA INSURANCE EMPLOYEES’ ASSOCIATION
LIC BUILDING
SECRETARIAT ROAD HYDERABAD
Email: aiieahyd@gmail.com
PRESIDENT: AMANULLA
KHAN Phone: 040-23244595
GENERAL
SECRETARY: K. VENU GOPAL Fax: 04023244597
21ST
FEBRUARY 2013
PRESS RELEASE
MAGNIFICENT
RESPONSE TO THE TWO DAY INDUSTRIAL STRIKE
All India
Insurance Employees’ Association (AIIEA) congratulates the working class of the
county for the magnificent response to the call of the Central Trade unions and
the independent federations for two day nation wide general strike on the 20th
and 21st February 2013.
Two lakhs LIC
and Public Sector General Insurance employees and officers participated in the
two day strike. LIC Agents joined the
strike rallies across the country. The strike was total in the insurance
industry. In LIC the strike percentage was more than 90% across the country. AIIEA congratulates all the employees over
this splendid response to the strike call.
Continued
increase in the prices of diesel, gas, coal, electricity and other essential
goods of the common people has been a serious issue protested by the workers in
this strike. The strike is also a
protest against the total inaction of the Government to address the basic
problems of the workers arising out of the inflation and slowdown of the
economy. Insurance employees also demanded stopping of privatization of PS
General Insurance Companies, withdrawal of the Insurance Laws (Amendment) Bill
which seeks to hike the FDI limit to 49%, and withdrawal of PFRDA Bill.
Insurance employees also demanded immediate recruitment in the LIC and four
Public Sector General Insurance Companies.
The
strike was massive in Insurance, Banking, Petroleum, BSNL, mining, coal,
defence, power, port and dock, Plantation, State and Central Government offices.
Industrial workers all over the country had shut down the production. Public
and private industrial centres have been heavily affected. Unorganized sector
workers, agriculture workers, anganwadi, and ASHA workers have participated in
large numbers. Contract workers have joined the strike in large numbers.
AIIEA
once again congratulates all the workers and employees across the country for
their collective voice against the neo-liberal policies of the government
through this two day strike action.
Sd…K.
Venu Gopal
General
Secretary.
