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Telecom strike called off as govt accepts demands

More than 300,000 striking workers of the telecom unions called off their strike late Friday night as Communications Minister Ram Vilas Paswan agreed to their demands.

''There were some misunderstandings with the federations. Had these been sorted out the strike could have ended amicably much earlier,'' Paswan said in New Delhi.

"The employees' interest will remain secure,'' the minister assured the two striking federations after his airdash to Delhi from Bhopal, Friday night. He said an agreement was reached between the National Federation of Telecom Employees and Federation of National Telecom Organisations and Department of Telecom Services.

The agreement includes:

1. Financial viability: Adequate safeguards in respect of losses due to uneconomical services and liberalisation policy of the government will be ensured.
2. Pension: Pension as per government rules will be reimbursed from consolidated fund of India.
3. Job security: Protection available to public sector undertaking employees will continue even after disinvestment of the PSU beyond 51 per cent.
4. Government Provident Fund: GPF will be continued as of now, except that the account will be maintained by the PSU.
5. Reservation policy: The PSU will adopt the government policy.
6. Victimisation: Past cases will be reviewed with a liberal view. There will not be vindictive action with regard to indefinite strike.
7. Pending issues: An understanding will be reached which will form part of this agreement.

UNI

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