AIBEA CIRCULAR NO. 27/83/2014/39 5th November, 2014
Dear
Comrades,
CONCILIATION
MEETING ON OUR STRIKE NOTICE
NO
POSITIVE OUTCOME
GO AHEAD
WITH 12TH NOV. STRIKE WITHOUT ANY LET UP
We reproduce hereunder the text of the UFBU
Circular No. 33 of today on the details of the conciliation meeting held at New
Delhi by the Chief Labour Commissioner.
Since three was no positive outcome in the meeting, UFBU decide to go
ahead with our Strike on 12th November, 2014. All our units and members should concentrate
on the strike preparations. Make the
strike a total success in all the Banks and in all the centres and stations.
With greetings,
Yours Comradely,
C.H.
VENKATACHALAM
GENERAL
SECRETARY
UFBU CIRCULAR No. UFBU/2014/33 dt. 5-11-2014
·
Conciliation
meeting held by CLC today – No improvement in IBA’s offer – CLC calls for
further meeting on 10th instant – UFBU decides to go ahead with the
strike
Further
to the Strike notice served on the IBA by the UFBU, conciliation meeting was
held today in New Delhi by Mr. P.P. Mitra Chief Labour Commissioner, Ministry
of Labour, Government of India. IBA was
represented by Mr. M.V. Tanksale, Chief Executive, Mr. Unnikrishnan, Dy. Chief
Executive and other officials. UFBU was
represented by all the constituent unions.
During
the conciliation proceedings, the IBA contended that due to the reducing
profitability of the Banks, they are unable to accept the demands of the UFBU
and stated that for the sake of an amicable settlement, they would be willing
to consider improving their present offer provided UFBU agrees to substantially
reduce the demands. IBA also suggested
that UFBU should defer the strike so that the negotiations may be further continued.
On
behalf of the UFBU, we explained the reasonability and justification of our
demands and stated that the IBA’s offer falls too short of our expectations and
hence not at all acceptable. We further
stated that looking to the runaway inflation as well as the increasing stress
and workload under which bank employees and officers are working now-a-days, we
deserve adequate wage revision. We also
said that besides improvement in emoluments and service conditions, other
demands like 5 day banking, regulated working hours for officers, improvement
in pension scheme, extending the old pension scheme to the newly recruited
employees, etc. are also needed to be resolved but the IBA is not forthcoming
on these issues.
IBA
informed that they are willing to continue the negotiations further and appealed
to the UFBU to defer the strike to facilitate a better atmosphere. UFBU informed that the strike call has been
forced on the Unions due to the unhelpful approach and unacceptable offer of
the IBA and reiterated its preparedness for further negotiations provided IBA
would come forward with substantial improvement in their offer.
After
hearing both sides, the Chief Labour Commissioner suggested that both IBA and
the UFBU should take steps to reconcile the differences and reach an amicable
settlement. He further advised the IBA
to talk to the UFBU to find out how the strike could be averted. He also adjourned the conciliation
proceedings to 3-00 PM on 10th November, 2014 for further
discussions.
Thus,
our demands remained unresolved and UFBU decided to go ahead with the
strike. Hence, we call upon all our constituent unions and members to march on
to 12th November 2014 strike without any let up.
Sd/- M V Murali
Convener