People's Democracy
(Weekly
Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
No. 42
October 19, 2003
(Weekly
Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
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Vol.
XXVII
No. 42 October 19, 2003 |
BSNL: Hunger Strike Against Harassment
STATE
secretaries of the BSNL Employees Union staged a hunger strike on October 13 and
14, in front of the office of BSNL chief general manager in all the telecom
circles, protesting against the harassment and victimisation of union members
and office bearers.
Four
state secretaries, viz those in Delhi, Rajasthan, UP West and A&N Islands,
as also a large number of district and branch secretaries were recently
transferred from their places without any justification. Also, a spree of
harassment is on against union workers. The management is deducting subscription
for the ‘recognised’ union from the members of other registered unions,
without their consent. It is filing cases against office bearers even for
peaceful trade union activities.
The
hunger strike took place in Delhi, West Bengal, Kolkata, Assam, North East,
Kerala, Tamilnadu, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, MP, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat,
telecom factories and other circles. BSNL Employees Union general secretary V A
N Namboodiri inaugurated the hunger strike at Kidwai Bhawan in Delhi. In Kerala,
former Kerala assembly speaker B Vijaya Kumar inaugurated it. (INN)
