The VII Membership Verification has shown that 6.10 % of the employees ( 9980 employees out of a total number of 1,63,820) has not participated in the membership Verification. This is very high absentee % for such an internal secret ballot, for which all unions have made extra-ordinary campaign for about two months. Of course, in all the verifications, there have been absentees.
The lower % of voting has an adverse effect on the results of the verification in BSNL, since the % of votes received by each union is shown as compared to the total votes, instead of the polled votes. Compared to polled votes, as is calculated in the Parliament, Assembly elections etc., BSNLEU has got 52.77%, NFTE 34.03%, FNTO 5.65% and BTEU 3.15%, while according to the declaration of the results based on total votes is only 49.56%, 31.97%, 5.31% and 2.0% respectively.
The unions from the first membership verification has been demanding that the % should be based on the polled votes only. The present results are already over. But at least from the next on wards, the method needs to be corrected. The recognised unions should take up the issue as many other methods to be corrected as pointed out in this blog, including the increasing of number of council members to 20, which was also demanded earlier.
VAN Namboodiri's Blog 
Dear Sir,Such a large number of absentee of the voters clearly shows the health of our majority of workforce. Most of the workers are in the last leg of their service. Most of them are facing retirement. Several medical problems are there with him or in the family. Company sponsored periodical health check of all the employee is necessary. There is acute shortage of young work force in group c &d cadre. Company should also start recruitment process in these cadres for betterment of services.
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50 or 60 is not a big age now. People are living to an average of 75 or above and the 50 and above workers are comparatively healthy, compared to earlier times. Marriages, sickness, urgent engagements etc.will be there. Still the % could be increased if there is determination and maximum effort.Of course, 93% is far better compared to many other elections.
Congratulation sir but there is some fact that the union leader attitude in ssa are very irresponsible the work of employees are not entertained by local leader & it is not possible to say higher leader so the people who don,t want to vote there thinking is what will happen if we will not vote so the attitude of local leader may be changed if we say about our problem they tells in management tone than how it is possible to change the mind of voter so sir sorry to say the fact which we are facing thanks
On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 6:49 PM, VAN Namboodiris Blog wrote:
> vannamboodiri posted: “The VII Membership Verification has shown that 6.10 > % of the employees ( 9980 employees out of a total number of 1,63,820) has > not participated in the membership Verification. This is very high absentee > % for such an internal secret ballot, for which all ” >
you discuss these issues with the local leaders or the district leaders so that the problems can be solved.
The % of votes should be calculated according to the number of votes polled. I too agree with you sir.
Dear Comrade,
This was pointed out when the new recognition rules were being framed. But some how, it was not agreed to by the BSNL Management. One more effort can be made for the same from the next election.