Circular No. GS: 2009: 006 Date: 18.05.2009
TO ALL OFFICERS          PLEASE CIRCULATE
Dear Friends,

We reproduce hereunder the Circular No. CIRCULAR/GS/2009/05 dated 16-05-2009 received from our Federation for your information.
With best regards

Yours sincerely
(C.A. MALLIKARJUNA RAO)
GENERAL SECRETARY
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We reproduce hereunder the Circular received from AIBOC/UFBU for your information:
SALARY REVISION TALKS WITH IBA ON 11.05.09 FAIL -

STRIKE ON 12.06.2009
“Units and members are aware that UFBU has been trying its best to expeditiously and amicably settle our long pending demands for Wage Revision, Pension Option and Compassionate Appointments/Ex-Gratia scheme. Quite a few rounds of talks have taken place with IBA, but things are not moving in the right direction. IBA and the Government appear to have taken our reasonable approach as our weakness.
On 11.05.09 there was another round of talks between IBA and UFBU. During the discussions, IBA improved their offer to Rs.4125 crores i.e. an increase of 15% over the wage bill as of 31.3.2007. From UFBU, it was made clear to IBA that taking into account all the factors and circumstances that warrant a substantial wage increase for the bank employees and officers, the offer of IBA was too inadequate and falls short of UFBU demands and expectations. Hence UFBU rejected the offer of IBA.
As regards Compassionate Appointments/Ex-Gratia payment scheme, units are aware that at the instance of the government, a mutually accepted scheme had been finalized by IBA and UFBU and sent to Government for formal clearance. It is now learnt that the Government is not agreeable to extend the revised scheme to past cases from July 2004, when the unilateral scheme was introduced in the banks even though IBA had agreed to the same. We informed IBA that it is unfortunate that a scheme finalized by collective bargaining is sought to be bureaucratically scuttled by the Government, and hence demanded that the scheme mutually finalized between IBA and UFBU should be implemented without any further delay.
As to our demand for extending another option to the PF optees to join the pension scheme, IBA rejected our proposals given during the last round of talks and insisted that the new pension scheme should be accepted by the UFBU for future employees as a pre-condition. UFBU refused to accept this unfair condition of IBA.
In the matter of outsourcing, IBA wants UFBU to give total freedom to management to outsource banking jobs and services and UFBU could not agree to the same.
Because of this approach and stand point of the IBA, our efforts to amicably settle our demands have been frustrating. UFBU met immediately thereafter and decided to launch agitational programmes to press our following demands.
i) Expedite Wage Settlement with adequate increase in wages of employees and officers.
ii) Extend another option for pension scheme without any pre-conditions.
iii) Do not impose anti-employee conditions in the negotiations.
iv) Implement Compassionate Appointment/Ex-Gratia Scheme as per agreed understandings.
After detailed deliberations, the meeting decided upon the following programmes:
i) Delegation and submission of memorandum to CMDs of all Banks by unions in respective banks on a date fixed by our units.
ii) Delegation to IBA Chairman by UFBU.
iii) Centralised Mass Rally/Demonstration at all state and districts headquarters on 20.5.2009.
iv) Badge wearing on 26.5.2009.
v) Branch level joint demonstrations on 26.5.2009.

vi) Dharna by UFBU units in all State Capitals and major towns on 04.6.2009.
vii) Centralised Mass Rally /demonstration in all centres on 11.6.2009.

viii) All India Strike on 12.6.2009.
ix) Two days strike by middle of July 2009.

x) Further intensification/ Strike Action thereafter.
Friends, we have negotiated with all our sincere efforts to expedite the settlement, but we regret that we are once again pushed to the path of agitation. We call upon all our units and members to implement all action programmes effectively.”
With Greetings,
Yours sincerely,
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(D.A. BHADAURIA)
GENERAL SECRETARY