CBOA-AP issued its circular No. 17 dated
29.04.2013 reproducing the circular issued by the Federation on 10th
Bipartite Wage Negotiations. We are placing the same here for our readers.
CIRCULAR NO.: GS: 2013: 017 Date: 29.04.2013
TO ALL OFFICERS PLEASE CIRCULATE
Dear Friends,
We reproduce hereunder the Circular No.
CIRCULAR/GS/2013/13 dated 27.04.2013 received from our Federation for your
information.
With best regards
Yours sincerely
Sd/-
(C.A. MALLIKARJUNA RAO)
GENERAL SECRETARY
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“10TH
BIPARTITE – ROAD BLOCKS IN THE NEGOTIATIONS - AIBOC IS FULLY PREPARED TO
OVERCOME
We quote below AIBOC circular on
the captioned subject for your information.
QUOTE
“Our members are aware that the 2nd
round of discussions on the Charter of Demands submitted by the Officers’
Organizations and the Workmen Union was scheduled on 22nd April
after a gap of one month since the preliminary discussions on the negotiations
during the last month by the Indian Banks’ Association. The members were
anxious to know the developments since our last round of discussions with IBA
and IBA informed us that they were yet to collect all the required data from
the Banks to enable them to present the views of the IBA on the forthcoming
salary revision talks. They also had expressed certain apprehensions about the
delay in the matter of obtaining mandate from all the member banks to commence
the negotiations.
When the IBA sent an invitation to resume
negotiations all round hopes have been raised for a fair and reasonable
settlement during the current negotiations on the charter of demands submitted
by us. When we met at Mumbai to resume
negotiations, the IBA team was headed by Shri. T.M. Bhasin, the head of the
negotiating team along with his other colleagues from the IBA to negotiate on
behalf of the Indian Banks’ Association.
The Chairman of the negotiating team spoke overall view about the
banking scenario and shared the data that have been collected by the IBA for
the purpose of negotiations on the salary revision.
The AIBOC team was represented by Shri P.K. Sarkar,
the President of the Confederation and also the Convener of the United Forum of
Bank Unions along with Shri D.S. Rishabadas, the General Secretary of the
Confederation accompanied by other senior office-bearers of the Confederation.
The representatives of the Confederation expressed their genuine concern about
the need for an early salary revision and also conveyed their unhappiness over
the manner in which the negotiations are
being carried forward while the other serious issues that were pending are
being completely ignored by IBA despite our repeated representations for an
exclusive meeting on all those issues. The IBA has also come out with a list of
Management Issues which is totally unacceptable to us since it challenges the
very root of bipartite relations as far as the salary revision for the
officers’ are concerned. The issues that have been given as Management Issues
are as follows:-
a) Introduction
of Cost to Company
b) Introduction
of Performance Linked Variable Pay
c) Restriction
on applicability of wage revision.
The collective bargaining which we could
establish after a long drawn struggle and sacrifices are now threatened by the
IBA with the proposal a restricted negotiations and also to change the concept
of salary revision approach by suggesting the introduction of the cost to the
company and also the introduction of variable pay in the guise of performance
linked incentives. We have expressed our strong reservations about these
initiative so that, the IBA should get clear message as to the hopes and
aspirations of our rank and file across the country is concerned. The IBA has
also given similar Management Issues in respect of the Workmen as well. We have
already communicated the details of the circular issued by the United Forum of
Bank Unions in this regard. The UFBU will also take a collective view with
regard to the issues given by the Management before we proceed for the next
round of discussions.
Thus, the attitude of IBA appears to be a
confronting one rather creating a favorable climate for a reasonable and fair
salary revision. We have showed restrain on our part but have at the same time
conveyed to the Negotiating Team that the Management Issues needs to be fine
tuned to see that the time tested bipartite negotiations are not jeopardized in
the process.
We have a long way to go. The roadblocks that
may be placed by IBA needs to be tackled in an effective manner without hurting
the interest of the Bank Officers’ fraternity in the country. We cannot allow
the division of our rank and file in the name of restrictions on applicability
of wage revision etc. Hence, there is a need to keep our organizational
activities in full swing so that we are in a position to strike back to make
the IBA to understand the sentiments of the rank and file across the country
and come out with a comprehensive and acceptable salary revision proposals.
Friends, it is therefore essential to keep
ourselves in readiness to tackle these situation through sustained struggles if
need be so that we would able to achieve yet another mile stone in the
bipartite settlements when we conclude our 10th bipartite
negotiations”
UNQUOTE
We will keep our
members advised of the developments from time to time in this regard.
Yours Sincerely,
Sd/-
(A.R. SAIFULLAH)
GENERAL SECRETARY
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