12- Feb 2019AUAB rejects the proposal of the
Management for deferring the salary for the month of February 2019. –
AUAB also rejects the appeal of the Management to withdraw the strike.
A meeting between the AUAB and the BSNL
Management was held today at 17.30 hrs. Shri Anupam Srivastava, CMD,
BSNL, Ms.Sujatha.T |Ray, Director (HR & Finance) and Shri A.M.Gupta
GM (SR) were present. From AUAB, Com.P.Abhimanyu, Convener,
Com.Chandeswar Singh, Chairman, Com.K.Sebastin, GS, SNEA., Com. Prahlad
Rai, GS, AIBSBNLEA, Com.Pathak, AGS, AIGETOA., Com.Suresh Kumar, GS,
BSNL MS, Com.H.P.Singh, Dy. GS,BSNLOA and Com.S. Sivakumar, President,
AIBSNLEA participated.. The CMD, BSNL explained the serious financial
crisis being faced by the BSNL and appealed for the cooperation of the
AUAB, for deferring payment of the salary for the month of February
2019. The AUAB representatives firmly rejected the request of the CMD,
BSNL. They told in one voice that payment that the payment of salary of
employees should not be deferred. Thereafter, the CMD, BSNL said that
the 3 days strike called on by the AUAB from 18-02-2019 will be
self-defeating and appealed to call off the strike.. The representatives
of the AUAB rejected the appeal of the CMD, BSNL and reaffirmed that
the strike will take place at any cost. They told the Management that
the repeated assurances given by the Hon’ble Minister of State for
Communications are not implemented by DoT and that the strike will now
take place successfully.. The AUAB told the HB Management in categorical
term that there is no question of going back from the decision to go on
strike.
