AIBOA'S Circular
No.17/VI/2013
November
22, 2013
To:
ALL
UNITS / STATE COMMITTEES
Dear
comrades,
UNCONCERNED
ATTITUDE FORCE
THE
UNIONS TO GIVE THE STRIKE CALL
ON
19TH
DECEMBER 2013.
The
meeting originally fixed to be held on 21st
November 2013 at Mumbai was preponed to the Wednesday the 20th
November 2013 at 15.00 hrs at Chennai.
The representatives of
Unions had the benefit of the sharing of the information of the
meeting held with Government of India at Delhi on 14th
November 2013. Between the last meeting held on 11th
October 2013 and till this meeting, the development in the Banking
arena and also the oft repeated proposals of mergers and takeovers
echoed through the press by the Controller of the financial system,
forced the representatives to resist the proposed moves through
collective and decisive strength of Bankmen.
As
the issues affecting the Industry and also the workforce are equally
important, it was decided unanimously to call upon the entire
workforce to observe the Strike on 19.12.2013.
We
call upon the members and Units to make all out preparations to
execute the call of strike with seriousness.
Onward
to strike on 19th
December 2013.
Yours
comradely,
/S.NAGARAJAN/
GENERAL
SECRETARY
The
content of the communication released by the Convenor UFBU is
reproduced:
“A
meeting of the United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU) was held in Chennai
yesterday i.e., 20th
November 2013 under the chairmanship of Com. K K Nair, Chairman of
UFBU and the representatives of all constituent unions/associations
of UFBU were present.
The
developments in the areas of wage negotiations, reform policies of
the Government in the banking sector, the speed with which the
Government is proceeding in implementation of reforms were reviewed
and extensive deliberations were made on the issues confronting the
bank employees.
The
meeting noted with concern, the lackadaisical attitude of the
Government/IBA in the area of wage negotiations that resulted in
inordinate and undue delay in the process of negotiations.
Taking into consideration the insignificant progress in the process
of negotiations despite a lapse of more than a year since
commencement of the process and the financial pressure on employees
due to high inflation, the representatives of all constituent unions
of UFBU unanimously decided to press the demands through agitation
programmes including strike action as there is no positive response
from the Government/IBA to settle the 10th Bipartite Wage
Settlement at the earliest.
The
meeting also expressed its strong protest against the various
measures being taken by the Government and Reserve Bank of India
(RBI) in the name of financial reforms inasmuch as the proposals like
allowing foreign banks to enter India in a big way with near
‘national treatment’, which would enable them to take over our
banks, the discussion paper released by RBI recently on Banking
Structure in India and the thinking of RBI to consider granting of
licenses to open Private and Foreign Banks under New Bank Licensing
Policy, etc., are designed to eliminate the public sector character
in the Country which are not in the interests of general public, who
have faith and feel more secured with the Public Sector Banks.
Further,
the meeting condemned the recent decision of NABARD to convert the
Primary Agriculture Co-operatives (PACs) as Business Correspondent
(BC) of District Co-operative Credit Banks (DCCBs), thereby around
2.2 lac permanent employees working in PACs would be affected and
adopted a resolution extending solidarity support to the agitating
employees of PACs.
Considering
all the above aspects, the meeting decided to give a call for
All
India Bank Strike for one day on 19th
December 2013 demanding
·
IMMEDIATE
WAGE REVISION
·
TO STOP BANKING REFORMS
Details
of agitation programmes will be issued in due course.
The
representatives of all the constituent Unions of UFBU further decided
to meet on 23rd
December 2013 to review the position and chalk out further agitation
programmes, if need be.
Comrades,
there is no significant progress in the 10th
Bipartite Wage negotiations even though it was initially assured by
IBA to conclude the wage negotiation process at the earliest.
It is disappointing to note that even the rate of increase is not yet
offered by the negotiating authorities despite the lapse of more than
a year. We are left with no option except to resort to
agitation programmes including strike action.
Comrades,
let us march on with all the strength at our command and make
agitation programmes a grand success not only to achieve reasonable
wage increase at the earliest but also to thwart the anti-public and
anti-national moves of the policymakers in the name of financial
reforms.”
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