TO ALL BANKMEN/ACTIVISTS:
Banking in India is poised to change, obviously for good reasons. It will succeed or backfire is different issue, depends on how policies are crafted & carried out.
Bank men, whether working or retired, award staff or officers should note certain fundamentals about their working or retired life.
1. They can't depend on their Unions any more in their day to day affairs. Develop professional skills & understandings and mould yourselves accordingly. From top to bottom, Unions are reduced to tissue paper. It's tragedy, but true.
2. Exploitations and unfair labour practices shall continue unabated. Hours of work and recess shall go more meaningless. To be at beck & call, will be a part of your duty. Work pressure shall continue rising to backbone breaking level. This will make working life from bad to worst.
3. Employees have to cope & compete with technology speed. Higher technology means more speed, thus more stress/tension on body functions. Resultantly, more problems shall occur with heart, brain, eyes, neck, back bones, geberal health conditions etc. It's invisible, but it's on work.
4. Your wages & service conditions under present system/method will continue deterioratiing. Existing method is detrimental, outdated and irrelevant. It suits employers, but harms workforce.
5. Human Resources in PSBs shall continue to shrink and work expand. Naturally, it will shift the increased work load on remaining workforces. It is in use in last 2 decades. Increase in manpower has not been in consonance with increased workload.
6. Employees, hitherto enjoying stay within cities, shall now be rotated among cluster of branches. Even subordinates shall be rotated. It's obvious, people have to spend hours in travel equal to working hours.
7. Regular subordinate staff shall come to end. In 1990s management held this cadre as nonproductive. Private Banks proved that even without helper, working can be handled. Instead regular substaff, PSBs are engaging temporary hands. Their may be supply chain for helpers like in case of security. According to RBI data on 31.3.2020 in 93811 PSB branches only 106605 permanent peons were working. Over 2,00,000 people are working as temporary peons.
8. The leaders of the unions will form Helpers Unions, take subscription, levy etc from them and run their own dookaans. Right now, the top leader of the biggest union is doing this in Kolkata. Future possibilities are quite bright, so it will expand very soon. It will be in Banking like Watergate.
9.The privacy of women bank workers will be insignificant and various tricks will be adopted to control them. Problems, such as vaginal harassments, will turn into sexual adjustments. Unions shall play important role in it.
10. In the eyes of employees and officers, the image of Unions will be of brothels & leaders as brokers. This will lead to collapse of an essential instrument of change like Trade Union in most important service industry like Banking
11. Late Com. Parwana had said himself, that the bank Union wouldn't be broken by outsider, but by Bank employees themselves. It's coming true. However, it was not told whether he would be a dhotiwala or a lungiwala. Circumstances suggest, now there is no dhotiwala left. In short list, obviously in bank men notice it's lungiwala.
(J. N. Shukla)
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Sri Narendra Modi,
Hon'ble Prime Minister,
GOI, New Delhi
Sister Nirmala Sitharaman,
Hon'ble Finance Minister,
GOI, New Delhi
All Hon'ble Cabinet Ministers,
GOI, New Delhi
Respected Sirs/ Sisters,
PRIVATIZATION OF BANKS,
it's against the conscience of nation!
Respectfully, we invite your kind attention to our mail dated 16th February, 2021 on subject cited above, followed with another mail dated 23rd February, 2021 in same context.
From the stand taken by government officials before the Chief Labour Commissioner (C) in conciliation proceedings on strike notice by Bank Unions, it has been abundantly clear that the govt is firm on privatizing Banks, as announced during Budget Session by Hon'ble Finance Minister.
We regret to say, the govt decision to privatize Banks will be a retrograde step, prove fatal to economic well being of people & nation and damage the credibility of banking in public eyes, who hold banks in great trust and park their life savings thereat.
Bank men toiled hard to take these institutions to incredible heights, turned it from class banking to mass banking by their out reach to every home of the land. These Banks stood with the nation and people in very trying situations and delivered the desired flawless results. PSBs have played incredible role in building strong national economy.
That's why, particularly in Banking matter, public psyche is against the hypothesis of privatization of PSBs.
This proposal is hunting every citizen having connect with PSBs. There is no reply as to why 2 PSBs are being privatized? Today two, then in days to come why not others, is the apprehension in public mind?
It's not only bank employees and officers are agitating against it, but the conscience of nation is against it. Every stakeholder, be it it's workforce, depositors, borrowers etc, is against this move of govt. If these banks have any problem, proper remedy lies else where not here in privatizing them. Privatization is not panacea at all.
We, therefore, request you to please give second thought to privatization of any PSBs. It's totally against the conscience of nation and people.
With Respectful Regards,
(J. N. Shukla)
National Convener
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