Thursday, June 7, 2012

Tiorunelveli and Tuticorin.06 06 12-The Hindu.

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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