24 Saturday Jun 2017
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah stated that 11,000 contract workers will be regularised within the next three months. He also stated that the present minimum wages of Rs. 4,000 – 5,000 will be increased to Rs. 17,000.
Assurances are well taken. The government should implements its assurances. The workers will certainly need to fight to get the assurance implemented.
09 Tuesday May 2017
A special Convention of Casual contract workers in BSNL was held at Kannur, Kerala, on 8th May 2017 under the auspices of Kerala BSNL CCLU. More than 100 comrades participated. Com. P.V.Rajan, District President presided. Com.V.V.Krishnan, District Secretary welcomed. The Convention was inaugurated by Com. V.A.N.Namboodiri, All India President, BSNLCCWF. He explained the developments with regards to the demand of the workers, the latest order on minimum wage, VDA, issue of reguarisation etc. Coms. K.Ashokan, District Secretary, CITU, K.Mohanan, Circle Secretary, BSNLEU, P.Manoharan, Asst. Circle Secretary, BSNLEU, Janardhanan, CWC member and other leaders addressed. It was decided to strengthen the organisation by bringing all the workers in the organisation.
Kannur is one of the strongest centre of CCLU.
03 Wednesday May 2017
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I have been away to Kolkata to attend the Circle Conference of AIBDPA Kolkata Circle as also meeting at Telecom Factory and at CTO building (W.Bengal Circle) during the period 25th to 29th April 2017. The conference and meetings were well attended and I addressed them. The latest developments were explained to the employees, pensioners and casual contract workers.
I could utilise the stay in Kolkata during this period to meet some of the veteran senior leaders of the trade union movement. Com. Sisirda, the senior most leader of P&T employees, who is 97 at present, came to the meeting in the Telecom Factory and addressed the workers. Even at this age he is active and we discussed about the latest developments. A copy of the AIBDPA Tirupati AIC Souvenir with my article on Sisirda was handed over to him.
On 26th evening along with Coms. Saibal Sen Gupta, Circle Secretary BSNLEU and Biplab Das, Secretary Co-ordination Committee, I went and met Com. Sukomal Sen, former Secretary General All India state Government Employees Federation and a former M.P. He was not well and is under treatment at home. He was happy to meet all of us and we discussed his health problems and other issues.
On 28th April, along with Coms. Pabitra Chakraborty and Arindo Rai, Asst. Circle Secretary, BSNLEU Kolkata Circle, I visited Com. R.L.Bhattacharjee, Patron, NCCPA at his residence which is about 30 miles away from Kolkata. He is almost bedridden and unable to move out. We had about one hour discussion on the various issues of the pensioners etc.
On 29th morning I went to the residence of late Comrade Moni Bose to meet Com. Jyotsna Bose who is not well. She used to attend all the meetings earlier. I could meet both the families of Coms. K.G.Bose as well as Moni Bose. Com. Babu (s/o KG Bose) and family had visited Kerala last month and he was very happy that all arrangements have been made for his stay etc. by Com.K.Mohanan, CS BSNLEU and other comrades. I had lunch from there and spoke with all the family members.
Com.Ananta Bhattacharjee, President of AIBDPA and a veteran leader was present in the AIBDPA Kolkata Conference and along with Com.K.G.Jayaraj, General secretary, we could discuss some important issues.
During the stay there, I addressed the SNEA comrades, sitting on Hunger strike in Telephone Bhavan as per decision of CHQ demanding settlement of their demands.
This tour to Kolkata was successful,especially in that I could meet the senior leaders. All the circle Secretaries of BSNLEU, Coms. Animesh Mitra (WB), Saibal Sen Gupta (Kolkata), Om Prakash Singh (TF) and Adhir Kumar Sen (TS) along with Com. Biplab Das, Mihir Dasgupta, Swastika Dasgupta, Sandib Banerjee, Pijush Chakraborty, Supriyo Mitra, Arindo Rai, Amitab Chatterjee, senior leaders Comrades Dilip Das, Prabir Dutta, Gouri Haldar – all helped me in duties assigned to me. I could not meet Coms. Tapas Ghosh and Tapos Banerjee, leaders of BSNLCCWF due to their being out of station to attend meetings.
All these comrades are functioning under great strain due to the special situation in W.Bengal. My Congratulations to all of them for their great tradition and committed service to the organisation.
W.
30 Sunday Apr 2017
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Variable DA for contract workers have been increased w.e.f. 01-04-2017 and the orders have been issued by the Chief Labour Commissioner(Central) on 20-04-2017. The orders are put in the website of BSNLCCWF, bsnlccwf.com
Accordingly an unskilled worker in C class city will now get Rs. 359 per day. For semiskilled, skilled and highly skilled as also in B class and A class cities it will be higher. A skilled worker in A class city will get Rs. 653 per day.
Since BSNL Corporate Office has already issued order that there is no necessity to endorse such orders to the circles as they are government orders. Circle Secretaries of BSNLEU and BSNLCCWF should see that these orders are got implemented in full.
28 Tuesday Mar 2017
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There are about 3,000 casual labour, mostly recruited through employment exchange in DOT and now working in BSNL, who have completed about 25 to 30 years of service and are still not regularised. They were fully eligible to be regularised as per the agreement between the Federations and the government at the time of formation of BSNL in 2000. It was only due to the delay and negligence of the field level management in sending the details to the corporate office that these casual labours were denied regularisation. The plea of the Corporate office that they can not now be regularised in view of the Supreme Court judgment in a 2006 case is without substance. Casual labour have been regularised as a special case in many central government departments even after 2006. BSNL can also do the same.
It is only justice and correct that all these casual labour should be regularised with out further delay so that they will get better wages and pensionary benefits for their long period of serving the nation.
23 Thursday Mar 2017
Demanding implementation of the agreement reached last year between the Circle BSNL Management and the CCLU Kerala as also demanding Bonus etc. casual and contract workers organised one day Hunger Strike as per the call of the Circle Unions. Hundreds of workers participated all over the circle.
Hunger Strike was organised with massive participation before the PGM Office in Kozhikode. The programme was inaugurated by Com. P.K.Mukundan, Dist. Secretary CITU Kozhikode. I also addressed and spoke about the demands of the workers and the present position and congratulated for their participation. Comrades M.Vijayakumar, Org. Secretary BSNLEU, K.V.Jayarajan, District President, CCLU, V.Bhagyalakshmi, Convener, Mahila Committee, Asokan, District Secretary CCLU and other leaders addressed.
The Kerala BSNL Management should immediately implement the agreement made with the Union.
19 Sunday Feb 2017
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All preparations are going on for making the Parliament March on 22nd February to be successful. About 2,500 workers will be participating. The March will start from Eastern Court, BSNL Corporate Office, and will culminate in a Rally at Jantar Mantar / Parliament Street. Coms. A.K.Padmanabhan, Vice-President CITU and Tapan Sen, M.P., General Secretary CITU will address the rally. All circle secretaries should inform Secretary General BSNLCCWF (Mob. No. 9433009450) about the actual number of participants from their circle and the dates of their arrival and departure.
17 Friday Feb 2017
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Leaders of BSNLEU and BSNLCCWF met Smt. Madhu Arora, GM(Estt.), BSNL Corporate Office on 16th February 2017 and discussed the various issues of the casual labours.
1. Regularisation – The unions demanded that a scheme be formulated for the regularisation of the casual labour as suggested by the unions.
2. The casual labour be paid the minimum pay of the CDA pay ie. Rs.18,000. GM told that a Committee has been formed and that its report is being studied. The union stated that there should not be any delay in the matter.
2. DA to Casual labour – Orders have been issued. But the union representatives wanted that a direction be issued to the order stating that this is applicable to casual labour also, as some of the circles are not implementing. It was agreed by the GM.
Coms. V.A.N.Namboodiri, President, BSNLCCWF, Balbir Singh, President BSNLEU, Animesh Mitra, SG BSNLCCWF, Swapan Chakraborty, Dy. GS BSNLEU and Tapas Ghosh, Working President, BSNLCCWF participated in the discussions.
17 Friday Feb 2017
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Com.V.A.N.Namboodiri, President, BSNLCCWF, discussed the issue of implementation of the Minimum Wages to the contract workers as per the Gazette Notification of January 2017 with Shri Ashuthosh Gupta, GM (Restructuring) BSNL Corporate Office. He assured that necessary orders may be issued by next week based on the Gazette Notification increasing the wages of the contract workers. The file is be put to the management for the same.
13 Monday Feb 2017
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Massive preparation is going on for the programme of March to Parliament to be held on 22nd February 2017. It is reported that about 5,000 casual and contract workers will participate coming from 20 circles in this programme. BSNLEU has extended full support to the March and their members will also participate along with BSNL casual and contract workers. State level Conventions, Rallies, March to CGMT office, Labour Commissioner etc. are being organised in preparation of the Parliament March. Good response is being received from the casual contract workers for donation collection to meet the expenditure of the March.
BSNLCCWF has arranged accommodation at Garhwal Bhawan, Kali Bari and Ambedkar Bhawan for the outstation participants for 21st February only. The March will start at 10.00 AM from Eastern Court after submission of Memorandum to CMD BSNL and will march to Parliament Street / Jantar Mantar. Com. Tapan Sen M.P., General Secretary CITU, P. Abhimanyu, General Secretary, BSNLEU, Animesh Mitra, Secretary General BSNLCCWF will address and Com. V.A.N.Namboodiri President BSNLCCWF will preside.
Please join the March en mass with the Union Red Flag, festoons, Banners etc. with the demands.
Centre has printed and circulated posters in Hindi and English for wide campaign amongst the members.
Make the Parliament March a big success.
Animesh Mitra,
Secretary General BSNLCCWF
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