CIRCULAR NO. 27/14/2013/20 25TH
May, 2013
TO ALL UNITS &
MEMBERS
Dear
Comrades,
We reproduce herein the text of UFBU
Circular No. 8 dt. 24-5-2013 on the UFBU meeting held on 23-5-2013.
With greetings,
Yours Comradely,
C.H. VENKATACHALAM
GENERAL SECRETARY
UFBU Meeting held on 23.05.2013
UFBU meeting was
held on 23.5.2013 at New Delhi in the AIBEA Office. Com. Ashwani Rana, (General Secretary of NOBW)
presided over the meeting. All the nine
constituent unions were present in the meeting.
A report on the
developments since the last meeting was placed by the Convener along with the
minutes of the previous meeting held on 31.1.2013, 22.2.2013 and 22.4.2013. He also outlined the issues to be taken up
with the Chairman of IBA in the afternoon.
The meeting
deliberated and took note of the attitude of IBA in dealing with the charter of
demands on wage revision submitted by the UFBU.
The meeting observed that even before any preliminary discussions could
take place on the demands raised by the unions, the IBA was keen to foist their
issues. The meeting pointed out that
while the UFBU would always willing to discuss any issue raised by the IBA with
an open mind, the same cannot take precedence over the demands for wage
revision.
The meeting also
observed that the Government continued to pursue their reforms agenda and have
recently announced their decision to issue banking license to business and corporate
houses. The pronouncements on merger and consolidation of nationalized banks as
well as merger of Associate Banks with SBI are again being repeated frequently
nowadays. The bill to allow 49% private
capital in RRBs has been introduced in the parliament recently. Banking laws are sought to be amended to
allow banks to indulge in speculative business.
Banking jobs and services are increasingly being outsourced. Hence the meeting decided to continue our
campaign on these challenges and resort to agitation when warranted.
name grid-based
clearing system. The meeting also
observed that the attacks in SBI by the management has not receded and the
issue needs to be taken up by UFBU.
The Convener summed
up the discussions as under :
1.
As per the discussions of the meeting, the UFBU would pursue the demands on wage
revision in the next round of talks with IBA scheduled on 07.06.2013.
2.
The issues like adequate
representation to unions while participating in the talks with IBA, change of
procedure in allowing new unions for negotiations, compassionate ground
appointment scheme, introduction of 5 Day banking, problems faced by employees
and officers under grid-based Cheque Truncation System for clearing of cheques,
proper guidelines to be issued on adhering to KYC norms to avoid harassments of
innocent officers, managers, etc. would
be taken up with the IBA Chairman during the meeting him in the afternoon.
It was decided
that the next meeting of UFBU will be held at Mumbai on 6.6.2013 on the eve of
the next round of Bipartite Talks with IBA to be held on 7th June.
Meeting with Chairman, IBA :-
In the afternoon,
the UFBU representatives met Mr. K.R. Kamath, Chairman, IBA in his office in
Punjab National Bank, Head Office, Delhi.
Mr. T.M. Bhasin, CMD, Indian Bank and Chairman of the negotiating
Committee, Mr. Rajiv Rishi, ED, Indian Bank and Mr. R.K. Sethi, ED, PNB were also present.
In this meeting,
we took up the following issues with him.
i.
Wage revision should be expedited in a time
bound manner.
ii. The number of representatives participating in
the Talks with IBA needs to be reviewed and revised.
iii. The procedure of discussions by IBA with UFBU
constituents should not undergo any change and the earlier pattern to continue.
iv. Based on UFBU’s letter to IBA, the
compassionate ground appointment scheme should be introduced at the earliest as
it has been already delayed inordinately.
v. The problems faced by employees and officers
of Banks covered by the Southern Grid based clearing system should be resolved
so that the staff do not face unwanted risks and also not forced to work on
holidays.
vi.
5 Day banking should be introduced at the
earliest.
vii. The IBA should intervene in the matter to
normalize the industrial relations in SBI.
viii. IBA should issue proper guidelines to Banks to
advise the staff to strictly adhere to KYC norms so that the Banks and the
staff do not become vulnerable at a later stage.
The Chairman gave
a patient hearing to the issues raised by us but we found that these issues
need to be further pursued. Further developments
will be informed in due course.
With greetings,
Yours
Comradely,
Sd. (P.K.SARKAR)
CONVENOR