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DON'T GIVE INTO KHAIYUM'S BLACKMAIL, Chaudhry implores Unions!

20/9/2017

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“What is being forced now on civil servants is in flagrant violation of the right to collective bargaining guaranteed under the 2013 Constitution, the Employment Relations Promulgation (ERP) and the agreement reached between the Fiji Trades Union Congress and the government in the Joint Implementation Report following the complaint lodged by the FTUC with the ILO in 2014. Public Sector unions must insist that government comply with these agreements and respect their members’ right to collective bargaining. Failure to take strong action now will seriously jeopardise the rights and welfare of civil servants and render their unions totally ineffective” - Mahendra Chaudhry

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Don't buckle to Khaiyum's blackmail: Chaudhry to unions

Labour Leader Mahendra Chaudhry has urged Public Sector unions to take a strong stand against the arm-twisting tactics of Attorney General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum to force civil servants to sign new employment contracts to qualify for pay increments.

“This is sheer blackmail and no self-respecting union should condone it. The Attorney General is also misleading civil servants regarding the process governing salary increases in the past,” says Mr Chaudhry who led the Fiji Public Service Association for 29 years as General Secretary before he resigned in 1999.

Mr Chaudhry was referring to claims by Mr Sayed-Khaiyum, at consultations with civil servants in Nausori on Tuesday, that in the past civil servants had to wait up to 10 years to get salary increments of at least 10%.

“This is #absolutely #wrong. Civil servants, in the past, received annual cost of living adjustments with periodic salary reviews through job evaluation exercises. Grading reviews were an on-going process. If employees felt they had been wrongly graded they could take this up at any time to seek a review.

“Unions enjoyed full collective bargaining rights which effectively protected their members from becoming victims of unilateral action as has become so common under the FF government.

“What is being forced now on civil servants is in flagrant violation of the right to collective bargaining guaranteed under the 2013 Constitution, the Employment Relations Promulgation (ERP) and the agreement reached between the Fiji Trades Union Congress and the government in the Joint Implementation Report following the complaint lodged by the FTUC with the ILO in 2014.

“Public Sector unions must insist that government comply with these agreements and respect their members’ right to collective bargaining.

“Failure to take strong action now will seriously jeopardise the rights and welfare of civil servants and render their unions totally ineffective,” said Mr Chaudhry.

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http://fijivillage.com/news-feature/This-is-not-a-charity---Acting-PM--29r5sk/

He says not everybody should get the same pay rise as increments 
will be based on performance
Fijileaks: Does the above statement explain why the former native Fijian Interim Cabinet Ministers were paid less than the Indo-Fijian Ministers (Khaiyum and Dr Neil Sharma) and Frank Bainimarama as
Prime Minister?

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Nur Bano Ali had been appointed the new Pay Mistress; below salaries for 2010; we are holding back details of salaries from 2011 to 2014

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Fijileaks: We have redacted their personal bank account numbers!

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4 Comments
Rajend Naidu
20/9/2017 10:54:51 pm

Editor,
The More Things Change The More They Remain The Same.
After Rabuka's coup civil servants were forced to sign a pledge of loyalty to the Military Government he had installed.
After Bainimarama and Khaiyum's coup and the installation of " true democracy " in Fiji for the first time the civil servants are being forced to sign an employment contract contrary to their right to collective bargaining as guaranteed by the constitution and international labour relations norm.
What kind of true democracy denies the trade union the right to collective bargaining for its membership?
What kind of " true democracy " have Bainimarama and his " right hand man " Aiyaz Khaiyum put in place for the " modern nation state " in Fiji?
Sincerely,
Rajend Naidu

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Chiku
20/9/2017 11:22:35 pm

Legendary boxer Jack Lamotta immortalised in Scorsese's award winning film Raging Bull has died aged 95. He admitted he once intentionally threw in the towel in a fight after arm- twisting tactics deployed by the Mafia.
You have Mafias of different kinds, including the political variety but arm-twisting remain their common speciality.

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Refugee
21/9/2017 08:03:23 am

Mr. Chaudhary, in this instant, is absolutely right in saying what he is.

BUT the bourgeoisie Union Leader responsible for ‘protecting’ civil servants’ rights’ from Kai’s relentless onslaught (since 2006) is seen riding a posh BMW SUV around Suva and elsewhere. What eventually happens to civil servants’ future is of no concern to his whisky bloated head.

Civil Servants are left to peddle their own canoes. And Chaudhary too is an opportunist. Talk is FREE and doesn’t lessen his Haryana Funds. We have all deckho Chaudhary’s unflinching LOVE of money. He didn’t even bother with ‘rice and dhal’ to the very refugees who resurrected Bainimarama’s first attempted failed abrogation of the Peoples’ 1997 Constitution of Fiji. Apart from himself, Chaudhary appreciates no one. And now, no one appreciates him. Very briefly then, Chaudhary is a self-fish, self-serving, ego-centric, greedy, geriatric DICTATOR of FLP. He is just using the union platform to spring back to some significance.

And as to the IP Thief, ' Minister of Everything', Khaiyum - He has had his pay rise via the Charity of aunty Bano - Ha...!

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Refugee
21/9/2017 08:09:43 am

It is blatant that Khaiyum's imposed 2013 guarantees no one nothing. That's a FACT that all the civil servants and their families can very well now see, hopefully. For a good pay-rise, civil servants' need not their Unions but a very charitable aunty - like Kai's aunty Bano.

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