YET ANOTHER SCENARIO OF STRIKE DRAMA
MY DEAR FRIENDS,
WE HAVE WITNESSED THE RECENT " STRIKE DRAMA" ENACTED BY UFBU FOLLOWED BY THE RITUAL CLC PROCEEDINGS ON 01 07 2022 BETWEEN UFBU & IBA ON PENSION REVISION - A 3-DECADE OLD OVERDUE ISSUE.
THE SAID STRIKE WAS CALLED OFF BY THE SO CALLED MIGHTY UFBU UNILATERALLY EVEN WITHOUT GETTING ANY FIRM ASSURANCE FROM THE IBA... AND THAT TOO... JUST FOR A PALTRY LUNCH INVITATION BY THE IBA THROWN AT THE LEADERSHIP ... A MERE DRAMA BEFOOLING THE LAMENTING RETIREES... ONLY TO ADD SALT TO THE INJURY.
NOW YET ANOTHER DRAMA IS BEING ENACTED BY THE SO CALLED UN-UNITED FORUM OF BANK UNIONS - "UUFBU" AS ENNUNCIATED BELLOW :
CONTENTS ARE SELF-EXPLICIT.
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फोरम आफ बैंक पेंशनर एक्टिविस्टस्
Forum of Bank Pensioner Activists
(AN ASSOCIATE OF AIBRWA)
PRAYAGRAJ
न त्वहं कामये राज्यं न स्वर्गं नापुनर्भवम्।
कामये दुःखतप्तानां प्रणिनामार्तिनाशनम्॥
।। धन्य: अस्मि भारत्वेन ।।
22ND NOV STRIKE
IN CBI CALLED OFF
BUT
18TH ALL BANKS STRIKE STAYS !
On 15.11.2022, in a handwritten letter addressed to the General Manager, Central Bank of India, Mumbai, the General Secretary of the Union said to withdraw the strike of 22.11.2022. The level of pressure can be measured that the General Secretary of the striking union was not even given a chance to type a formal letter. Write it by hand and give it, so that it is a record.
19 Nov strike was in retaliation for the thrashes and insults meted to striking Union leaders by CBI management and now when everything is cool in the Central Bank of India, then for 19 Nov strike, there is no justification in all banks, but it seems that the bank management and IBA have made up their mind to make the strike of other banks unsuccessful and to show their status to the leaders of the striking unions. The meeting held on 16.11.2022 was attended by the leaders of the striking union and the executives of IBA besides top officials of all the banks, but no any concensus reached.
The reasons for the strike which were published in the poster by the striking Union, we have discussed in detail in our earlier messages and it would be a waste of time to repeat the same. The reasons are all baseless and imaginary. For example, Bipartite Settlements / I.D. Act is being flouted, trade union rights and employment are being attacked, victimization is happening etc. The allegations like these are baseless and having noted these very facts, 8 other unions of banks distanced from the strike. It is the ideological bankruptcy of the striking union to bent upon strike on imaginary and baseless issues. They do not have any specific example either at any bank level or at the industry level to prove any of it's allegations.
Their most ridiculous demand is the "sanctity of the Bipartite Settlement." Sanctity? Can anyone know who seduced the Bipartite Settlement? Despite the provision of Pension Updation in the Pension Agreement, 1993/Pension Regulations, 1995, it's striking Union which allowed defloration by IBA not to do Pension Updation. It just kept its eyes shut, silent like a wet cat and burying its head in the sand like an ostrich allowing IBA to continue seducing. IBA's saying, there is no fund for pension revision, who has been propagating this fake news? We all know, at the time of pension implementing, under the very updation clause 35/1 which exists in Agreement/ Pension Regulations, 1995 pension was updated for 22 months, from Jan.1986 to Oct.1987, due to fifth BSettlement, then why under same clause the pension updation of the Bank Pensioners has not been happening for last three decades?. Who destroyed the sanctity and seduced Bipartite Settlement? IBA says on affidavit in the Supreme Court that there is no updation clause in the Pension Regulations, 1995, but the striking union is totally silent & conspicuous. It is if not rhetoric to talk about the sanctity of BS, then what? First the leaders should prove their sanctity, then they can play blame game later.
Let STRIKE fail. Strike much more important to shown down these headless chickens.
(J. N. Shukla)
National Convener
17.11.2022
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