BSNL employees threaten to go on indefinite strike

Graduate engineers and junior telcom officers of state-run BSNL have threatened to go on indefinite strike if their demands were not met, an employees' association of the PSU told PTI.

“All graduates that were recruited directly by BSNL after its formation in 2000 will stage protest and go for indefinite strike from Monday unless our demands are met. We have been facing discrimination and denial of basic rights,” AIGETOA general secretary RP Sahu said. Sahu claims that the association has around 12,000 members which include telecom engineers and account officers.

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