CIRCULAR/GS/2013/13 27th April,2013
TO
ALL OFFICERS:
Dear
Friends,
10TH
BIPARTITE – ROAD BLOCKS IN THE NEGOTIATIONS
AIBOC IS FULLY
PREPARED TO OVERCOME
We quote below AIBOC circular on the
captioned subject for your information
QUOTE
“Our
members are aware that the 2nd round of discussions on the Charter
of Demands submitted by the Officers’ Organizations and the Workmen Union was
scheduled on 22nd April after a gap of one month since the
preliminary discussions on the negotiations during the last month by the Indian
Banks’ Association. The members were anxious to know the developments since our
last round of discussions with IBA and IBA informed us that they were yet to
collect all the required data from the Banks to enable them to present the
views of the IBA on the forthcoming salary revision talks. They also had
expressed certain apprehensions about the delay in the matter of obtaining
mandate from all the member banks to commence the negotiations.
When the IBA sent an
invitation to resume negotiations all round hopes have been raised for a fair
and reasonable settlement during the current negotiations on the charter of
demands submitted by us. When we met at
Mumbai to resume negotiations, the IBA team was headed by Shri.T.M.Bhasin, the
head of the negotiating team along with his other colleagues from the IBA to
negotiate on behalf of the Indian Banks’ Association. The Chairman of the negotiating team spoke
overall view about the banking scenario and shared the data that have been
collected by the IBA for the purpose of negotiations on the salary revision.
The AIBOC team was
represented by Com.P.K.Sarkar, the President of the Confederation and also the
Convener of the United Forum of Bank Unions along with Com.D.S.Rishabadas, the
General Secretary of the Confederation accompanied by other senior
office-bearers of the Confederation. The representatives of the Confederation
expressed their genuine concern about the need for an early salary revision and
also conveyed their unhappiness over the manner in which the negotiations are
being carried forward while the other serious issues that were pending are
being completely ignored by IBA despite our repeated representations for an
exclusive meeting on all those issues. The IBA has also come out with a list of
Management Issues which is totally unacceptable to us since it challenges the very
root of bipartite relations as far as the salary revision for the officers’ are
concerned. The issues that have been given as Management Issues are as
follows:-
a)
Introduction of Cost to Company
b)
Introduction of Performance Linked
Variable Pay
c)
Restriction on applicability of wage
revision.
The collective
bargaining which we could establish after a long drawn struggle and sacrifices
are now threatened by the IBA with the proposal a restricted negotiations and
also to change the concept of salary revision approach by suggesting the
introduction of the cost to the company and also the introduction of variable
pay in the guise of performance linked incentives. We have expressed our strong
reservations about these initiative so that, the IBA should get clear message
as to the hopes and aspirations of our rank and file across the country is
concerned.The IBA has also given similar Management Issues in respect of the
Workmen as well. We have already communicated the details of the circular
issued by the United Forum of Bank Unions in this regard. The UFBU will also
take a collective view with regard to the issues given by the Management before
we proceed for the next round of discussions.
Thus, the attitude of
IBA appears to be a confronting one rather creating a favorable climate for a
reasonable and fair salary revision. We have showed restrain on our part but
have at the same time conveyed to the Negotiating Team that the Management
Issues needs to be fine tuned to see that the time tested bipartite
negotiations are not jeopardized in the process.
We have a long way to
go. The roadblocks that may be placed by IBA needs to be tackled in an
effective manner without hurting the interest of the Bank Officers’ fraternity
in the country. We cannot allow the division of our rank and file in the name
of restrictions on applicability of wage revision etc. Hence, there is a need
to keep our organizational activities in full swing so that we are in a
position to strike back to make the IBA to understand the sentiments of the rank
and file across the country and come out with a comprehensive and acceptable
salary revision proposals.
Friends, it is
therefore essential to keep ourselves in readiness to tackle these situation
through sustained struggles if need be so that we would able to achieve yet
another mile stone in the bipartite settlements when we conclude our 10th
bipartite negotiations”
UNQUOTE
We
will keep our members advised of the developments from time to time in this regard.
Yours
Sincerely,
(
A.R.Saifullah )
General
Secretary
OFFICERS'
UNITY—ZINDABAD
A I B O C --ZINDABAD
A I C B O F --ZINDABAD
WALK BY FAITH AND
NOT BY SIGHT.....
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