UFBU Waiting For Call From IBA

AIBOA writes as follows,:

 January 19, 2019

The General Secretary,
All India Bank Officers’ Confederation
KOLKATA.-700 001

Comrade,

Reg: WAGE REVISION FOR OFFICERS.
Ref: Our letter No.FOR:134:2018 dated 03.12.2018

We draw your focussed attention to the contents of the letter referred herein above. Due to paucity of time, the undersigned could not interact with you subsequent to the meeting held at Mumbai. However, it was felt necessary that the stand points of our organisation should be made clear to you.

2. To enable the four officers’ organisations to clinch the Non Financial Demands first, joint submissions were made to the IBA on the following major and important issues:

[a.] Uniform holidays for officers working in Grid

 [b.] Regulated working hours

[c].5 days week

[d]. Accountability policy

[e].Discipline and Appeal Regulations

[f.] Release of Increments on January and July

[g]. Monetisation of LFC as in RBI

[h.] Introduction of Child Care leave

[i.] Rectification of the anomaly in Special area Allowance Payable at NER and Revision of Family Pension in line with RBI scheme.

3. Between the date of submission of COD and till last discussions held on 30th November 2018, the consolidated view points on discipline and appeal regulations were prepared and submitted to the then AIBOC central office/Chairman’s office at
Bengaluru was not forwarded at all to IBA, as per the version of IBA. This needs to
be attended to on priority basis.

4. On mandate issue, the following break up would reveal the factual position in the five
banks.

SNo Name of the Bank Scale IV Scale V Scale VI Scale VII TOTAL.
1. S.B.I 10446 3444 781 216 14887
2. P.N.B. 1794 393 132 40 2359
3. Union Bank 1208 277 89 30 1604
4. Indian Bank ------ 161 52 17 230
TOTAL 13448 4275 1054 303 19080
5. Bank of Baroda 1832 380 122 41 2375
GRAND TOTAL 15280 4655 1176 344 21455

5. Principal Office bearers of your organisation were / are working in the first three banks. The agitation launched in PNB with one of the focussed issue was on Mandate, the fate of which is still unknown. The nine unions delegation led to Dena Bank on 27/11/2018 and to OBC 10/01/2018 bore the desired result, the reversal had taken place.

While nine union’s representatives could meet in a delegation all other banks
except SBI, then why same such exercise could not be initiated in State Bank of
India up till now?

6. Out of the 21455 officers of Scale 4, 5, 6 and

7, nearly 69.38% officers are belonging
to SBI alone. We had suggested to you to have a protest Dharna in your Corporate office, but the problems were expressed. Alternatively, it was suggested to have it at UNION BANK BHAVAN at Mumbai, PNB at Delhi and Indian Bank at Chennai, there is no response so far. 10% of the workforce stonewalling the benefit of wage revision to the rest of 90% of officers is the harsh reality. It should not be construed that our
organisation is willing to accept the fractured mandate because of the above observation.

On the other hand, stepping up the pressures by officers Bank wise first and subsequently by four officer organisations together and finally the nine constituents to exert the pressure on IBA and Government combine.

7. The legal stand taken by the judiciary in the matter of joint note is not having legal
binding, a well known fact. Earlier during the one more option for Pension in 2009/2010, your organisation took a stand that they would not participate in the discussions if it is held before 31/12/2009. IBA did conduct the meeting and INBOC, NOBO and AIBOA did participate in the discussion and issued a joint circular without your organisation. Having a
respondent in the Madurai Court case filed by your members belonging to Canara
Bank, what type of legal problems would arise in the negotiation of officers is too
worrisome. As in the case of LIC, the present Government should not attempt to issue a notification for the wage revision for officers. It appears that present impasse obtaining in the negotiations should not be a cause for concern paving a way for bank wise settlement for officers, where Fixed Pay and Variable Pay components are introduced as a package
as a fact accompli.

8. In all, to state, that a satisfactory wage revision for Officers and workmen should be arrived at without compromising the basic values of a trade union in the Industry.


Past performance speaks for the collective will of the nine constituents. Your
proposal to go by COD item wise and not by the percentage system in unworkable in the given circumstances as we have progressed from 2% to 8% on pay payslip components.

In view of the foregoing candid expressions of our organisation we hope that
appropriate mid course correction will be undertaken by your organisation for the
collective good of the workforce in the Industry.

Yours comradely,
/S.NAGARAJAN/
GENERAL SECRETARY
C C to: ALL CONSTITUENTS - UFBU
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Retirees AsdociaAsso express their apprehension as below on Facebook

Reference is being made to the following lines of the letter of AIBOA to AIBOC vide no.FOR : 4:2019 dated 19-01-2019 :--
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" To enable the four officers’ organisations to clinch the Non Financial Demands first, joint submissions were made to the IBA on the following major and important issues: [a.] Uniform holidays for officers working in Grid [b.] Regulated working hours [c].5 days week [d]. Accountability policy [e].Discipline and Appeal Regulations [f.] Release of Increments on January and July [g]. Monetisation of LFC as in RBI [h.] Introduction of Child Care leave [i.] Rectification of the anomaly in Special area Allowance Payable at NER and Revision of Family Pension in line with RBI scheme." ( Follow the screen shot given hereunder, if necessary)
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It is found that while AIBOC , in different occasions , confirmed  the inclusion of the retirees two main issues viz. pension updation & improvement of family pension in their COD , the said letter purports to say that only " Improvement of Family Pension " was included in the joint submission made to the IBA.
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We are not only confused, but seriously worried too.

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Sri JN Shukla expressed his views as under


Be Clear: as to Who Should be held Responsible for Pensioners' Plights !
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Under grip of sheer anger, people become irrelevant. Bank Pensioners, aged, weak & frail added with financial distress led depression are prone to anger & anguish. They are right, as they have very genuine problem, never addressed any time in past.

Pertinent question is: " As to Who Can be held Responsible for Our Plights?" For all issues, a random  view is taken to hold govt responsible, whether really that matter or not is not perused. I come across pensioners/ working bank men in interactions or in communications/comments and find them holding Govt at first instance responsible for their problems. They totally ignore the fact that whatever wages, allowances, pension and other service conditions they have those are neither by govt notification nor unilaterally thrust upon them by Banks. They get it all as per agreement that no one else, but their beloved Unions bargained to their best advantages in the given situations. So, at all if there are short comings, I think, we must agree to this very fact that those short comings have come from our Unions agreements. If success we apploud, appreciate, praise our unions/leaders. But in case of failure, we hold Banks/IBA responsible. How could this be, particularly when we know that the Govt is a very distant factor, in this regard, where every thing is as per our choice & bargain.

Holding the govt as responsible for the wrongs of our Unions/leaders is neither justified nor correct. It's the problem caused and inflicted upon us by our own people & organizations collectively. It's the time of blame game, visibly at a glance.

One is out to blame all others. Some of us say, change govt. My humble submission in this regard is: " Whether earlier governments, had they taken our ( pensioners) care? Had they dealt  OROP over 4 decades, which was govt matter being of Defence Dept.? They were the people who looted country and used Banks for plunder by their henchmen. How our eyes can escape to see bleeding Banks? How can we overlook that today banks are in perpetual RED because of NPAs due to loots under then govt patronage ?

However,  issue is not of govt, but of industry & our Unions. It's bilateral in nature. So, our anger & anguish should be against our Unions & leaders, who dropped pension revision in dust bin, concluded settlement and came out with flying color and praise of Himalayan heights.