Highlights
A virtual meeting was held between the Publicity and Publication Department and GEFONT Provincial Presidents on the subject of improving the publicity of GEFONT on August 6.
Addressing the meeting, President Binod Shrestha shed light on the policies of GEFONT in terms of publicity and publication and the coordinating role between the provincial committee and the department.
Vice President and Department Head Jitendra Shrestha said that the role of publicity is integral to further strengthen the trade union movement being led by GEFONT.
In the virtual meeting, Publicity and Publication Department Secretary Mahendralal Shrestha gave clarification on the role of the provinces in the work to be done in the coming days.
On that occasion, the GEFONT Province Presidents gave brief information and suggestions regarding the situation in their hand.
178 employees working in the Lumbini Development Fund have been registered in the Social Security Fund.
For the past 3 years, the General Federation of Nepalese Trade Unions (GEFONT) has been taking initiatives to enlist the workers employed on contracts in the Lumbini Development Fund in the contribution-based Social Security Fund. After prolonged effort, Lumbini Development Fund has finally started enlisting workers and collecting funds from August 2024.
An Discussion was held between the officials of the International Domestic Workers Federation (IDWF) and the members of the Home Workers’ Trade Union of Nepal (HUN) on August 3 at the GEFONT Trade Union School in Anamnagar.
The participants are of the opinion that, since the issues of domestic workers all over the world are similar in nature, progress can be made through a united movement.
Welcoming the IDWF delegates in the said interview, GEFONT Vice President Shrestha said that HUN has launched strong movements to establish the issue of domestic workers in the context of Nepal. GEFONT Foreign Department Secretary Smriti Lama, HUN President Chandra Sagar Lama, General Secretary Gyanu KC and other central members and domestic workers were present in the meeting.
Similarly, the Vice President and other members participated under the leadership of Secretary General Adriana Paz on behalf of IDWF.
On that occasion, (HUN) President Chandra Sagar Lama praised the cooperation and solidarity received from IDWF since its inception to help improve the condition of Nepalese home workers.
On the 26th of July, IDWF General Secretary Adriana Paz had a discussion with GEFONT President Binod Shrestha and General Secretary Laxman Sharma at the GEFONT Central Office.
The General Federation of Nepalese Trade Unions (GEFONT) has awarded Rs. 130,000 as compensation to Rita Rana Magar of Airawati Rural Municipality-7, Pyuthan from the agent who scammed her in the matter of foreign employment.
The local agent Om Prakash Singh had taken the victim to Kuwait on a visit visa 2 months prior by exploiting the greed of free visa and free ticket.
She filed a complaint against the agent after the agent demanded a large sum of money to return the victim, who fell ill after regular 18-hour work as a domestic worker, to Nepal.
Janak B.K. from GEFONT Migrant Desk has informed Shramik Khabar that an amount equal to 1 month's salary and flight ticket has been provided at the initiative of GEFONT.
Union Activities
NEST Bhimdatta Nagar Committee demands management of workplace.
Nepal Street Vendors' Union (NEST) Thela Bazar Unit Bhimdatta Municipal Committee has submitted a letter of attention regarding management of workplace in Bhimdatta Municipality.
In the attention letter submitted on the 4th of August, 9 issues including the continuation of the halted building process of Thela Bazar, management of toilets, registration of self-employed workers, confiscation of goods of self-employed workers by the city police, and stopping of house arrests are mentioned.
WHIN Makwanpur holds discussion on contemporary issues and solutions in the labour sector.
A discussion program was held on August 3rd in the assembly hall of GEFONT located in Hetauda under the organisation of Whole Industry Trade Union Nepal (WHIN) Makwanpur District Coordination Committee.
The chief guest of the program Binod Shrestha, president of the General Federation of Nepalese Trade Unions (GEFONT), covered the questions raised by the participants in the discussion and shed light on the current problems and solutions in the labour sector, along with the path to be taken by GEFONT and related unions.
President Shrestha said that labour cutback, complexity of contract implementation, implementation of labour law, effective implementation of contribution-based social security are the challenges in the current labour market and there is a necessity to organise a movement in a new way to solve these problems.
WHIN Central President Anand Thami, Secretary Geeta Bhandari, GEFONT Bagmati Province President Ramhari Nepal, WHIN Central Member Binod Lamichhane and other leaders participated in the meeting hosted by Vishwanath Sanjel under the chairmanship of WHIN Makwanpur District Coordination Committee President Keshav Adhikari.
Tika Ale was elected as the president of Nabun Amarsingh unit.
The Thirteenth Annual Meeting and Seventh Session of the National Beauticians’ Union of Nepal Amarsingh Unit Committee (Pokhara) was held on August 2nd at Buddha Chowk in Pokhara with the main slogan of safe and dignified employment, rights of beauticians.
The aforementioned 7th convention, which was held with the coordinator of GEFONT Parliamentary and Local Level Mina Gurung as the chief guest, elected a committee of 11 people under the presidency of Tika Ale.
In the program chaired by Dipu Thapa, GEFONT National Committee Member and NABUN Representative Council Chief Suman Gurung, GEFONT Gandaki Deputy Secretary and Women's Committee President Sangita Pandey and NABUN Central Member Nur Gurung were guests.
Reconstitution of NABUN Makwanpur District and Hetauda Sub-Metropolitan Committee
General Federation of Nepalese Trade Unions (GEFONT)-affiliated National Beauticians’ Union of Nepal (NABUN) Makwanpur district meeting has reconstituted the district committee.
NABUN Central Secretary Sujana Joshi was the chief guest of the meeting held at Hetauda on August 3rd, in which a 9-member district committee was formed under the presidency of Karuna Adhikari.
Similarly, the Hetauda sub-metropolitan committee has also reconstituted a 13-member committee under the presidency of Samjhana Sitaula on the same day.
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