அர்த்தமெல்லாம் வேறுதான்! அகராதியும் வேறுதான்!

What is JAC? If you answer it is Joint Action Committee, then you are wrong. The dictionary of Sri Namboodiri will define it as  Joint Approval Committee. How else one can describe his latest decision of staging a dharna demanding immediate merger of 78.2% IDA? It seems a JAC meeting was convened by Sri VAN . Neither FNTO nor NFTE was invited or even informed of this. It is also learnt many other unions in the JAC were also not invited. Later on, after taking a decision of agitating on 14/6, the decision was conveyed to GS/FNTO over phone and FNTO was requested to participate in the agitation. FNTO categorically refused to join the agitational program raising few queries.

    1. When a settlement was reached on New Pay on 20/4/2010, the unions represented to the Hon'ble Minister for Communications, Sri A.Raja, about merger of 78.2% IDA with pay. The Minister on the spot itself directed the DOT Secretary and Chairman BSNL to sort out the issue and find a solution within 15 days. He informed the union representatives also to approach him if it is not done within 15 days. Why the JAC did not meet him or bring it to his knowledge?

   2. Atleast the matter could have been discussed with either DOT or BSNL management. Why JAC did not pursue the case?

   3. Will it be fair to resort to agitations when no follow up action was not done by the JAC?

   4. Why all the members of JAC were not invited for the meeting to decide the course of action on merger of 78.2% IDA.

Further our GS has requested the convenor JAC, Sri VAN, to defer the program, reconvene JAC to discuss the matter afresh and decide.

FNTO is not averse to agitations for settlement of workers demands. But at the same time FNTO is also determined not to force agitations for the sake of agitations alone. We never believe in gimmicks.