No improvement in IBAs offer – UFBU decides to go ahead with the strike on 12.11.2014
Conciliation meeting held by CLC
today(5.11.2014) – No improvement in IBAs offer – CLC calls for further
meeting on 10th instant – UFBU decides to go ahead with the strike
Further to the Strike notice served on
the IBA by the UFBU, conciliation meeting was held today in New Delhi by
Mr. P.P. Mitra Chief Labour Commissioner, Ministry of Labour,
Government of India. IBA was represented by Mr. M.V. Tanksale, Chief
Executive, Mr. Unnikrishnan, Dy. Chief Executive and other officials.
UFBU was represented by all the constituent unions.
During the conciliation proceedings, the
IBA contended that due to the reducing profitability of the Banks, they
are unable to accept the demands of the UFBU and stated that for the
sake of an amicable settlement, they would be willing to consider
improving their present offer provided UFBU agrees to substantially
reduce the demands. IBA also suggested that UFBU should defer the strike
so that the negotiations may be further continued.
On behalf of the UFBU, we explained the
reasonability and justification of our demands and stated that the IBAs
offer falls too short of our expectations and hence not at all
acceptable. We further stated that looking to the runaway inflation as
well as the increasing stress and workload under which bank employees
and officers are working now-a-days, we deserve adequate wage revision.
We also said that besides improvement in emoluments and service
conditions, other demands like 5 day banking, regulated working hours
for officers, improvement in pension scheme, extending the old pension
scheme to the newly recruited employees, etc. are also needed to be
resolved but the IBA is not forthcoming on these issues.
IBA informed that they are willing to
continue the negotiations further and appealed to the UFBU to defer the
strike to facilitate a better atmosphere. UFBU informed that the strike
call has been forced on the Unions due to the unhelpful approach and
unacceptable offer of the IBA and reiterated its preparedness for
further negotiations provided IBA would come forward with substantial
improvement in their offer.
After hearing both sides, the Chief
Labour Commissioner suggested that both IBA and the UFBU should take
steps to reconcile the differences and reach an amicable settlement. He
further advised the IBA to talk to the UFBU to find out how the strike
could be averted. He also adjourned the conciliation proceedings to 3-00
PM on 10th November, 2014 for further discussions.
Thus, our demands remained unresolved
and UFBU decided to go ahead with the strike. Hence, we call upon all
our constituent unions and members to march on to 12th November 2014
strike withouut any let up.
sd/-
M V Murali
Convener
M V Murali
Convener
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