A meeting of the casual and contract workers engaged in BSNL was held at Jaipur on 25th April 2014. Com. V.A.N.Namboodiri, President BSNLCCWF, Vijay Singh, All India Organising Secretary, BSNLEU, Ashok Pareek, Circle Secretary BSNLEU and other leaders addressed. The issues of the casual and contract workers were explained in detail by Com. Namboodiri.
After detailed discussion, it was decided to organise BSNL Casual and Contract Workers Federation in Rajasthan Circle and Jaipur District. Com. Vijay Singh CHQ Org. secretary was entrusted with the task.
Meeting of Casual and Contract workers at Jaipur
26 Saturday Apr 2014
Posted in BSNLCCWF - Casual and Contract workers, BSNLEU
VAN Namboodiri's Blog 
Dear Comrade,
Was it an All India CEC or Circle CEC of AIBCCWF at Jaipur and if all India meeting, whether any member from Assam attended ? Regarding problms ofCasual Contract Mazdoors, any thing more has been communicated to you ? Before Coming to USA, the new tenders invited by GM Kamrup for engagements of Contractual mazdoors, were partially settled and all the existing contractual mazdoors were re-engaged under new contractors with enhanced wages, but problems of other SSAs were under process. What are the positions of those SSAs, specially Jorhat, Nagaon, Dibrugarh, Silchar and Tezpur are not known to me. In fact GMs of those SSAs were intentionally delaying the finalisations of selecting tenders, so that old wages as fixed three years ago are not revised and the contract Casual Mazdoors are paid low wages. Needless to mention that this is highly irregular, but Circle authorities and Corporate Office are pretending ignorances about it and washing their hands only by Circulating Corporate Offices Orders about payment of wages at new rates by indulging the SSA heads to continue payments of lower wages to Contractual Mazdoors. I feel, if you from the CHQ ask to all SSA Heads separately by filing R.T.I. as to how much wages they are paying to the Contractual Mazddors, Names/Eastablishment of Labour Contractors who are lending Labourers to BSNL, and how much Contractual Mazdoors have been hired by each of them, then those SSA heads may be bound to disclose the facts, since supressing of those will be unlawful and they may also be bound to introduce new rates out of fear.
Thanking you,
Sankar Kumar Das,
Vice President,BCCLU Assam Circle From USA dated 25.04.2014
Dear Comrade Sankardas,
The meeting at Jaipur was the District Conference of the AIBDPA. The opportunity was also used for organising the casual and contract workers.
As far as orders are concerned, most of the orders have been issued by the corporate office and sent below. In certain cases like increase in the wages of casual labour etc., on the basis of the BSNL salary it is yet to be issued. The main task is at the local level where the issues have to be taken with the Asst. Labour Commissioner, Management etc. for implementation of the existing orders. At the all India level, after the general elections, agitational programmes will have to be organised. But for that also the union has to be strengthened.