The first meeting of the National Council, the negotiating machinery in BSNL, is scheduled to be held on 23rd December 2013. The Staff Side ha given 17 important items for discussion after consultation within the recognised unions.
Now, the Management has circulated the first ten items only as the items for discussion in the NC meeting, dropping the other 7 items.No discussion was held with the Staff Side, either Leader or Secretary. This arbitrary action of the management is unwarranted and is against the convention for the last 12 years since the NC has started.The management did not even discuss the issue with the staff side, which they could have done, if there was some difficulty for them.
The Secretary Staff Side, Com.P.Abhimanyu, has strongly protested against this arbitrary action.
The least the management can do is to immediately correct the indiscretion it has done, by including the dropped items in the agenda of the NC and intimate the same to the staff side members, which will avoid a confrontation, created by the management.