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Bonus Orders issued by BSNL

07 Friday Oct 2016

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The sustained efforts and timely intervention of BSNLEU leaders have resulted in issue of orders granting bonus to the employees before Puja/Dussehra/Navaratri, Muharram. On 06-10-2016(yesterday), Com. V.A.N.Namboodiri, Patron and Com. Swapan Chakraborty, Dy. General Secretary met CMD BSNL, Director(HRD) and also Additional Secretary, DOT and demanded that the Bonus should be ordered this week itself so that the employees will get the same before the festivals.

It has the desired results. Necessary meetings like Remuneration Committee, BSNL Board were held urgently and the orders for payment of Bonus of Rs.3,000 as agreed between the management and the recognised unions have been issued. The casual labour also will get the Bonus as demanded by BSNLCCWF leaders, when they met the CMD BSNL a few days back.

Congratulations to all comrades for achieving the desired results!

Meeting with GM(Restructuring) on Contract workers’ issues

05 Wednesday Oct 2016

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Com.V.A.N.Namboodiri, President, BSNLCCWF met Shri A.M.Gupta, GM(Restg), BSNL C.O. and discussed about the non-settlement of issues of contract workers in many circles. He pointed out that the contract workers in Jharkhand are not being paid full wages. Instead of making payment through cheque or accounts as per orders of the CMD BSNL, they are being paid in cash to avoid scrutiny. In UP(East) Circle, despite bringing the non-payment of minimum wage and non-implementation of EPF and ESI to the notice of the corporate office, the issues remain still unsettled.

GM(Restructuring) stated that several instructions have been issued and that Corporate Office is monitoring the cases. He assured that necessary action will be taken to implement the orders at the field level. Comprehensive orders are also being issued.

Meeting with Director(HR) and GM(Estt.) BSNL on casual contract labour issues.

03 Monday Oct 2016

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Com.V.A.N.Namboodiri, Presidnt BSNLCCWF met Smt. Sujata Ray, Director (HR) BSNL on 3rd October 2016 and discussed issues of casual and contract workers including payment of bonus, Implementation of gratuity to casual workers, wages for the casual labour on the basis of government decision on VII CPC recommendations etc. Com.Namboodiri met Smt. Madhu Arora, GM (Estt.) also and discussed the same issues. Both of them assured that favourable action is being taken for settling the issues. With regard to the pay of casual labour, the Remuneration Committee is looking in to the matter. The gratuity issue will be put in the next board meeting, the date for which is yet to be fixed. It could not be discussed in the meeting held on 28th September.

BSNL completes 16 years excellent service to the people! Congratulations to all!

30 Friday Sep 2016

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Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), the telecom PSU, has completed 16 years of committed service to the people of this country.

It was on 1st October 2000 that BSNL was formed by separating the service portion from the Department of Telecom. It was against the wish of the employees, but leaders of the three federations agreed for the same on certain assurances from the government.

The first 6-7 years saw the continued growth of BSNL surpassing the private telecom companies, one after another, despite the fact that the latter were granted licence to provide mobile services more than 6 years earlier.The revenue increased up to Rs.40,000 crore, the profit more than Rs.10,000 crore and many new connections increasing every month. This was not to the liking of the private companies and corporates as also the government. The government stopped procurement of equipments by BSNL to provide connections for which there was huge demand, took away all the funds of BSNL on one pretext or another and provided all assistance to the private companies. BSNL did not collapse completely only due to the committed workforce which through sustained struggles and hard work  kept BSNL alive and growing.

After four years of loss, BSNL has got operational profit in 2014-15 which increased in 2015-16 to Rs. 3,000 crore. Still the company is in loss due to the depreciation of about Rs.3,000 crore. The programmes like ‘Customer Delight Month”, ‘Service With A Smile’ etc. initiated by the BSNLEU and Forum and co-ordinated by BSNL Management as also special packets like ‘free night service’  has gradually made the company better and will be profitable by 2018.

But the government continues its anti-PSU policy. On the basis of the report of the Niti-Ayog, government is moving for the strategic sale of BSNL and MTNL. The BJP government wants to close/sell all the PSUs to repay and satisfy the corporates who supported them and donated in the elections.

But the workers will never allow the government to implement its black agenda. 2nd September 2016 strike has been a strict warning to the government.

The number of employees have been reduced since formation of BSNL from  3,50,000 to 2,10,000 due to non-recruiting of staff in the large number of vacancies resulted by retirement.

BSNL Employees Union, which has been the recognised union  from 2004 onwards has taken initiative to organise the executive and non-executive unions under the JAC/ Joint Forum / Forum and fought many battles to keep BSNL alive and to strengthen it. Unfortunately, the Forum is divided now, with NFTE forming another Forum. Separate agitations are being organised for the same demands. Top leaders of all the unions have to discuss and come together as earlier to fight for the revival of BSNL .

when the BSNL and workers celebrate the 16th anniversary of the the telecom PSU, they are faced with many challenges. It is only through the united struggles of the workers and continuous vigil that BSNL can be brought back to its past glory. Let  all the workers and the management dedicate themselves to this noble task. UNITY FOR STRUGGLE, STRUGGLE FOR UNITY AND STRUGGLE AND UNITY FOR PROGRESS!

On this 16th anniversary of the formation of BSNL, we convey our Warm Greetings to all! Let us continue our struggle for better service to the people and safeguarding the interests of the BSNL workers, Pensioners and contract workers, who are the backbone of the company!

 

Massive Dharna by Casual Contract workers

27 Tuesday Sep 2016

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As per the decision of the Central Executive Committee of BSNLCCWF, massive dharnas were held today, 27th September by the casual contract workers in many centres with massive participation. In Kolkata more than 500 comrades participated. In Kerala dharna was organised in all the  districts with large number of workers participating. In T.Nadu also it was not different. In W.Bengal, Karnataka, Maharashtra, M.P., Odisha, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and other states also the dharna was well organised.

The demands included a minimum wage of Rs.18,000, implementation of EPF, ESI, Gratuity for casual and contract workers, Bonus, regularisation etc. The demand of implementing the VII CPC pay scales for the casual labour is also pending with the BSNL Management.

We congratulate all the workers and leaders who organised and participated in the struggle. We demand the government to urgently settle these fully justified demands.

Gratuity for casual / contract workers

24 Saturday Sep 2016

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BSNLCCWF has demanded that the casual and contract workers should be granted Gratuity as per the labour laws of the land. The Management Committee of BSNL has already approved the same, but it is pending with the BSNL Board, which sought further clarifications from the management on the financial implications. For the casual labour, all the information are available with the management since, the EPF with retrospective effect from 01-10-2000 was ordered for these workers.
We demand that the next meeting of the BSNL Board, which is expected to meet on 28th September 2016 take a definite decision in the matter so that the concerned workers are granted with gratuity. Delay in decision will deny the same to those who are already retiring after thirty-forty years of dedicated service.

The Brutal Exploitation of BSNL contract workers – How this black spot on the face of BSNL can be removed?

16 Friday Sep 2016

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From the CMD to the lowest employee in the BSNL, everybody fully knows that the contract workers engaged by BSNL through contractors are brutally exploited. The government has fixed the minimum wage and Gazette Notification issued by the Chief Labour Commissioner (Central) and orders on Variable DA are issued every six months to be effective from 1st April and 1st October. Wages vary according to unskilled, semi-skilled, skilled and highly skilled as also on the basis of the classification of the city like A,B,C class.  According to the notification based on 01-04-2016, an unskilled worker in C Class city should get Rs. 246 as daily wage, which will come to more than Rs. 7,000 for a month. But in many SSAs/Circles far less is paid in some places even low as rs. 2,000. The fact is that BSNL is paying the contractor as per the minimum wage rate, but the worker does not get the same. In A, B class cities and for highly skilled, skilled and unskilled the rates are higher, but they are also paid less than the minimum wage for the unskilled. How can a worker maintain his family with a meager Rs.2,000 a month?

This is a sorry state of affairs. BSNL has got good officers, employees and strong unions/associations of ITS, Executives and Non-Executives. But most are turning their heads from the injustice being done to the contract workers, who are working in the same institution. Do we also belong to the creed of people who silently turn away their heads and walk away  when girls are being molested and children are being kidnapped?

My humble request as the All India President of the BSNL Casual Contract Workers Federation to all the ITS, Executives and Non-Executives and their organisations is to kindly think it over and help the hard working contract workers by ensuring that the minimum wage is got paid to the workers. Let us take a decision that we will not be part of this exploitation in anyway  and also will make our best efforts to stop this corruption and exploitation of the poor workers.

I would also request our comrades and colleagues to express their suggestions how this corruption and brutal exploitation can be put an end to and clean the black spot existing on the face of BSNL and its employees.

Meeting with GM (Establishment) BSNL.

06 Tuesday Sep 2016

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Coms. V.A.N.Namboodiri, President and Animesh Mitra, Secretary General BSNLCCWF met Smt. Madhu Arora, GM(Estt.) and discussed about the details of a scheme for regularisation of the left-out casual labours. GM(Estt.) wanted our suggestions to be given in writing. With regard to the regularisation of Com. Sebastian, TSM, Kerala on the basis of the decision of the Supreme court, GM said that the same has been approved and will be sent to CGM Kerala for necessary action. The unhappiness of the Federation in the delay of finalising the gratuity for the workers was brought to the notice of the GM with the demand that immediate action be taken to pay gratuity in  the cases of all those casual/contract workers retired and died since 2000.

Meeting With Director (HR) BSNL on casual contract labour issues

06 Tuesday Sep 2016

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A detailed discussion took place on 06-09-2016 between the BSNL Casual and Contract Workers Federation represented by its President Com. V.A.N.Namboodiri and Secretary General Com. Animesh Mitra and Smt. Sujata Ray, Director (HR) on a scheme to be prepared for the regularisation of left-out casual labour numbering around 3,000. The Federation leaders explained the entire matters connected with the regularisation issue, including the action taken by Postal, other government departments as also  by LIC. Copies of the relevant orders were supplied to Director(HR). It was assured that the entire matters will be looked in to afresh.

The leaders requested that immediate funds may be made available to Kerala Circle for payment of the arrears of increased wages to the contract workers in Kerala.

Meeting with CMD BSNL on Casual- Contract issues

06 Tuesday Sep 2016

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Com. V.A.N.Namboodiri, President and Com. Animesh Mitra, Secretary General, BSNLCCWF met Shri Anupam Shrivastava, CMD BSNL on 06-09-2016 and discussed about the regularisation of  casual labour, implementation of minimum wage, EPF, ESI etc.as also implementation of gratuity. The union leaders also requested that necessary funds be allotted to Kerala Circle for making payment of arrears of the wages as per the recent agreement on the wages of contract labour. CMD agreed to look in to all the matters urgently.

Improvement of the services also was discussed. The necessity of immediate countering steps against the aggressive entry of Reliance Jio was also discussed. Better service and expansion is required.