BSNLEU HAS ISSUED THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT ON WAGE REVISION.

All the false propaganda, that have been made regarding the wage revision to BSNL employees, are exposed now. The BSNL Management has been making a high voltage propaganda that the DoT and the Hon’ble Minister of State for Communications are positive and favourable towards the wage revision of BSNL employees, and that they would definitely get wage revision. The employees were also being told that some unions and associations were unnecessarily creating problems in the settlement of wage revision, by going on unwarranted agitations. Appeal after appeal of the top Management were uploaded on BSNL’s intranet, requesting the employees not to join the agitation. The SR Branch of the Corporate Office was also issuing weekly bulletins stating that everything is moving in the right direction and that BSNL employees will get wage revision. It is very very very very unfortunate that some of the unions and associations were also telling that the DoT and the Minister were positive and there was no necessity to go on strike at this juncture. However, the Union Cabinet meeting held on Wednesday, has exposed all the lies and rumours that were being spread in the matter of wage revision to BSNL employees. The Cabinet has approved the recommendations of the 3^rd PRC. Accordingly, the employees of loss making PSUs like BSNL are not eligible for wage revision. It is very important to mention here that the DoT, which is the Administrative Ministry of BSNL, did not make any attempt to tell the government that BSNL should be exempted from the Affordability Clause of the 3^rd PRC. We have been telling from the very beginning that wage revision could not be settled without serious and sustained struggles. We call upon the entire Non-Executives and Executives to join the one day strike to be held on 27.07.2017, and to make it a resounding success. Let us tell the government in one voice that we will fight till the last, to settle wage revision.