AUAB 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 Shrivastava, CMD BSNL, Ms. Sujata T. Ray, Director (HR & Finance) and Shri A.M. Gupta, GM (SR), were present. From the AUAB, Com.P.Abhimanyu, Convenor, Com.Chandeshwar Singh, Chairman, Com.K. Sebastin, GS, SNEA, Com.Prahlad Rai, GS, AIBSNLEA, 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 of salary of the employees should not be deferred. Thereafter, the CMD BSNL said that the 3 day 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 the Hon’ble Minister of State for Communications are not implemented by the DoT. The AUAB also told the CMD BSNL that, plenty of time is already given to the DoT, and that the strike will now take place successfully. The AUAB told the Management in categorical term that, there is no question of going back from the decision to go on strike.