* NCCPA Calls Upon All Affiliates to befittingly observe 1st October World Pensioners Day by Trade Union International (Pensioners & Retirees)!
* The Circular received from the General Secretary Trade Union International is also given for the information!
NATIONAL CO-ORDINATION COMMITTEE
OF PENSIONERS
ASSOCIATIONS..
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New Delhi. 110 001
PRESIDENT: COM.SHIV GOPAL
MISHRA.(97176 47594)
SECy. GENERAL:
COM.K.K.N.KUTTY. (98110 483030)
Dated: 10th September, 2020
To
All the affiliates, State
Committees, CGPAs, State Cocs.
Dear Comrades,
INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR OLDER PERSONS.
OCTOBER IST.
OR DAY OF ELDERLY.
We send herewith the
circular letter from the General Secretary, TUI (Pensioners and Retirees) of
the World Federation of Trade Unions written in connection with the observance
of International day for older persons . Throughout the world the retirees and pensioners
observe Ist October as a day of
solidarity with all those who fight against exploitation. It is also to express solidarity with all old
people to ensure that the well-being of senior citizens is the responsibility
of the society. To have a decent
standard of living and well looked-after old age is considered an inalienable
human right. Unfortunately few
countries and fewer governments have recognised this right of the old people. The welfare society
concept in fact came into being in the capitalist society to ward off the
threat from the socialist ideology which was pervading in a major segments of
the world in the beginning of the 20th Century. Now that they could obliterate that threat by
foul machinations, In most of the
countries the senior citizens are driven to a wretched life. The world is now fed with the eulogy of free
market, global economy, higher GDP growth rate, mega corporates, super profits
and the consequent tickle down effect to serve the people and rescue from the
misery and agony. The greater the
inequality , prosperous the country is the new propounded theory. In our own country, social security and
pension payment was considered a drain on the economy and a wasteful
expenditure. The next generation civil
servants in the country shall live their retired life in uncertainty and penury
as even their hard earned income would have been gobbled up by the so called
mega corporations with the tacit help rendered by a Government elected by the
same people in the hope that it will look after them.
It was the avalanche of the
renewed idea of exploitation that has compelled many countries to make a relook
into their social security system and ensure its demolition as has happened in
our own country. They are mocking at the
person who made the chair in which the ruler is today sitting. Observance of this day is to rededicate
ourselves to the cause of a struggle to bring in a society sans exploitation;
to have a better evening in the life of a human being and a non-dependent existence.
It was the avalanche of the
renewed idea of exploitation that has compelled many countries to make a relook
into their social security system and ensure its demolition as has happened in
our own country. They are mocking at the
person who made the chair in which the ruler is today sitting. Observance of this day is to rededicate
ourselves to the cause of a struggle to bring in a society sans exploitation;
to have a better evening in the life of a human being and a non-dependent existence.
The world Federation of
Trade Unions and the Trade Union International ( P&R) have called upon us to observe Ist October, 2020 in an
appropriate manner. Not forgetting that we are in the midst of a deadly disease
called corona virus covid 19 pandemic, we call upon our affiliates, State CoCs
CGPAs and our members to organise demonstration by holding the placard, (specimen
depicted hereunder) at-least for an hour. We know that this is a small step in
the direction of the realisation of our dream – a world sans exploitation- but
we are confident from our own experience that our small steps early in our life
has enabled us to leap into giant strides.
With greetings,
Yours fraternally,
K.K.N. KUTTY
Secretary General.
TUI General Secretary's Circular
THE TUI OF P&R
PREPARES THE ACTIONS FOR OCTOBER 1st,
INTERNATIONAL DAY OF STRUGGLE
FOR THE RIGHTS OF PENSIONERS AND
RETIRED PERSONS (P&R)
October 1st was established by the
UN as International Day of Older Persons, or also Day of the Elderly. Since the
creation of the International Union of Trade Unions (TUI) of Pensioners and
Retirees of the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), this date has become a
world day to fight against exploitation, due to the requirement to defend the
rights of pensioners and retirees, for a decent life based on the wealth that
the working class produces every day with its work.
Once again, from the WFTU TUI of the WFTU, we
call all our organizations and friendly organizations to action, in order to
make next October 1st a day of vindication and fight for the rights
of those who have already reached retirement and for the right to worthily
retire for those who have not yet reached this stage of life, whether their
activity has been carried out in the formal economy or in the informal economy.
It is an inalienable human right that, after a
life of work, people of working class and popular extraction can leave their
habitual activity and live with dignity. We qualify a decent life as one in
which, thanks to the retirement pension or the income to which one is entitled,
sufficient resources are available, such as habitable housing, drinking water,
healthy food and health care, culture, leisure and free, quality public
commuter transportation. Today there is enough wealth on the planet for all
this; it is only enough to distribute it fairly, instead of spending it in
imperialist wars.
However, the reality is very different and many
people who should have reached retirement must continue working because they do
not have access to a sufficient pension, while many of those who have retired
cannot have a decent life, a situation that worsens in the case of those who
have been unemployed for a time or have worked all or part of their lives in
the underground economy or in caring for other people, something that
especially affects women.
The real and fundamental cause is the
capitalist, unfair and exploitative mode of production, strengthened after the
temporary defeat of the socialist countries. Currently, the capitalist
governments are promoting new anti-worker measures, against pensioners, the
working class and the people. In general, the working life is extended, the
years of contribution are increased to be entitled to a pension and the amount
received is decreased, all with the final objective of privatizing pensions and
converting into another business for financial capital, what should be a
universal right. That is the meaning of the existence and extension of the
Pension Fund Administration entities (AFP) in numerous countries and the
approval, by the European Union, of the so-called European Personal Pension
Plan (PEPP), which as TUIof P&Rof the WFTU We have denounced (in Europe the
First European Action of the P&R was held on June 17).
In the name of capitalist competitiveness,
retired people and pensioners around the world experience the worsening of
their living conditions and those of their descendants, while social goods are
commercialized and bloody conflicts and wars are promoted (with money from all
citizens) imperialists.
Against
all this, we call for coordinated international action on October 1. We will
fight with unity and common action as the working class, the people and those
who suffer capitalist exploitation, for our immediate objectives, but always
with the perspective of a society without exploitation, oppression, poverty,
war or calamities.
Every October 1st we will demand
that a decent job is guaranteed for all people, adapted to their abilities,
that allows them to live with dignity and generate a decent pension or, if this
fails, that the state budgets assign them a decent pension. without the
humiliating adjective of "non-contributory".
Every October 1st we will go out to
the streets to approve, in the laws and constitutions of the countries, the
obligation of the states to ensure, through public budgets, pensions that allow
all people to retire from their jobs and live worthily.
LONG LIVE
THE FIGHT DAY OF OCTOBER 1st!
LET'S ALL
PARTICIPATE IN IT!
July 2,020
TUI
(International Union of Trade Unions) of Pensioners and Retirees (P&R) of
the WFTU.
