The Confederation of Newspaper and News agency Employees Organisation (CNNAEO) today demanded that the Supreme Court order on wage revision for employees in newspapers and news agencies should be honoured and implemented by employers and dismissed talk of an “existential crisis”.
The Confederation took exception to the recent comments of Ravindra Kumar, President of Indian Newspaper Society (INS), a body of newspaper publishers, that the newspaper industry faced an “existential crisis” and that it did not need “judicially directed euthanasia”.
CNNAEO General Secretary M S Yadav said in a statement that the INS was now “crying wolf” by suggesting that the apex court’s judgement of Feb 7 upholding the Majithia wage board notification was a “judicially directed euthanasia”. It was part of the anti wage revision policy of the INS and had raised the “bogey of industry collapsing” every time there was wage revision, he said.
Yadav demanded that the INS should stop tactics to “nullify” the wage board order in which the Supreme Court had directed the employers to revise the wages from April one this year and arrears from November 2011.
The CNNAEO said the newspaper industry was growing with its readership and gross revenue doubling during the decade starting 1998.
The CNNAEO has urged the employers not to resort to tactics to deny wage revision to the employees and to implement the Supreme Court judgement in letter and spirit. Otherwise, the sequences will be serious, it said.
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