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DAY/ NIGHT DHARNA BY BSNLEU, KERALA IN SUPPORT OF BSNL CCLU STRUGGLE.

The casual contract workers in BSNL, Kerala Circle are on an agitation from 22nd June, 2015. Then they started an indefinite hunger fast before the CGMT office from 6th July,2015 as there has been no positive response from the Circle administration to settle the genuine demands. The leaders of the BSNL CCLU , Kerala Circle are participating in the fast. Though a conciliation meeting was held at the initiative of the Chief Labour Commissioner, Kerala, the talk failed as the Circle administration failed to send a responsible officer with proper authority to the said meeting. The CGMT is playing a hide and seek game in the agitation by his conspicuous absence in the office most of the period. At the same time he is making all sort of provocations by issuing memos virtually banning the agitation. He has also dared to victimize the BSNLEU leaders including the Circle Secretary alleging participation in the agitation.

It is in this background that BSNLEU Circle Union was compelled to call for a day/night dharna at all SSAs in Kerala on 22-23 July, 2015 demanding immediate intervention of the CGMT to settle CCLU agitation. The mass day/night Dharna before the CGMT office, Thiruvananthapuram was inaugurated by Com.Raju Abraham M L A on 22nd morning. Com.K.G.Jayaraj, General Secretary, AIBDPA, Com.P.V. Chandrasekharan, All India Patron, AIBDPA and a host of leaders addressed the dharna and offered support.

WFTU EXTENDS SOLIDARITY TO THE WORKERS OF SWAN GARMENT IN BANGLADESH.

Swan Garment factory is one of the factories which are situated in Dhaka city, capital of Bangladesh. This Factory is owned by a Chinese owner. Around 1300 workers worked in this factory, among them 80% are young women. On last 10 April the owner, all of a sudden, declared the closure of the factory, without giving the salaries and other benefits due to the workers.

The workers, with their struggle, forced the the owner to give them the salary of the month of March and he promised to give other financial benefits which are due to them, but until now he didn’t.

Now the Workers have been continuously sitting day and night, even amidst heavy rain, in front of the National Press Club by the side of one of the main roads, at the center of the city. The government is ignoring the protest and the stage of workers and does not take any step to meet the most genuine legal demand to pay the arrears.

The World Federation of Trade Unions representing 92 million workers in 126 countries fully supports the demands of Garment Workers’ Trade Union Centre:

Immediately arrears and bonus should be paid
The factory, which is illegally closed, should be reopened
The false charges and cases should be withdrawn.

TWO DAYS RELAY HUNGER FAST HELD SUCCESSFULLY IN MADHYA PRADESH.

The two days Relay Hunge Fast has been successfully held before the CCA office, Bhopal very successfully. The fast started at 10AM on 21st July, 2015 was participated by members of Bhopal District Branch. Com. S.C. Shrivastav, CHQ Vice President inaugurated. Com.H.S.Thakur, Circle Secretary in his address explained the demands of 78.2% IDA merger and restoration of medical allowance in detail.

On the second day the fast was participated by pensioners from all the district branches and inaugurated by Com. Jagadish Singh, AGS, BSNLEU . Com. B.S.Raghuvamshi, Circle President, BSNLEU, H.S.N.Chauhan, District President ans Com. N.L.Patel,,Treasurer, Jabalpur, Sheel Chand Jain and Mallayya both from Sagar. T.S.Raghuvamshi & Atiram fro Gwalior, Malavya Mazumdar, Jabalpur Civil, Thothar,Bhopal, B.K.Parsai,ACS,BSNLEU and Salmath Ali, District Secretary etc addressed and concluded at 5PM.

KOLKATA CIRCLE RELAY HUNGER FAST BEING HELD ON 22-23, JULY, 2015.

The two days Relay Hunger Fast in Kolkata Circle was rescheduled to 22-23,July,2015 due to some local compulsions. It started at 10AM on 22nd July before the PCCA office, Kolkata Telephones with massive participation of pensioners with much enthusiasm. A large number of lady comrades also participated along with CORTO members. Com.Sanjib Banerjee, Circle Secretary conducted the proceedings. Com.Anata Kr Bhattacharjee, All India President inaugurated the fast with an elaborate and enthusiastic speech.

Com.D.Basu, CHQ AGS, Com.Supriya Mitra, CHQ Vice President, com. Prabhir Dutta, CHQ Vice President, Com.Swastika Dasgupta, CHQ Org Secretary, Com.Biplab Das, General Secretary, BSNL Co-ordination committee, Com. Subhasis Roy, Acting Circle Secretary, BSNLEU, Com.Mihir Dasgupta, Asst Circle Secretary, and the following comrades from district branches; Biplab Dutta Roy, Ashu Sen, Ajit De Sarkar and Dipak Dutta addressed.

SECOND DAYS HUNGER FAST BY TAMILNADU AND CHENNAI TELEPHONES CIRCLE.

On the second day also there was a huge participation of pensioners before the PCCA office Chennai and the fast was inaugurated by Com.K.Govindraj, Circle Secretary, BSNLEU, Chennai Telephones. Com.S.Mohandoss and Com.B.Subramoniam, Circle Presidents presided jointly. Com.C.K.Narasimhan, Com, G.S.Narasimhan, Circle Secretaries, Com.K.Kaliprasad, CHQ Org Secretary, Com.R.Murugaiah, Circle Asst.Secretary, BSNLEU,Tamilnadu and Circle President, TNCLU and Circle Office bearers addressed.

RELAY HUNGER FAST CONTINUED ON THE SECOND DAY.

The two days Relay Hunger Fast started yesterday before the CCA offices all over the country demanding immediate issuance of orders on 78.2% IDA merger and Restoration of Medical Allowance continued today also and concluded by 5PM. Thousands of BSNL DOT pensioners participated and showed their will power to fight against the injustice and discrimination by the authorities and the government.

KERALA CIRCLE

Second days fast was inaugurated before the CCA office, Thiruvananthapuram by Com.P.K.Muraleedharan, Circle Secretary,NFPE(P-3). Com.R.Aravindakshan Nair, Circle President presided. Com.P.V.Chandrasekharan, Patron, Com.K.G.Jayaraj, General Secretary, Com.K.Mohanan, Circle Secretary, BSNLEU, Com.M.P.Kunhanandan, CHQ Treasurer, Com. R.Muraleedharan Nair, Former AGS,BSNLEU, Com.Amaravila Ramakrishnan Nair, General Secretary, Senior Citizens welfare friends Organisation, Com.S.K.Gopalan, Circle Org Secretary, Com.C.Sadanandan, Circle Vice President, Com.K.Prabhakaran, Dist President, Kozhikode and Com.N.Sasidharan Nair, Dist.Secretary, Kollam addressed. Com.G.Raveendran Nair, Circle Vice President welcomed and Com.J.Padmanabha Pillai, Dist President, Trivandrum proposed vote of thanks.

CHHATTISGARH CIRCLE ORGANISED RELAY HUNGER FAST SUCCESSFULLY.

The two days Relay Hunger Fast started at 10 AM on 21-07-2015 before the CCA office, Raipur with good participation of pensioners. Com.R.P.Atmapoojya, Circle Secretary and Com.S.C.Bhattacharya, Former CHQ Treasurer and Circle Secretary ,BSNLEU addressed the fast and explained the demands in detail.

RELAY HUNGER DHARNA AT HYDERABAD, ANDHRA CIRCLE.

The two days relay hunger fast was started before the CCA office, Hyderabad at 10AM on 21-07-2015 in which a good number of pensioners participated enthusiastically.

Com.G.Mohan Reddy, Circle President ,BSNLEU inaugurated the fasting dharna. Com. Ramachanradu, Circle Secretary and Com.Satyanarayana, Circle President, BSNLEU addressed .

PENSIONERS PARTICIPATED ENTHUSIASTICALLY IN THE RELAY HUNGER FAST BEFORE THE CCA OFFICE,GUWAHATI,ASSAM CIRCLE.

The two days hunger fast started at 10AM on 21-07-2015 participated by a good number of pensioners with much enthusiasm.Com.K.C.Medhi presided Com.K.K.Das, General Secretary, Central Govt Pensioners Associations, Assam inaugurated the fast. Com.M.R.Das, Assistant General Secretary explained the main objective of the hunger fast and the twin demands. Com.S.N.Sarma, Circle Secretary, Com.S.Rahman,Com.B.Deka, Circle Secretary, BSNLEU, Com.S.Chakraborty, Com.P.Barua, Com.I.H.Mondal, Com.S.Nath etc addressed.

RELAY HUNGER FAST SUCCESSFULLY HELD AT CCA OFFICE, MEERUT, UP(W) CIRCLE.

The first day’s relay hunger fast was conducted before the CCA office ,Meerut in Uttar Pradesh(West) Circle. A good number of pensioners participated which started at 10AM on 21-07-2015. Com. Abdul Rasheed, Circle Secretary spoke elaborately on all the issues confronting the pensioners with particular reference to the two issues, 78.2% IDA merger and Restoration of medical allowance for which the agitation is launched.