AIBOC issued its circular No. 11 dated
22.02.2013 on UFBU meeting held at Mumbai on 22.02.2013. We are placing the same
here for our readers.
CIRCULAR NO.11 DATE: 22.02.2013
TO ALL AFFILIATES /MEMBERS:
We reproduce hereunder the text of
UFBU Circular No.5 dated 22nd February, 2013 contents of which are
self-explicit.
With greetings,
Sd/-
(D.S.RISHABADAS)
GENERAL SECRETARY
TEXT
UFBU
Meeting :
Meeting of UFBU was held in Mumbai
today. The Meeting conveyed its heartiest congratulations to all the units of
UFBU and entire rank and file employees and officers for their massive and
enthusiastic participation in the Nationwide General Strike on 20th and 21st
February, 2013 at the call of central trade unions and the UFBU. The strike has
manifested the oneness of the bank employees and officers with the total trade
union movement in our country.
Homage
to Com. Narender Singh:
The meeting observed 2 minutes silence
to pay homage to Com. Narender Singh, the leader of transport workers union in
Ambala who was killed by a bus running on him when he was mobilizing for the
success of the strike on 20.02.2013.
Get
Ready for Strike against attacks on Trade Union Rights:
The meeting took note of the
increasing attacks on trade union rights, particularly in SBI and RBI where the
managements took intimidating and pressurizing tactics to wean away the
officers and the employees from strike action. The meeting decided to take up
these issues with IBA and the government and also prepare for strike action by
end of March, 2013 if these vindictive attacks are not retraced.
Government
attempts to mislead:
Just on the eve of our strike, the
Finance Ministry issued a statement calling upon bank employees not to join the
strike on the following grounds.
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Government
View Point
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Factual
Position
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Section of the bank employees are joining
the strike
None
of the main points in the Charter of Demands of central trade union has any
connection with bank employees.
Banks
recruit staff every year.
Bank
Employees are already entitled to pension benefits.
Bank
employees have social security cover.
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100%
employees and officers under the banner of UFBU were on strike.
All
the 10 demands raised by Central Trade Unions are applicable to bank
employees. Price Rise, Recruitment of adequate staff, Out Sourcing, Attack on
Trade Union Rights, Equal Pay for Equal Work, Disinvestment, Improvement in
Bonus Act, PF, Gratuity and Pension benefits,
etc. are all our demands also.
Nearly
200,000 vacancies of work men and officers remain vacant in banks. Many
permanent jobs are out sourced.
True, but since 1993 no improvements have
been made in the pension benefits.
The
compassionate appointment scheme to provide some job to the families of
employees who die in harness has been discontinued in the banks for the past
10 years and still the scheme is not revised.
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Thus, the government statement was
only to unleash a misleading propaganda to defeat our strike instead of
resolving the demands of the unions. We are happy that all unions have
understood the game and made the strike a total success.
Discussions
with IBA:
Further to UFBU’s submission of
charter of demands on the IBA for our wage revision and the improvement in
service conditions, the IBA had invited UFBU and accordingly a preliminary
round of discussions took place today between IBA and UFBU.IBA team was
represented by Shri. K R Kamath, CMD-PNB
and Chairman of IBA, along with the members of their Negotiating Committee.
UFBU was represented by leaders of our 9 Constituent Unions. Both the sides
felt and agreed that the negotiations should be expedited and concluded in a
time bound manner.IBA informed that the Negotiating Committee will be headed by
Mr. T M Bhasin, CMD- Indian Bank and Vice Chairman of IBA. From UFBU, we
pointed out that simultaneous to the discussions on our charter of demands, the
IBA should also take efforts to resolve the pending issues like Compassionate
appointment scheme, coverage of remaining employees /officers under pension
option scheme, Improvement in Family Pension, Updation of Pension etc.
Next
Round of Talks:
It has been decided that the next
round of talks will be held on 4th March, 2013.
Comrades, the discussions on our charter of demands have begun. It shall
be the endeavor of UFBU to expedite the discussions and strike a fair deal. We
exhort all our units and members to remain united and be in readiness to all
the calls of UFBU to achieve our demands to our satisfaction.
With greetings,
Yours Comradely,
Sd/-
(P.K.SARKAR)
CONVENOR
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