AISGEF is affiliated to Trade
Union International of Public & Allied Employees and shoulders the main
burden of conducting its central work at the TUI Hd. Qrs at New Delhi and
at the Calcutta office of TUI. Besides these, it maintains close
connection with different other international trade unions.
National
working womens convention an inspiring event
The first National Convention of
Working Women under state governments organised by the All India State Government
Employees Federation was successfully held at Madurai on 27-28 January 2001. About
400 women delegates from 13 states and one union territory including Maharashtra, Kerala,
Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tripura, Orissa, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan,
Haryana, Punjab, West Bengal and Pondichery attended the convention. This womens
convention was attended by nurses, teachers, clerical and technical staff under various
state governments and Anganwadi workers.
The conference was inaugurated by Smt.
Mythili Sivaraman, the Working President of All India Democratic Womens Association.
She insisted on implementing the Supreme Court guidelines to stop sexual harassment.
Thereafter 36 delegates who participated in the discussion enriched the discussion paper
with their struggling experiences and also projected the demands and problems to be
attended by the organization in future.
The Convention approved a charter of
demands with specific organizational tasks and a clear perspective for the future movement
towards attaining equal rights and status for women as well as eradicating all forms of
gender discrimination.
Sukomal Sen, General Secretary, AISGEF summed up the
discussion.
Historic
strike on 10 January 2001
More than six million State
Government employees, teachers, Board, Corporation, Panchayat, Zilla Parishad and
Anganwadi workers observed a countrywide strike on 10 January 2001 at the call of All
India State Government Employees Federation. The strike was called in protest
against the policy of privatisation, downsizing, retrenchment and selling out of
government departments and public sector units, being followed by the Central and some
State Governments at the dictates of IMF-World Bank and WTO.
The strike was a grand success in the states of Kerala,
Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Orissa, Punjab and West Bengal. Good response to the strike call
was also received from the states of Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh,
Karnataka and Rajasthan.