"The difference between
Possible & impossible lies
in determination."
THE Bank Unions are no
longer a force of change.
This is the great institutional
diminution. Bank Unions slip
into Textile Trade Unions
collapse era..
Textiles were once the
country's largest known
industry. The textile mills
in Mumbai had their time.
Lakhs of people got the
employment in these mills.
There were unions. They
were strong enough. By
uniting & fighting, somehow
they used to get their
demands fulfilled. Then
the unions were caught
in the hands of a
professional broker. His
name was Datta Samant.
Everyone knows what
happened as a result.
Cloth mills were closed.
Due to unemployment
and hunger, the workers
migrated or went to some
other work. The owners
sold the mill lands and
shifted their business to
other provinces. Nowadays
Gujarat and South are the
hub of textiles. Now there
are no unions and no quarrels.
The textile industries continue
to thrive, but unions have
ceased to be militant &
dominant, rather they are
constructive and cooperative..
It will will not be wrong,
if we say that the Banking
Unions are caught in the
clutches of professional
brokers, similar to one
textiles & Datta Samant.
The truth must be accepted
that when the unions of the
textile mills came under the
grip of Datta Samant, the
textile workers did not realize
it. Just like today when the bank
unions have become puppets
of some professional brokers,
the bank workers are not aware
of it. Look at some of the
consequences, enough to
dilute any illusion in this regard.
● By introducing the
Special Allowance in
the 10th agreement,
the pension was decreased
from 50% to 45%. The
pension on increased
Pay was neutralized.
How many people took
cognizance of it or retaliated?
● In the 11th COD, there was
a demand to merge the
Special Allowance with
the basic pay, which
overnight turned into a
demand for increasing
the Special Allowance.
Overnight the pension was
reduced from 45% to 41.80%
from 2017. The Pension on
increased Pay was further
neutralized. How many
opposed it?
●Pension is an integral part
of the service condition,
but it has never
happened and even if it
happened it happened for
the wrong reasons, i.e.
lowering of pension
entitlement. Who retaliated?
● On non-revision of pension,
who protested?
● Was there any outrage over
non- disbursement of pension
benefits from the date of
retirement even after
paying a huge price for the
Second Option of pension?
No! Who made noise?
● What is giving pension to
Dismissed, terminated, CRS
and not giving to the Resignees?
When pension is given to
the tainted categories, of
course that amounted to
double punishment,
former employees/officers,
then how is it appropriate to
deny pension to those who
were compelled by their
own difficulties to resign?
● 100% DA issue is not a puzzle.
It continues undermining the
principles decided by
Hon'ble Supreme Court
not to have discriminatory
compensation policy in
same industry.
● What is the meaning of
no change in Bank Pension
Regulations, 1995 and the
deep silence on the reforms in
consonance with reforms
in Central Govt Pension?
● Cutting the rights and
entitlement of Pensioners
continue for last 20 years
since started from 7th Bipartite Settlement.
● Banking industry went
through a phase of one
salary, one allowance, one
compensation or reward,
now the discriminatory
step put forward through
P.L.I., obviously, it will go
far in days to come!
● The matter of stagnation
increments of the 10th and
11th agreements has not
been implemented till date.
The agreement is reached,
whether it is implemented
or not, it does not matter to
the unions!
● Internal activities of banks,
harassment, exploitation,
mistreatment of women,
imposition of increasing
work load on the existing
employees, no matching
recruitment, outsourcing
of regular work, boom of
more than 2 lakh casual
peons, no compassionate
appointments etc. are few
pointers to decay in Union
Institutions.
● There are some more
obnoxious development.
Appointment of Worked/
Officers representative
Directors had come to
grinding halt. It was a
statutory right, but Unions
are maintaining stoic silence.
Unions have been caught in
the clutches of professional
brokers, due to which not
only bank employees and
officers, but entire banking
is suffering.
◆◆ For Unions aforesaid issues
have been impossible. It's not
a Question of possible or
impossible. It's a question of
determination, which has not
been found on Unions' part at
desired level. Leaders have
become corrupt and dishonest.
Corruption necessarily not mean
financial corruption or
embezzlement. Dishonest
decisions are great corruption
that touches large section of
society & people.
(J. N. Shukla)
11.7.2021
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