18 Wednesday May 2016
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Glad News! It is reported that Income Tax Department has decided to refund Rs. 4,900 crore to BSNL. Forum, BSNLEU and other unions have been long demanding for the same. This refund will benefit BSNL in reducing the loss in 2016-17 and also for procurement and up-gradation of BSNL.
The balance amount also be refunded at the earliest.
18 Wednesday May 2016
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Com. V.A.N.Namboodiri, Patron BSNLEU along with Coms. R.S.Chauhan, Org. Secretary CHQ and R.S.Sagar, Circle Secretary, ALTTC, Ghaziabad, met CGM ALTTC Shri Sabesan on 3rd May 2016, when he went there for a campaign meeting. During the discussion Com. Namboodiri suggested that a Telecom Museum be started at ALTTC, displaying the various developments in telecom sector, old and new equipment and other connected matters. CGM ALTTC appreciated the suggestion and assured that he will look in to the matter.
Such museums are necessary for the future generations to know what happened earlier.
17 Tuesday May 2016
Both the Associations of the Executives and the Unions of the Non-Executives jointly have to take up the issue of Pay/Wage revision for the employees of BSNL from January 2017.The DPE has to issue orders for the Pay Revision Committee for the Executives in PSUs. It has also to give guidance for starting the wage revision through negotiation with the unions of non-executives.
Since the Forum of BSNL Unions/Associations represent the unions of Non-Executives and associations of executives, it has to take the initiative for getting the orders issued by the Department of Public Enterprises. The Pay Revision Committee as also wage negotiations will take much time and hence the urgency.
17 Tuesday May 2016
Posted in General
The staff unions in the Associated Banks of SBI has called upon its workers to go on strike on 20th May 2016 against the government proposals to merge these banks with SBI. The move of the government will destabilise these banks and also reduce the number of staff.
The Associated Banks which are proposed to be merged with SBI are: State Bank of Mysore, State bank of Travancore, State bank of Patiala, StateBbank of Bikaner and Jaipur State bank of Hyderabad and Bharatiya Mahila Bank.
The government should retract from this unnecessary move.
17 Tuesday May 2016
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The state assembly elections in Kerala was a real fight between the ruling UDF and the opposition LDF. The % of votes polled crossed 75%. BJP led NDA was also there trying to at least to open account, which they could not do so far.
As per the many exit polls, LDF will win with good majority. The Counting and declaration of results will be on 19th May.
The people are disgusted with the UDF government fully immersed in corruption and want a change for the better. LDF is the alternative.
16 Monday May 2016
Posted in BSNLEU, General, Membership Verification
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In the VII Membership Verification in BSNL, the following circles gave more than 50% of total votes to BSNLEU:
1.N.E.I (81.19%) 2. Inspection Circle (76.09%), 3. Assam (74.59%), 4. NE.II (72.00%) 5. BRBRAITT (70.00%), 6. W.Bengal (68.85%) 7. Telecom Stores Kolkata (67.81%) 8. Kerala (64.96%) 9. Kolkata Telephones (62.33%) 10. TF Kolkata (58.19%), 11. M.P.(55.65%) 12. Uttarakhand (55.64%) 13. H.P. (55.63%) 14. Rajasthan (54.68%) 15. Karnataka (51.76%) 16. Punjab (51.75%) 17. A.P. (50.76%) 18. Maharashtra (50.55%) 19. UP (West) (50.30%)
In addition to the above, Circles which have got number onTF Kolkata (70.16%),e position in the circle:
The Circles where we could not get the first position:
All over India BSNLEU and alliance Comrades worked very hard to get the magnificent victory. Thanks and Congratulations to all of them!
16 Monday May 2016
Posted in BSNL
Telex was the latest technology once, which was an upgradation of the telegraph services, thus sending messages speedier and with better results from the Morse telegrams. It was introduced in India also after the same was introduced in foreign countries. The International Telex Service was started in India on 16th May 1960 by sending the first message between India and Britain.
Within six decades, both the telegram and telex services have already made way for the next generation of data services. Not only messages, but photos, images and all kind of data are now being sent by the mobile phones using various technologies.
It will not be surprising, if the new generation may not understand what was’Telegram’, ‘Telex’ etc. However, the old generation have the nostalgic memories of receiving telex, telegram etc. conveying happy news or some times tragic news.
15 Sunday May 2016
Posted in BSNL, BSNLEU, Membership Verification
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BSNLEU, except in the first membership verification, has won in all the verifications since and got recognition. It has also got 50% or more of polled votes, except in Vth verification, as shown below:
II Membership Verification : 53.60% III Membership Verification : 61.06% IV Membership Verification : 52.97% V Membership Verification : 49.62% VI Membership verification : 51.45% VII Membership Verification : 52.77%
This is an impressive record of BSNLEU! It is only because of the solid support of the workers! Heartfelt thanks for the workers and leaders who have made this possible!
15 Sunday May 2016
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The membership verification is over and BSNLEU and NFTE have been declared as the Main and Second recognised union respectively. The most important task at present is wage revision. However, another issue also is to taken with immediately. That is about the dues the central government have to pay to BSNL.
Since the verification campaign and other processes were going on for the last two months, proper focus could not be paid to the above issue. BSNL is in difficulty to procure equipment for expansion of services, while the private companies have got much funds either through loans, FDI etc. If the dues to BSNL from government is paid it will solve the problem to a certain extend and the company will post profit also.
The following are dues to BSNL from the government:
Strong protest and agitation are required to get the dues of BSNL for its expansion and modification. The Forum of BSNL Unions/Associations of Non-Executives and Executives have to urgently focus on these.
15 Sunday May 2016
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.
