Threatening to go on indefinite strike from June 13
onwards, members belonging to the BSNL Executives and Employees'
Federation staged a day-long dharna in front of the BSNL General
Manager's office here on Wednesday pressing various demands.
Led
by district president of National Federation of Telecom Employees, T.
Jayakumar, the protestors raised slogans to highlight their demands.
They
said the merger of 78.20 per cent dearness allowance should be
immediately implemented for the BSNL employees and the officers. The
suspended benefits such as leave travel assistance and medical
assistance should be reintroduced.
While the BSNL
administration was refusing to accept the “genuine demands” of its
employees citing the “uncertain finances” of the telecom major as a
reason, all these benefits were being given to the Indian Telecom
Service officers of BSNL, they said.
“If our demands are not met, we'll go on indefinite strike from June 13 onwards,” said Mr. Jayakumar.
Office-bearers of various BSNL trade unions including D. Gopalan, S. Saravanan, Richard Paul and others spoke.
Tuticorin
Employees
affiliated to various BSNL unions and associations staged a dharna
here. Besides other demands, they also sought payment of bonus, revision
of transport allowance and other perks. I. Linga Bhaskar, President of
the Joint Forum, said the BSNL employees would go on an indefinite
strike from June 13. As many as 650 employees went on casual leave.
Consumers suffered following closure of service centres.
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