It was 47 years back on 24th November 1954 that the united organisation of National Federation of Posts and Telegraphs Employees (NFPTE) was born. All the existing unions/association in the Posts and Telegraphs including Union of P&T Workers (UPTW) merged for bringing the new organisation. It was as per an agreement with the Government that this unification was brought. The then Communications Minster, Shri Jagjivan Ram, took a pivotal role in this realignment scheme.
NFPTE was one of the foremost union not only in Central Services, but in the entire government employees for having taken a correct trade union line, thus building a mighty union. Under the able leadership of Comrade Bhupendra Nath Ghosh (B.N.Ghosh), the first Secretary General, NFPTE became the leadeing light of government employees.
NFPTE was bifurcated in to NFPE and NFTE after the Department of Posts & Telegraphs was divided in to Department of Posts and Department of Telecommunications, in 1985.
The leadership of NFTE took revisionist line and was defeated in 1991 at Bhopal All India Conference of E.III Union to the progressive leadership headed by Comrades Moni Bose and V.A.N.Namboodiri.
When BSNL was formed, BSNL Employees Union was formed by the progressive leadeship and J.N.Mishra became the President and V.A.N.Namboodiri the General Secretary. BSNLEU fought many struggles and ensured two very good wage revisions and Promotion Policy for the non-executives. The government’s proposal for disinvestment and VRS were defeated till now.
In the four consecutive membership verifications, BSNLEU became first and is the recognised and representative union in BSNL.
BSNLEU will make all efforts to advance the interests of the workers and also will be part of the mainstream of the workers.