Press for 11-point charter of demands
Hundreds of members of the BSNl Casual Karmachari Sangh, affiliated to BSNl Casual and Contract Workers Federation of India, took out a rally from Saheed lakshman Nayak Community Hall to the BSNl office where they staged a dharana pressing for an eleven-point charter of demands.
The casual and contractual workers including outsourcing employees from Paralakhemundi, Digapahandi, Chatrapur, Aska, Bhanjanagar and Brahmapur divisions joined.
The demands include halt in posting of casual and contractual workers against substantive and regular vacancies, regularization of services of all the contractual, casual, and outsourcing employees of the BSNl, payment of minimum wages of Rs 10,000 per month, extension of social security measures such EPF, ESI, bonus, identity card, re-employment of all retrenched employees, payment of monthly salary through banks, and recognition to Casual and Contract Worker’s Federation by the BSNl for legitimate collective bargaining, said association general secretary Ashok Kumar Behera.
Among others, S Ramakrishna, Satyanarayan Sethi, Bhagaban Sethi, Santosh Behera, Srinibas Gaya, Pabitramohan Dora, Sanjay Kumar Giri, Bijuli Sramika Karmachari Sangh convener Rabinarayan Acharya, trade union leaders Yudhisthira Behera, Ashok Das, Kishore Mishra, Siba Prasad Mohapatra and Basant Nanda addressed.