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FMRAI NEWS
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1 NOVEMBER 2014
V I C T O R Y
Industrial Tripartite Committee for SPEs Restored
5 November Victory Day
The Secretariat of FMRAI greeted the field workers of the country, its state and their-subunits,
councils; and expressed gratitude to the central trade unions, other fraternal unions and mass
organizations, medical practitioners and their organizations, particularly the Indian Medical Association,
and the people in general for their solidarity and support to the movement of medical and sales
representatives which resulted in the victory of FMRAI and the field workers of the country when the
Central Government retreated, withdrew their earlier cancellation, restored The Industrial Tri-partite
Committee for the Sales Promotion Employees (ITC-SPEs) and informed the same to FMRAI vide the
Union Labour Ministrys letter No. Z-13025/15/2030-IR (PL) dated 27 October, 2014.
The
ITC-SPEs
was
constituted in January, 2014
after decades long struggle,
including strike, by FMRAI and
consequent to two national
tripar tite meetings as a
consultative
forum
for
implementation, amendments
and expansion of labour laws
applicable to the sales
promotion
employees.
Immediately
after
Modi
government came to power at
the Centre in May, they
selectively dissolved the ITCSPEs in July.
FMRAI alone pursued the
constitution of the ITC-SPEs in
the background of thousands
of victimization of the medical
and sales representatives;
rampant violation of labour
laws, which are applicable to
the medical and sales
representatives; litigations,
agitations
and
serious
disharmony in the vital
pharmaceutical industry.
Again,
only
FMRAI
launched immediate countrywide agitation beginning with 5August Protest Day demanding
restoration of ITC-SPEs. On
that day, 20,000 medical and
sales representative were on
the streets in 290 cities and
towns in almost all states and
union territories in India staging
demonstrations, bringing out
street processions, rallies, twowheeler rallies, burning effigies,
holding public meetings,
staging dharna, and submitting
memoranda to the Lok Sabha
Speaker through district / local
administration. The protest
movement was joined and the
meetings were addressed by
leaders of CITU, local trade
unions and of other mass
organizations.
Subsequently, the medical
and sales representatives
observed
country-wide
Demands Day on 5 October by
wearing demand badge.
FMRAI
notified
the
Government to stage dharna in
front of the Parliament in
November and strike in
December.
Opposing
dissolution,
demanding restoration and
holding of regular meetings of
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Ranbaxy Conference
companies.
DPCO-2013 could not bring
down medicine prices despite
tall claims of the government
as it removed completely
earlier cost-based price control
mechanism and fixed drug
prices by the market prices of
the medicines which are listed
in the National List of Essential
Drugs (NLEM). The price is
fixed just by calculating the
average of selling prices in the
market of those products which
are having more than 1%
market share. The job of the
National
Pharmaceutical
Pricing Authority (NPPA)
remains only in collecting data
of market prices of these
FMRAI NEWS
NOVEMBER 2014
COUNCIL NEWS
In Elder
Wallace Field Workers
Zonal Conventions
73 transfers resolved
33 pending
Council Sub-committee
Meeting at Malappuram
KMSRAs state secretary
P K Santosh inaugurated
the meeting. District
secretary E P Shibu
welcomed
the
participants. A note for
discussion
was
presented by state
council core committee
P K Santosh addressing
member Krishnanunni. The
KMSRAs Tirur unit organized meeting elected the new district
its council subcommittee meeting council core committee with
at Malappuram on 19 September. Suresh Babu as its convener.
NOVEMBER 2014
FMRAI NEWS
STATE NEWS
Maharashtra
125 leading functionaries and
activists of MSMRA from its
three regional committees
including the council leaders from
these regions attended a trade
union class at Amravati on 31
August, 2014. CITUs vice
president and former general
secretary of FMRAI J S
Majumder addressed the
participants as the chief speaker.
He narrated the background of
FMRAIs development; its
organization and movement; and
the subsequent movemental
tactics in todays scenario to face
Uttar Pradesh-Uttarakhand
Haridwar
the challenges of neo-liberalism
in defense of the field workers and
the working class in general. More
than 30 participants asked
different questions which were
GB Meeting in Junagadh
Gujarat
80 members of GSMRAs
Junagadh unit attended their
Odisha
Bihar-Jharkhand
West Bengal
The 31st foundation day of
WBMSRU was observed on 23
September in all 19 districts of
the state by way of hoisting flag
of the organization; organizing
blood donation camps; holding
popular lectures; and arranging
cultural programmes and family
get-togethers. At its state
centre in Kolkata, WBMSRU
flag was hoisted by one of the
vice presidents Sumit Roy.
WBMSRUs general secretary
Sumahan
Chakrabor ty
addressed the participants and
explained the progress of the
organization in terms of
membership and achievements
NOTICES
intensify the movement to resist
attacks on their jobs and
profession and to defend their
achieved rights. The conference
elected a 16 member district
committee with A B S Patro as
Albert David
Date
: 22-23 November,
2014.
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