The National Steering Committee of United Forum of BSNL Unions has called upon all its affiliates to organise jointly one day Dharna on 11th January 2011 at circle/SSA levels on the following demands:        

1. 78.2% IDA fixation 2. Bonus for 2009-2010  3. Modifications in NEPP demanded by Unions  4. Introduction of NE-12 and NE-13 pay scales and 5. Reduction in salary to those recruited on or after 01-01-2007 to be settled.   Make the programmes a complete success.

United Forum of BSNL Unions have released its Charter of Demands and Appeal to the Workers requesting for support to BSNL Employees Union in the Fifth Membership verification to be held on 1st February 2010.  This will be published in the BSNLEU website www.bsnleuchq.com. United Forum calls upon all workers to support BSNLEU in this verification.

The world over, people are celebrating xmas with joy and happiness. Let us join with them in the ” Merry Xmas “

A total of 18.98 million additional telephone lines have been provided by all the telcos incl uding BSNL& MTNL in October 2010.The details as per TRAI will be published later.

 BEST WISHES FOR HAPPY AND PLEASANT  XMAS TO ALL OUR VIEWERS!

15 unions are contesting in the verification. But the main contenders are the alliances led by BSNLEU, NFTE and NUBSNLW(FNTO).

The total number of voters are 2,29,906. The total voters in IV verification was 2,47,757.  There are 17,851 less voters this time. The maximum number of voters is in A.P.Circle – 25,488 followed by Maharashtra – 22,605. The lowest number of voters is in T&D Jabalpur – 59 followed by BRBRAITT Jabalpur – 110. There are 2270 polling booths now  compared to 2305 last time.

The passing of strict austerity measures by the Greek Parliament has been strongly protested by the 2 biggest unions in the country. In order to cut the fiscal deficit, the Parliament is continuing the austerity measures as also additional austerity measures reducing the government expenditure which adversely affect the workers. On 23rd December, the workers staged a 3 hour walk-out. The Transport workers organised the fourth 24 hours strike within this month. The protest is continuing.

The price of 1 kg onion has gone up to Rs.80!In many vegetable markets onion is not available. Onion is one of the main ingredients of the food of Indians and it had become scarce. The Government is simply sitting and doing nothing to ameliorate the misery of the people

A new union has been formed for BSNL Non-Executives under the leadership of Coms. R.K.Kohli and N.T.Sajwani ( Secretary General and Dy. Secretary General respectively )by name National Federation of Telecom-BSNL Employees (NFTBE). The two above, who were  top leaders of NFTE have left the same and formed the new union. It is expected that they may join the United Forum, which is the alliance with BSNL Employees Union. Since the union has been registered recently it is not eligible to apply for participation in the present membership verification.