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Lukewarm response to Govt. decision

By Our Special Correspondent

CHENNAI AUG. 13. There was a lukewarm response from various employees associations and unions on Government's decision to derecognise them. They all appealed to the Government to restore their status.

The Tamil Nadu Secretariat Association president, K. Pandurengan, in an appeal to the Chief Minister said already the employees were put to hardship due to termination and suspension. The present move would further aggravate their mental agony. Moreover, the Secretariat Association had been existing since the days of the Madras Rajthani. It always stood for cooperation with the Government in executing various people-oriented programmes. Its services were appreciated by former Chief Ministers like Rajaji, Kamaraj, C. Annadurai and M.G. Ramachandran.

Taking into consideration its long years of existence and services to employees, he wanted the Government to reconsider the decision.

The Tamil Nadu Government Employees Association said it was not proper for the Government to repeatedly attack employees who had already lost much of their perquisites. The Government should not only reinstate 6,072 employees but also withdraw its order derecognising the unions.

The Tamil Nadu Arasu Aluvalar Kazhagam (C&D Group) urged unions to take the derecognition as a lesson and try to have cordial negotiations with the Government in settling their disputes.

The Joint Action Council of Govt Officials and Teachers welcomed the derecognition. The State president, K. Kaliyaperumal, said most of the unions, started with an avowed purpose serving the employees, had turned into money - making organisations. Union leaders, he alleged, tried to project their image during agitations instead of employees' cause. They used unions as a mask to get personal benefits from the Government. Hence the Government, he said, was right in derecognising them.

G. K. Vasan condemns

The AICC secretary, G. K. Vasan, in a statement from Delhi, criticised the derecognition and said it amounted to taking away the basic rights of employees. The Government, he said, should have consulted the Opposition and major trade unions before taking the ``anti-labour'' decision.

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