Date:30/01/2006 URL: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2006/01/30/stories/2006013000541300.htm

Back Pay revision: Central Govt staff to go ahead with strike from March 1

Our Bureau

New Delhi , Jan. 29

CENTRAL Government employees have rejected an appeal by the Cabinet Secretary, Mr B.K. Chaturvedi, to postpone their proposed indefinite strike by a month.

They plan to go on an indefinite strike from March 1 to press for their main demand of setting up of the Sixth Pay Commission to revise their pay-scales.

The Joint Council of Action of the Central Government Employees Organisations (JCA) considered the appeal by the Cabinet Secretary with "all seriousness" at a meeting on Friday. While concluding that the proposal was "unacceptable," the JCA re-affirmed the scheduled action of indefinite strike from March 1.