A one-day strike call given by the Confederation of Central Government Employees and Workers left services of post offices in Vellore and Tiruvannamalai district paralysed.
Leading unions such as the Federation of National Postal employees Organisations (FNPO) and National Federation of Postal Employees (NFPE) supported strike. Vast majority of postal employees participated in the strike. Work at two head post offices, 70 sub-post offices and more than 400 branch post offices were affected.
K.Pichandi, Divisional Secretary of NFPE, said Union Ministers Arun Jaitly, Rajnath Singh and Suresh Prabu had assured them that issues in the 7th Pay Commission would be sorted out in four months. Even after months, the issues were not resolved. Hence the strike. “Our demands include increase in minimum pay from ₹18,000 to ₹26,000, scrapping of new pension scheme and giving civil employees status for Village Postal Employees (Gramin Dak Sevaks),” he said.
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A demonstration insisting on the demands were held in front of Tiruvannamalai Head Post Office.