Dear
Comrades,
March on to further
struggle to achieve wage revision
After our successful strike actions on 12th
November, 2014 and our Zonal Relay Strikes from 2nd to 5th
December, 2014, a meeting of the UFBU was held in Mumbai on 17th
instant to discuss and chalk out further course of action against the adamant
attitude of the IBA in resolving our demands for wage revision settlement. From
AIBEA, our President Com. Rajen Nagar and the undersigned participated in the
meeting and conveyed our viewpoints that UFBU should intensify the agitation to
realise our demands and at the same time, we must also adopt an approach that
would enable an amicable and acceptable solution to our wage revision
demands. We also strongly pointed out that
the move of the IBA in asking the Banks to re-visit the mandate should be
viewed seriously and fought back. After threadbare discussions, UFBU took
decisions to continue the struggle with further programmes and we reproduce
herewith the UFBU circular No. 40/41 dated 18-12-2014.
We call upon all our units to prepare our
members for the successful implementation of the programme.
With greetings,
Yours comradely,
C.H.VENKATACHALAM
GENERAL SECRETARY
UFBU DECIDES PROTEST STRIKE
PROGRAMMES
·
ONE
DAY PROTEST STRIKE ON 7TH JANUARY 2015
·
FOUR
DAYS’ STRIKE FROM 21ST TO 24TH JANUARY 2015
·
INDEFINITE
STRIKE FROM 16TH MARCH 2015 ONWARDS
CONDEMNS
IBA’S DIRECTION TO BANKS TO RE-VISIT THE MANDATE
DEMANDS IMMEDIATE AND REASONABLE WAGE
SETTLEMENT
At the call of Dy. Chief
Labour Commissioner (Central), Mumbai, one more round of conciliation was held
at Mumbai on 17th December 2014, wherein the IBA expressed its
inability to move upwards in its offer of increase in wages.
Further, IBA informed that
it has asked all the Banks to revisit the mandate given to IBA earlier to
negotiate with unions on wage revision.
UFBU firmly protested the action of IBA in calling for re-visiting the
mandate and termed it as nothing but a deliberate / unwarranted instigation and
provocation, which would further complicate the process of wage
negotiations. The conciliation ended
inconclusive.
Subsequent to the
conciliation process, the representatives of constituent unions of UFBU met to
chalk out further course of action. The
meeting was presided over by Com. SU. Deshpande (NOBO) as Com. K K Nair could
not be present in the meeting.
The meeting observed a
minute’s silence to condole the deaths of Com. N Sampath, former
President of AIBEA, Justice V R Krishna Iyer and the innocent children brutally
killed in the inhuman terrorist attack in the Peshawar school in Pakistan.
The meeting placed on
record its heartiest congratulations to all the constituent unions and their
membership for the massive participation in all the agitation programmes held
on the day of one day strike on 12th November 2014 and also in the
Relay Zonal Strikes from 2nd December to 5th December,
2014 and for making these strike actions a stupendous success.
The meeting expressed its
dissatisfaction on the casual attitude of IBA even to the deep resentment of
the employees and officers over the undue delay in settling the demands for
wage revision and also expressed its displeasure over the Government’s lack of
response.
The meeting took serious
note of the action of IBA in asking all the Banks to re-visit the mandate given
earlier to IBA to negotiate and settle the wage demands of the unions and
unanimously decided to lodge its protest immediately by calling for a day’s
strike on 7th January 2015, as the action of IBA is nothing but a
ploy to delay the negotiation process of wage revision.
The meeting also deplored
the indifferent and recalcitrant attitude of the IBA in sticking to its offer
of 11% increase in pay slip components despite the flexibility shown by UFBU by
offering to reduce its demand and further negotiate on the same for the sake of
an amicable early settlement. The
meeting expressed its displeasure that the commendable contributions of bank
employees are being ignored and the legitimate wage revision is being denied
even though the workmen and officers work in branches under tremendous pressure
due to inadequate staff and also the added responsibility in implementation of
various Government sponsored schemes.
The meeting, after a lot of
deliberations, decided that agitational programmes have to be further
intensified in order to achieve our just demand for an early and reasonable
wage settlement and decided on the following programmes:
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ONE DAY ALL INDIA STRIKE
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7th January 2015
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4 DAYS’ CONTINUOUS STRIKE ALL OVER THE COUNTRY
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21st
January 2015 to
24th January 2015
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INDEFINITE STRIKE
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16th March 2015 onwards
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30-12-2014 – Tuesday
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Mass Demonstrations in all centres
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05-01-2015 – Monday
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Black Ribbon Badge Wearing
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06-01-2015 - Tuesday
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Mass demonstrations /processions/rallies in all
centres
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07-01-2015 - Wednesday
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ALL INDIA STRIKE
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Further preparatory programmes will be worked out
and informed to all unions and members.
All the unions are requested to plunge into action and make these
programmes a success.