MY DEAR FRIENDS,
WHEN TRUE TRADE UNION LEADERS OF THE PAST REPLACED BY... SOME BROKERS OF TRADING UNIONS AS OF NOW??!!...
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Yours Comradely,
దేవులపల్లి శ్రీనివాస మూర్తి
D S Murti
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Forum of Bank Pensioner Activists
(AN ASSOCIATE OF AIBRWA)
PRAYAGRAJ
न त्वहं कामये राज्यं न स्वर्गं नापुनर्भवम्।
कामये दुःखतप्तानां प्रणिनामार्तिनाशनम्॥
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BAD LEADERS MAKE
UNIONS POINTLESS !
Our Activists suggest us to use moderate language in our messages. The suggestion is top notch. Moderate language is for civilized, polite, sensible, honest people, never for lustful, corrupt, defiant, sycophants. We would like to assure everyone that we will not be unparliamentary at the linguistic level.
This post is bit long, but issue involved is too long. Therefore, please read it fully.
Meetings, rhetoric, mockery of proceedings have become the working style of Bank Unions, which they are not at all ready to rectify. Instead of keeping their points straight in a simple way, they move the issues forward through the process of churning, rotating, confusing. Such is their concept that by doing so they are able to forcefully attract the attention of the authorities or management.
Instead settling the issues, they are interested in blowing them out of proportion. Instead of proving that their strike-like actions have been forced upon them, they show that they are capable of closing Banks. It has become a general attitude of the management and the government to ignore for such ostentatious actions. Net result: There is no difficulty at govt, management or Banks customers level regarding such strikes. It's taken as rituals.
However, no matter how much the bird flies in the sky, the fodder is on the earth. No matter how many maneuvers the Unions play, the problems will not be resolved until the way of presentation of the problems and it's handling changes. Today the race of Unions has been reduced to Unions. Meetings are getting reduced to meetings. These meetings have no bearing on the IBA.
Disagreement on one point and meeting after meeting to settle it has become the pastime of today. Mutual trust in Unions is over. Leaders do not trust each other. The formula of diplomacy has disappeared since long and today diplomacy is the most powerful means of solving the biggest and smallest problems of the world.
We have seen Indira Gandhi to Morarji Desai and beyond. Saw also the diplomatic efforts of the leaders of that time. Saw complex to complex problems being solved. Pension scheme is also the result of such diplomatic efforts.
Today's atmosphere of rapture has never been seen before. Not so many meetings, not so much correspondence and not so much helplessness. There was a multi-union system and there was also a period of separate negotiations.
AIBEA signed the first Bipartite Settlement in 291 days and the fourth BS in 78 days. And, the 11th agreement is done with a delay of 1106 days. This is when all the Unions are together. 7th to 11th BS is held under the flag of UFBU. It will be interesting to see how the 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th settlement is delayed by 877, 944, 908, 935 and 1106 days respectively, despite being all Unions together.
The reason is, there is mutual disagreement and mistrust among the leaders. Arrogance among leaders, lack of strategy preparation ability among leaders, lack of diplomatic ability among leaders, brokers of IBA among leaders and mutual tussle among leaders are the reasons, the consequences of which Bankmen are suffering.
Unions have been wiped out from Banks floor a long time ago. There is tremendous exploitation and harassment going on in the Banks. The movements have been scuttled in state organizations. The agitation at the Bank level has ended. The movement in the United Forum is battling mutual tussle. Last days the strike was called off because the Bank Employees had declared not to go on strike. Now history is being made to call-off the strike.
Now let us talk about the strike of 30/31 January, 2023. The budget session of the Parliament is going to start from 31 Jan 23, so there should be some political stir. No idiot is found for this work other than the Bank employees.
See the chronology of time. New COD was also given on 21.10.2022 instead of giving it in May, 2022. The Unions did not pay any attention to, despite the matter being fixed for talks and settlement on two issues before the Central Labor Commissioner on 23.6.2022.
Since the last three meetings, the Unions have been at loggerheads over what should happen of the 30-minute adjustment in the morning or evening. During this time the IBA was doing its work comfortably. Filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court that the demand for pension revision is not appropriate. It's impractical. On the one hand, there is a matter of first negotiation and settlement on pension revision, to which IBA has responded Unions by its affidavit in the Supreme Court.
The position is clear, IBA is not going to do anything and this is what the Employees Unions want. At the time of budget presentation in 2020, the Unions organized strike on 31.1.2020 and 1.2.2020, despite their own demand of 15% wage hike was agreed by IBA in the pre- strike meeting held on 30.1.2020.
This year also the Unions have decided to greet the Budget with strike. With this intention, this two-day strike is announced. Nothing is going to be achieved by this strike. This is just an exercise to get into limelight. Yes, if strike happens employees and officers will have to bear wage cut.
However, it would be timely to discuss the issues of the strike. In the last week of June, 2022, during the proceedings on the strike notice, it was agreed between the IBA and the striking unions before CLC that both the parties would negotiate and compromise on the remaining two major issues, 5-day banking and pension revision. On the basis of this understanding, the strike was postponed.
The Officers Associations gave their new COD on 21.10.22 with a pre-condition that first there should be talks and settlement on the two major residual issues, then only talks would start on the new COD. The Employees Unions did not put any such condition.
Knowledgeable people believe that in such a situation the Employee Unions themselves would not want this proposal of the Officers' Unions to be successful. The second hindrance was imposed by the Officers' Unions regarding the 5-day banking that the 30-minute extended time should be adjusted in the evening Bank hours. On the contrary, the Employees' Unions have suggested to make this 30-minute adjustment before the morning banking hours, which has been rejected by the Bank Employees terming it as impractical.
Officer Unions, on the other hand, want pension revision on RBI lines, but Employees Unions talk of a phased road map in another way. The Reserve Bank pension policy is closely related to the pension policy of other Banks. The pensioners have rejected the line of the Employees' Unions, justifying the Officers' Unions.
The leader of the largest union of Employees, who thinks of himself as a monarch, a dictator, a Tsar, call him by any name, he feels let down by the Officers' Unions with both these proposals, which he cannot tolerate.
When it has been decided that there will be talks and agreement first on the 5-day banking and pension revision, then whatever actions are taken should have been on these two issues only. But it is seen that more issues have been inserted in the Poster to dilute the main issues. In the released Poster, apart from the two issues, four other issues (1) resolution of other remaining issues, (2) adequate new recruitments in all cadres, (3) cancellation of the new pension scheme and restoration of the old one and (4) wage revision talks to start immediately on the COD are inserted to generalize strike, though the strike need was two issue specific. This is simply called throwing dust in the eye or just understand that the eyes somewhere than the target is !
Those who have a misconception that the Unions are serious about the remaining two issues and are making separate efforts, get over the misconception. With the help of these two issues, they want to go to the issue of wage revision, which has remained a distant dream till now.
The remaining issues are about a dozen. Recruitment is not going to happen because of their saying. NPS will continue as long as it is in Central Govt. It is not necessary that if the old pension is restored in the Central govt, it would also be restored in banking. Unions themselves believe that Bank Pension has nothing to do with Central or Reserve Bank's pension, that's why they are talking about a separate road map regarding Pension Revision. Bankmen should take a right call, whether to go on strike or not.
(J. N. Shukla)
National Convener
14.1.2023
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