As per the call of the BSNL Casual and Contract Workers Federation, casual contract workers in BSNL will organise Dharna at SSAs on the demands submitted to CMD.
All BSNLEU District Secretaries are requested to provide full support and solidarity to the fully justified struggle.

The people of Palestine are being massacred by Israeli brutal bomb attack. Hundreds of innocent children and women are killed. Despite the huge majority of Nations condemned the attacks Israel continues bombing with support of US. Thousands of homes are destroyed, thousands are in relief camps.
World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) has called for liberal donations to Palestine. Donate maximum fund to the Palestine people !

The NDA government is on the move to change labour laws to favour the corporates. United struggles become inevitable.

While posting of comments is done, I am unable to post my reply to the comments due to some technical snag. I am trying to rectify the same. My regrets for the inability to reply to the comments.

Dated 07.08.2014
Statement
AGAINST
LABOUR LAW AMENDMENTS AND FDIIN DEFENCE, INSURANCE, AILWAYS
CENTRAL TRADE UNIONS TO HOLD NATIONAL PROTEST CONVENTION
All the Central Trade Unions of the country express deep concern at the reported
unilateral move to amend the labour laws by a number of state governments and by the
Central Govt. Most of the amendments sought to be done will have serious negative impact
on the working conditions including trade union rights of the workers and the employees. It
is unfortunate that in spite of the assurance given by the Labour Minister that Central Trade
Unions will be consulted, these amendments in labour laws are being pushed through without
any consultations with them. The Rajasthan Assembly has passed three amendments which in
our view are more retrograde and detrimental to the rights and livelihood of the working people
at large. The whole process is aimed to weaken the tripartite consultation mechanism.

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Circular no 22/2014
8th August 2014

To
All Office Bearers of CITU
All State Committees of CITU
All Industrywise Federation

Dear Comrades,

A joint meeting of all Central Trade Unions (CTUs) was held on 07.08.2014 in New Delhi. The Statement issued on conclusion of the meeting is forwarded herewith which is self-explanatory.

It is important to note that the depth and sweep of the attack on Labour Laws is disastrous. The end result will be that the working class shall be robbed of major legal protection including fundamental trade union rights to fight the onslaught of capitalist class being promoted by the Narendra Modi Government.

The meeting denounced the retrograde move of the government to allow 49% FDI in Defence Sector, 49%in Insurance Sector and 100% FDI in Railways and also the Government move to go for huge divestment of profit making public sector enterprises.

CTUs also decided to build up united struggle against such anti-worker and anti-people move of the Modi Government and decided to organise a National Convention in New Delhi the first week of September 2014 in Delhi.

In the meantime, all of our affiliated and fraternal trade unions including the Industrial and Service Sector Federations must launch massive campaign on the matters with right earnest at all levels of our organization – national, state, district, local and unit to prepare ground for determined united struggles to defend the legal and conventional rights of the working class.

Once the date of the National Convention is decided we shall communicate you immediately.

With greetings,

Yours fraternally,
( TAPAN SEN )

The VII Central Pay Commission has, in its first phase of interaction, been seeking the views of various stakeholders on its terms of reference. To this end, meetings have been held in Delhi with various organisations and heads of various agencies.

In its second phase of interaction, the Commission plans to hold meetings in different parts of the country to facilitate stakeholders staying in various areas to present their views personally before the Commission and ensure larger representation. This exercise is being undertaken to enable the Commission to get a firsthand impression about the functioning and the condition of service prevailing in different parts of the country.
Accordingly, the Commission, headed by its Chairman, Justice Shri A. K. Mathur, proposes to visit Bengaluru between 25th August and 27th August 2014. The Commission would like to invite various entities/associations/federations representing any/all categories of employees covered by the terms of Reference of the Commission to present their views.
Your request for a meeting with the Commission may be sent through e-mail to the Secretary, 7th Central Pay Commission at secy-7cpc@nic.in . The memorandum already submitted by the requesting entity may also be sent as an attachment with this e-mail. An early response in this regard would facilitate proper scheduling of the meetings.

BSNL started with a staff strength of about 3.5 lakhs in 2000. There were about 3.10 non-executives and 40 thousand executives. During the last 14 years more than 1,40,000 have retired. About 30,000 new recruits, mainly in TTA and JTO cadre have been appointed by BSNL.

Now, what is the present strength of BSNL? As in July it is 2,34,216. The number of executives are 48,164 and the non-executives 1,86, 052. About 800 ITS officers are also working on Permanent Deputation. Thus the total can be increased to 2,35,000.

It is to be remembered that while P and T Department was bifurcated in 1985, DOT had about 6 lakhs staff. It got reduced to 3.5 lakh in 2000 due to retirement and no recruitment.

About 10,000 to 15,000 employees are retiring from BSNL every year, which results in drastic reduction of staff. By ab out 2015 almost all the staff recruited in DOT will retire, except a few appointed on compassionate grounds, regularised casual labour etc.

The average age of the present employees are around 50 years and is going high every year. There is an urgent need for recruitment since fresh blood is required for any organisation.

But the BSNL Management is least worried about it. Now some executives may be engaged. But again, it will not be regular appointment. Management is thinking of engaging  executives on contract.

This policy has got to be changed. BSNL being a public sector should give more employment, provide better service and should be financially viable. The actions being taken by the Govt. and the BSNL Management are not conducive to a healthy public sector. Struggle has become inevitable to maintain BSNL.