Paris, May 18 : Strikes by French railway and port workers halved train services and prompted cancellation of ferry links to Britain on Wednesday as labor unions sought to force President Francois Hollande’s government into retreat on labor law reforms.
The strike is a full success crippling the entire train services. The labour law reforms which are anti-workers are strongly opposed by the unions. They have been protesting and demanding the withdrawal of the same.
The Bank workers of the Associated Banks of SBI ie. State Bank of Travancore, State Bank of Mysore, State Bank of Hyderabad, State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur, State Bank of Patiala and Bharatiya Mahila Bank have struck work on 20th May 2016, against the decision of the government to merge these banks with the SBI. The merger will reduce the number of branches of these banks, reduce the number of staff and will result in loss of business. The merger is being done for the benefit of the private banks as part of the neo-liberal policy.
Support the bankmen strike against unjustified merger of associated banks with SBI!
QA Branch , Kolkata successfully conducted Satyagrha as part of ” Call Attention Day” on 16-05-2016 against the apathetic attitude of QA authorities towards the legitimate claims of the pensioners. West Bengal Circle Branch had sent a detailed letter to the CGM, QA, Bangalore intimating the sufferings of the pensioners. CHQ also took up the issue and promptly wrote a letter to CMD, BSNL with copy of the letter of Circle Branch seeking intervention and settlement. As there was no improvement, the programme was conducted with good participation of pensioners.
After the Satyagraha a meeting also was held with Com.P.K.Nadi, Vice President in the chair. Coms. P.K.Ghosh, Branch Secretary, Uttam Gope, District Secretary, BSNLEU, Ajit Nandan, District Secretary, Kolkata and Pijush Chakraborty, Assistant Circle Secretary addressed the meeting.
Solidarity material for the Palestinian people loaded yesterday, on May 16th by WFTU, FISE and PAME, and is now travelling to reach our Palestinian brothers. This initiative is another step of the campaign “A notebook for the Children of Palestine”
Glad News! It is reported that Income Tax Department has decided to refund Rs. 4,900 crore to BSNL. Forum, BSNLEU and other unions have been long demanding for the same. This refund will benefit BSNL in reducing the loss in 2016-17 and also for procurement and up-gradation of BSNL
The balance amount also be refunded at the earliest.
The World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) condemns the acts of NATO for creating new anti missile systems in Deveselu-Romania and soon in Poland.
With these aggressive moves, American Imperialists and their allies put the workers and the peoples of the broader region in critical war danger.
The aggressiveness of the imperialists confirms the evaluation of the class oriented trade union movement that the deep capitalist crisis heightens the inter imperialist competitions for the control of the markets and the creation of new borders, new spheres of influence and new roads for the energy pipelines.
The World Working Class demands that the governments of Romania, Poland and all governments stop these dangerous plans. History has proven that the consequences of such actions are always affecting the workers and the peoples.
WFTU’s position for the immediate dissolution of the NATO, today is of immediate priority for the international trade union movement.
THE SECRETARIAT
BSNLEU, except in the first membership verification, has won in all the verifications since and got recognition. It has also got 50% or more of polled votes, except in Vth verification, as shown below:
II Membership Verification : 53.60%
III Membership Verification : 61.06%
IV Membership Verification : 52.97%
V Membership Verification : 49.62%
VI Membership verification : 51.45%
VII Membership Verification : 52.77%
This is an impressive record of BSNLEU! It is only because of the solid support of the workers! Heartfelt thanks for the workers and leaders who have made this possible!
BSNLEU leaders and comrades organized a befitting victory celebration at the Corporate Office, New Delhi on 13-05-2016. A large number of workers from the corporate office and NTR participated. Com. P.Abhimanyu, General Secretary, Com. Swapan Chakraborty, Deputy General Secretary and Com. R.S.Chauhan, Organising Secretary addressed. They distributed sweets to all in every section including officers. Shri. Anupam Shrivastava, CMD, BSNL congratulated BSNLEU for the thumping victory in the 7th referendum and garlanded Com. P.Abhimanyu, General Secretary. In the brief interaction during this time, CMD stated that his first priority is to settle the wage revision in BSNL due from 01-01-2017.
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Today, the 13th May, 2016, Com. K.G. Jayaraj, General Secretary has contacted Shri. Prachish Khanna, Director (Estt), DoT to ascertain the progress on the issue of 78.2% IDA merger to BSNL pensioners retired before 10-06-2013. The Director stated that they had sent the file to the PMO last week and waiting for the comments from the PMO. The cabinet note will be forwarded to the Cabinet Secretariat immediately after receipt of the file from the PMO.