TRADE UNIONS ? OR TRADING UNIONS ?
MY DEAR FRIENDS,
THE CREDIBILITY OF BANK UNIONS IS APPARENTLY AT STAKE !
COLLECTIVE BARGAINING IS REPLACED BY COLLECTIVE BEGGINGWITH THE DOUBTFUL INTEGRITY OF THE LEADERSHIP.
IN THE PROCESS, QUITE OBVIOUSLY, THE MEMBERSHIP GOT VEXED WITH THE MAKE-BELIEVE ACTIONS OF THEIR LEADERSHIP
I TAKE PLEASURE TO ANNEX HERE THE COMMUNICATION OF FORUM OF BANK PENSIONER ACTIVISTS, PRAYAGRAJ DTD. 11 07 2021 . DEPICTING THE HARSH REALITIES ... WHICH QUITE OBVIOUSLY UNPALATABLE TO THE LEADERSHIP
I CONGRATULATE AND COMPLEMENT SRI SHUKLA GARU FOR HIS SINCERE EFFORTS IN THIS REGARD.
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फोरम आफ बैंक पेंशनर एक्टिविस्टस्
Forum of Bank Pensioner Activists
PRAYAGRAJ
न त्वहं कामये राज्यं न स्वर्गं नापुनर्भवम्।
कामये दुःखतप्तानां प्रणिनामार्तिनाशनम्॥
हिमालयं समारभ्य, यायव हिन्दुसरोवरं।
आतं देवनिर्मितं देशं, हिन्दुस्तानं प्रचक्षेत।।
"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 continu 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 puppetsof some professional brokers, the bank workers are not aware of it. Look at some of theconsequencesenough to dilute any illusion in this regard.
● By introducing the Special Allowance in the 10th BP 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 he 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)
National Convenor
11.7.2021
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FRIENDS,
I ONCE AGAIN INVITE YOUR ATTENTION TO THE CONTENTS IN MY FOLLOWING LINK WHEREIN I NARRATED THE CALENDER OF EVENTS CONCERNING PENSION REVISION (INCLUDING FP) & 100% DA NEUTRALIZATION ISSUES TILL DATE.
CONSIDERING THE ABOVE, I AM VERY HAPPY TO SHARE WITH YOU ALL THAT THE TURN OF EVENTS OF LATE , INDICATE THAT , THINGS ARE MOVING TOWARDS POSITIVE DIRECTION AT AN ACCELERATED VELOCITY & AT ANY TIME WE WILL SOON HEAR THE GOOD NEWS TO BRING SOLACE TO THE LAMENTING RETIREE FRATERNITY WITH THE DIVINE BLESSINGS OF MATHA KANAKA DURGA ... ABODE इन्द्रकीलाद्रि विजयवाद INDRAKEELADRI - VIJAYAWADA
Contents are self-explicit.
“|| यतो धर्मस्ततो जयः ||”
IS THE ULTIMATE......
I remain – Yours ',
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DEVULAPALLI SRINIVASA MURTI
devulapallimurti@gmail.com
12 07 2021
Ramavarappadu (PO) :: VIJAYAWADA 521108
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