At Ramanathapuram BSNL office and Bharathinagar RSU, the house keeping contract labourers did not turn up for duty for the past 10 days as the contractor failed to pay the wages in time. It was usual for the contractor to unduely delay payment every month to these poor paid workers eventhough the Karaikkudi administration pay the bills to the contractor in the first week of every month. Still worse, last month's payment was not made . Hence in protest, they did not attend office resulting in garbages piling up everywhere inside and outside the office premises, toilets stinching and no drinking water was provided. The administration remained as a silent spectator. Neither the local nor the Karaikkudi SSA administration made any alternate arrangements for cleaning etc., even after repeated requests from staff side.
In these circumstances, the staff at Ramanathapuram decided to agitate in a novel way. They all assembled and cleaned the premises neglecting the routine duties. On hearing the news, local press and TV reporters visited and made coverage of the agitation.
As usual the local officers did not care and not even came down to the spot.
Result: In the evening the contractor turned up, made payment and assured union representatives for prompt payment of wages from next month onwards
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The Jaya TV Plus channel telecasted a story on it and local dailies "Dinamalar" and "Dhina Thanthi" also published news with photos. Our sincere thanks to them.
In the era of competition, BSNL authorities are exposed and shown their fibre, whereas the Union Leaders have done their duty pioulsly and shown the way.
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Well done Ramanathapuram comrades. BSNL is ours and it is ourmost duty to keep BSNL offices clean for our subscribers. BSNL Karaikudi management must be ashamed of the entire thing.
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