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Four contract workers in BSNL have been arrested and put in custody/jail for going on agitation protesting against retrenchment and reduction of working hours. After the issue of minimum wages and social security benefits were taken in the Parliament Standing Committee on Labour by the union and as a result the BSNL managment has issued strict instructions to implement the same, the local level management in many places in connivance with the contractors have started retrenching the contract workers. This is being resisted by BSNLEU and BSNL Casual & Contract Workers Union. Agitations are taking place in many SSAs against these attacks on the contract workers. At Bongaigaon (Assam) also, such an agitation was going on for some days. Now the contractors and management in conspiracy has filed false complaints against the agitating workers and got four of them arrested and kept in custody/ jail.
As President of BSNLEU as also BSNL C&CWF, I have taken up the matter with the BSNL management as also written letter to the Sr.GM (Admn) who is in charge of the contract workers issues.
If the issues are not settled, there is no other way but to intensify the struggle.
VAN Namboodiri's Blog 
Retrenchment of contract workers is also going on in Jorhat (Assam) SSA. I was working in CCN at Golaghat dist. Under Jorhat SSA and doing all mobile related works (1st. and 2nd level) from 2004 at a low salary and suspended from the job on 31st of Dec/10 (GM’s order). Now I am very depressed. What should I do. So kindly review the issue in Jorhat SSA too.