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Federation of Medical and Sales Representatives' Associations of India - News November 2012
Federation of Medical and Sales Representatives' Associations of India - News November 2012
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Defying TMC governments attempt to put embargo by lastmoment cancellation of earliergranted permission; more than 3500 FMRAI members from West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Assam and other N.E. states began their procession from Ramlila maidan, marched through central Kolkatas main streets and reached to Park Circus maidan on 8 October in pursuance of their pending demands to Central and State governments and the employers including the major demands for enforcement and amendment of laws, appointment letters in Form
A as in SPE Act, framing of working rules etc.; drug price reduction and control, for minimum wages, working time etc. West Bengal government underestimated the mood of the field workers. The administration, in tune with their character in suppressing the democratic and trade union movement, even was reluctant to permit alternative venue, suggested by FMRAI leaders. But, undaunted field workers took out the rally which was flagged off from Ramlila Maidan and culminated at Park Circus Maidan, passing through
entire CIT Road. The rally was colourful with tableau, placards, banners and red flags. Former Left Fronts labour minister and CITU leader Anadi Sahoo, WBMSRU president Rabin Dev, FMRAIs joint general secretary A. K. Banerjee, secretary Sanjay Chatterjee addressed the mass meeting. FMRAIs vice president Deepak Bhattacharjee presided over the meeting. The field workers have already organized rallies in districts and state capitals; and now zonal mobilizations and rally culminating in country-wide general strike on 4 December.
Demanding settlement of pending charters of demands, constitution of grievance redressal forum as per Industrial Disputes (Amen-dment) Act, 2010, appointment letters in Form A of SPE Act to all and other company specific demands, 8289 out of total 11347 i.e. 73 % field workers irrespective of divisions and designations of ICPA, Micro Lab, AFD, Indoco, Alkem, IPCA and Alembic struck work in two phases- on 21 September and 5 October. The managements of
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An Appeal
FMRAI News requests its readers, subscribers, well-wishers and FMRAI members to send to Operational Office of FMRAI, Kolkata, in case any old photographs, video film or any other document related with field workers movement are in possession with them which may be utilized on the occasion of Golden Jubilee year Conference of FMRAI to be held at Kolkata during 4-7 February, 2013.
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Comrade Prabuddha Kumar Gautam
Comrade Prabudhha Kumar Gautam, 23, a field worker working in R e s p i c a r e division of G e r m a n Remedies and a member of Laheriasarai unit of BSSR Union met a tragic road accident and died on spot on 29 Septem,ber, He left behind his two younger brothers and parents. FMRAI mourns the untimely death of Comrade Prabudhha Kumar Gautam and sends heartfelt condolence to the bereaved members of the family. Pharma and a member of North 24 Parganas district unit of WBMSRU, passed away on 24 September at Kolkata. She was suffering from Dengue fever and admitted in a private clinic where she died. She left behind her parents, elder brother and sister. FMRAI mourns the untimely death of Comrade Jhuma Debnath and conveys heartfelt condolence to her bereaved family members.
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USV field workers, differently designated and working in multiple divisions of the company, will resort to two days strike on 28 and 29 November demanding grievance committee for all, regularization of jobs of franchisee field workers and opposing victimizations, illegal wage cuts, imposition of indiscriminate working conditions including reporting system and on other pending demands. The USV all India council committee meeting, held on 19 September in New Delhi noted that USV management was non-responsive towards FMRAIs efforts of resolution of issues bilaterally which compelled the field workers of the company to resort to industrial actions. On strike days, massive demonstrations will be organized in front of companys establishments throughout the country.
A.K.Padmanabham, FMRAI president R.Vishwanathan, its secretary R.P. Singh and working committee member Amitava Guha. DSMRO general secretary T.K.Mitra concluded the meeting. From Delhi, the flag was carried to Haryana by R Viswanathan and R P Singh and was handed over to Gurgaon unit secretary on the following day, 18 Septemebr. The flag then moved in Rohtak , Hissar and Rewari. In all the places more than 200 members participated in the unit general meetings which were addressed by Haryana state co-ordination committee leaders Vijay Malik, Prashant Madan, Sunil Dalal, Manoj Kumar, Balvinder Singh, Atul Kumar besides FMRAI leaders. Haryana state CITU general secretary Surender Malik addressed at Rohtak. From Haryana on its way to Himachal Pradesh, Golden Jubilee flag reached Chandigarh and was hoisted at Cheema Bhawan on 24 September by unit president S. D. Agnihotri. CITU state general secretary Raghunath singh and state president Vijay Misra attended and congratulated FMRAI for fifty years of relentless struggle for the field workers cause. PCMSRU general secretary Shiv Awasthy also addressed on this occasion. In Himachal Pradesh, FMRAI secretary, R.P.Singh handed over the Golden Jubilee flag to HPMRA president Hukam Sharma on 2 October. Following hoisting the flag by Shimla unit president Chaman Thakur, a general body meeting was held at Kali Bari, which was attended by 121 members. CITU leaders, HPMRA general secretary Jagdish Thakur, its vice president P.K.Sharma, secretary Narendra Kaushal; FMRAI secretary R. P Singh and leaders of other f r a t e r n a l organizations addressed the meeting. Shimla unit, on this occasion, also organized a blood donation camp which was inaugurated by the Mayor of Shimla, Sanjay Couhan. Around 81 units of blood donated by HPMRA members. From Shimla the flag was taken to Mandi by general secretary Jagdish Thakur and Simla similar programme was organized there next day. Golden Jubilee flag then moved to Hamirpur, Kangra, Dhramashala and ended at Jassur on 6 October. R.P.Singh and Sanjeev Mahajan brought the Golden Jubilee flag From Jassur to Srinagar on 7 October and handed over to the Jammu and Kashmir co-ordination committee members Mohd. Khursheed and Mufti Moin in presence of Srinagar based council leadership. FMRAI secretary Sanjeev Khandelwal was also present on the occasion. The flag then moved to Sopore in the morning and in the evening to Anantnag on 8 and to Jammu on 9 October. In all the places, general body meetings took place, attended by around 400 field workers and were addressed by CITUs J&K state general secretary, Ohm Prakash, FMRAI secretary R. P. Singh, PCMSRU leader Sanjeev Mahajan and co-ordination committee leaders Md. Khursheed, Md. Samiullah, Arun Basotra, Paramdeep Singh and Ravi Kumar. In all the places, members took the pledge to increase membership to achieve FMRAIs one lakh membership objective.
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On 23 September, 1984, two organizations in West Bengal, WBCRU and WBSSRU were merged and formed WBMSRU, a single organization for the field workers in West Bengal, under the guidance of CITU and FMRAI. Since then, the day is being observed as Foundation Day by WBMSRU throughout the state.
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these companies remained insen-sitive to the democratic aspirations of the field workers and their reluctance to concede the just demands which forced the field workers of these seven companies to resort to strike. Based on common features and to take common movemental appro-ach, councils are grouped by FMRAI. FMRAIs charters of demands are pending in nine including these seven companies. Strike notices were not served in Intas and Macleod due to some developments at bilateral level.
AFD
The strike in AFD was total in West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, North East states, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Kerala and was partial in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Tamilnadu on 21 September. Out of total 247 field workers of the company, 220 abstained from field on that day. Dharnas and demonstrations were held at Howrah, Patna, Jaipur, Trissur, Bengaluru and Guntur in front of companys establishments.
Guntur Srinagar
& Kashmir, Punjab & Chandigarh, Bihar, Jharkand, MICRO LAB 1411 field workers differently designated of Micro Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Lab, across all divisions of the company from Jammu Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, North East states, Odisha, Maharashtra, Tamilnadu, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh struck work on 21 September. Massive dharna and demonstrations were held in front of companys establishments at Kolkata, Patna, Vijaywada, Bhubaneswar, Guwahati and Cochin. Memoranda were also submitted. In Srinagar, demonstration could not be held because of curfew. However, 15 Micro field workers assembled at a place on the strike day.
Vijaywada
ICPA
The strike in ICPA on 21 September was successful. Out of 198 field workers, 144 abstained from the field on that day ignoring threats of the line managers. Dharnas and demonstrations were held in front of company s C&FA at Patna, Cuttack, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Guwahati, and Kochi.
INDOCO
Out of 1433 field workers of Indoco Remedies, 1206 field workers throughout the country abstained from field on 5 October. On the strike day, a massive demonstration was organized in front of companys head office at Mumbai. Dharnas and demonstrations were also held in front of companys establishments at Kolkata, Guwahati, Patna, Cuttack, Jaipur, Ambala, Ernakulam, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Raipur and Indore.
Gurgaon
ALKEM
Out of total 1754 field workers, 1658 were off from the field and made the strike in Alkem on 5 October a grand success. In front of companys head office at Mumbai, massive dharna was held and was inaugurated by FMRAI working committee member T V Shridhar. A delegation met the management and handed over a memorandum. During discussion, management informed the delegation that shortly they would call eight member committee for discussion. Dharnas were held at Kolkata, Guwahati, Jaipur, Ernakulam, Bengaluru, Vijayawada and Hyderabad. FMRAI and state leaders including Bijan Das, Alok Ganguli, Paul Verghese, L. M. Peshwa, A Nageshwar Rao, P R K Reddy and Alkem council leaders including Mohan C. Nair, A Laxmi Narayan addressed the gate meetings. In Tamilnadu, district
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committees of TNMSRA staged dharnas with striking field workers in front of companys distributors. Because of curfew, dharna could not be organized in Jammu & Kashmir. However, 30 out of total 31field workers resorted to strike.
IPCA
The 5 October strike in IPCA was unprecedented. Dharnas and demonstrations were held in front of companys establishments at Kolkata, Nagpur, Nasik, Patna, Ranchi, Cuttack, Hyderabad, Simla, Chennai, Lucknow, Varanasi, Guwahati, Agra, Trivandram, Jaipur and Kochi.
Ravindra Shukla inaugurating. Seen-J S Majumdar, S Khandelwal, H Syal, R Galav, Anjani Sharma and others
In a colourful function, the State office of Rajasthan Medical and Sales Representatives Union (RMSRU) was inaugurated by CITUs Rajasthan state general secretary Ravindra Shukla on 28 October at Jaipur in presence of entire state leadership of RMSRU, all 15 unit secretaries, Rajasthan based FMRAI general council members and hundreds of Jaipur unit members. J.S.Majumdar, former FMRAI general secretary was the chief guest. Leaders from different fraternal organizations including CITU, AIDWA, DYFI, AIIEA, Roadways Union, Janwadi Lekhak Sangh, University Teachers federation were present on this occasion. After ribbon cutting, RMSRU flag was hoisted by its president. Later, public meeting was addressed by R. Shukla, J.S. Majumdar apart from RMSRU president H.Syal and general secretary S.Khandelwal. This office is situated in a prime location, 2 kilometre away from Jaipur railway station. This is the third own office premises of RMSRU after Kota and Jodhpur. After the inaugural function, a trade union class was held, which was attended by 45 leaders including state office bearers, extended state committee members and council leaders.
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Alembic
73 % Alembic field workers, 1550 out of total 2115, abstained from field and made the 5 October strike successful. The strike was total in West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, North East states, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Punjab, J&K, Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Kerala. Strike was successful in Maharashtra except Mumbai city and was partial in Gujarat, Delhi, and Tamilnadu. Dharnas was staged and gate meetings were organized in front of companys establishments at Kolkata, Cuttack, Patna, Guwahati, Jaipur, Raipur, Indore, Mumbai, Cochin, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Vijayawada. Leaders of FMRAI, state units and Alembic councils addressed those meetings.
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