Summary:
BHOPAL: The BU Non-teaching Staff Association seems to be divided into factions after Barkatullah University (BU) recently issued a letter to treat their 28-day strike in March as ‘service break’. During the ‘service break’ , employees can’t claim of PF, promotion and seniority.After the strike in March, the union had promised to file EL so that the salary for the strike days could be claimed. Now, the union is saying that EL has to be filed for the days of strike. The letter was issued after taking consent from the higher education department. But several employees objected to the union’s decision.“During the strike, we were also forced to join..