ALL INDIA BANK OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION

Circular No.14/VI/2012

December 14, 2012

To:

ALL UNITS / STATE COMMITTEES

Dear comrades,

v RETROGRADE BANKING LAW AMENDMENT BILL IS ON THE ANVIL

v I INTRODUCTION OF NEW BILL TO ENCOURAGE DEFAULTERS

v WE HAVE TO PREPARE FOR STRIKE

The present set up of Government functionaries, were the ones who championed the cause of International Monetary Fund prescriptions in the year 1991-92 ie., first decade of Reform process. Due to stringent and continuous campaigns of twin banners during the past two decades, breakneck speed approach of the Government so far was halted. However, the Government who have slender margin in the both houses of Parliament scraped through the FDI in Multi Trade.

Parliament being supreme, enacted bill may become law affecting national economy and banks.

Emboldened by the fractured verdict on FDI, Govt buckling under the pressure of business houses, in the recent session, instead of enacting laws to recover the bad loans from the defaulters, prefer to convert the bad loan as the equity of the lender Bank of that company. Strange way of extending velvet hand approach to corporate defaulters.

Apart from the amendment that are devoid of changes required by public opinion and unions, Govt. of India, Department of Financial Services vide their communication dated 18.09.2012 already set the tone of merger of Banks. Initial exercise is already communicated by some Banks, as already positioned in the year 2005 by Corporation Bank, Indian Bank and OBC.

In a nutshell, Government is in a fast forward move demonstrating their unconcern for the common people and their sentiments. Since the opposition parties cutting party lines stood for the cause of Banking fraternity inside the Parliament and staged walked out, support from outside has to be mounted. Hence, It Is Time To Act. We can’t be silent spectator to the present onslaught on the Banking sector and also on pro-poor Banking policies.

The session will end on 20.12.2012. We are to plunge into action and there is no escape from the reality.

As said by Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore, “if no one comes, walk alone”, AIBOA has to defend the Public Sector Banking, even when other constituents are becoming mute spectators to these developments and UFBU has expressed that their constituents are not ready to respond.

Move on ! Strike Call Awaits you!!

Yours comradely,

/S.NAGARAJAN/

GENERAL SECRETARY

Circular No13:VI:2012

December 9, 2012

To:

ALL UNITS / STATE COMMITTEES

Dear comrades,

DECISIONS OF THE BENGALURU

CENTRAL COMMITTEE MEETING

The first Central Committee Meeting after our 6^th National conference, held at Bengaluru on 2^nd and 3^rd December, 2012 at Hotel Chetna International, Gandhinagar, Bengaluru under the Joint Presidium of Com.Dr.Arvind Kumar and Com.R.Venkatesh Babu, Vice Presidents of AIBOA along with our Chairman Com.R.J.Sridharan, as our President Com.S.S.Shisodia who had been to London to be with his wife for Deepavali holidays was diagnosed blocks in the artery, and had to undergo surgery and he is recovering in the Hospital at present at London.

2. Com.C.H.Venkatachalam, General Secretary, AIBEA, Com.P.R.Karanth, Joint Secretary, AIBEA and Com.H.V.Rai, General Secretary, KPBEF attended the Central Committee meeting.

3. After a formal welcome address by Com.Chandrasekara Shetty, General Secretary, AIBOA, Karnataka State Committee, all the participants were greeted with floral bouquets/and presentation of red rose.

4. The meeting paid Homage to the departed leaders, political personalities and social activists during the period under review.

5. This Central Committee had the benefit of the presence of representatives from 14 State Committees and 19 All India Bankwise Units from all over the country.

6. Upon a detailed presentation of the necessity to convert the decisions of the 6^th conference to action on the listed agenda No.1 and 2, members were called upon to present their view points.

7. Com.C.H.Venkatachalam, General Secretary, AIBEA in his elaborate address to the Central Committee covered the entire gamut of present trend in the general TU movement and more specifically the need to fall in line with requirement of time to identify with working class. He also informed the twin objectives of the ensuing conference of AIBEA at Kochi in February 2013 and informed the CC that all the Office bearers of AIBOA will be attending the Kochi conference as fraternal delegates.

8. Followed by him was Com.R.J.Sridharan, Chairman, AIBOA who in his sharp, focused and pointed presentation dealt the emphasis of the membership consolidation bank wise and specifically organization building in Punjab & Sind Bank, the parity in the matter of wages with SBI, regulated working hours as the follow up measure of 6^th National conference at Chennai. Further, his emphatic expression that AIBOA has no other alternative but to work with AIBEA as the birthmark can never be changed. AIBOA’s birth was on account of historical necessity in post emergency period.

The session got adjourned for lunch at 14.30 hrs.

9. In the post lunch session, after leading comrades from Tamilnadu, Maharashtra, Kerala and Haryana supporting the stand of the organization on the issues listed for debate the CC authorized the Central Office to draw the plan of programme of actions including direct actions to realize the demands. On presentation of the Action Taken Report on our Mamallapuram and Hyderabad Office bearers meeting, a brief report on the exercise carried out to draw the Charter of Demands amongst the four officer bearers organization on 27^th October 2012 at Kolkata followed by the submissions made by the Four Officer Organizations together with workmen unions at Mumbai on 30^th October, 2012 to IBA was presented to the CC. The CC was also informed about the INBOC reiteration to the earlier stand of achieving parity in the matter starting basic pay etc., to nationalized Bank officers with SBI and their submission of supplementary Charter of Demand to IBA on the same day to IBA. The first day session ended at 18.00 hrs.

10. The second day deliberations commenced at 10.00 am. The representatives from each affiliates presented their individual bank wise problems and also the need to take up the same with the appropriate authorities in the hierarchy.

11. The matter related to “Punjab and Sind Bank Officers’ Federation” came for a deliberation and the President and General Secretary of AIPSBOF have been given a fair opportunity to explain their position for the benefit of the CC, their efforts to convert the MOU dated 21.05.2012.

12. The following decisions on the deliberations have been unanimously arrived at

[a] While in all programmes of actions unleashed by CTUs, our affiliates are to participate wholeheartedly, except in the direct action. The same will be decided by the Office bearers collectively, as done in the last strike call observed on 28.02.2012.

[b] In the matter of qualifying marks of 75% in the performance appraisal system every year, the issue will be taken up with the Government of India to give appropriate and workable solutions to afford opportunity to all participants/officers who are all under zone of consideration without discrimination.

[c] Disciplinary Action procedure and a training course on Defence will be conducted at Tarak Institute of Banking Trade Union Research at Mamallapuram with the faculty support including Com.K.Viswanath Naik for the units of Bank of Maharashtra and OBC.

[d] The coordination Committee meeting with AIBEA to discuss the issues pertaining to the units specifically in Punjab National Bank, Dena Bank besides periodical and time bound exercise to translate the decisions into action taken at apex level to be carried out without any further delay.

[e] In the matter of IR practices, permitting the retired officers belonging majority union, in UCO Bank, should be taken up with Government of India and the discrimination practiced by them should be removed.

[f] The impact of punishment in Departmental action affecting the Pension permanently should be examined and appropriate course correction should be initiated.

[g] Appropriate organizational actions are to be planned to attract the newly recruited officers by properly projecting the issues concerning them and if need be uniformity in service conditions/perquisites should be highlighted and realize the same through action programmes.

[h] Introduction of cheque truncation system and establishing the southern grid encompassing 4 southern states at present and the proposed inclusion West Bengal and Chandigarh needs to be studied and on the uniform holidays in the newly created “CTS” should also be appropriately opposed in the background of CBS facility available at all places.

[i] Educational series in the form of small booklets on “DO’s and DON’Ts”, “duties and rights” and also on “organization” will be released for the benefits of the new recruitees in the organization.

[k] All affiliated Units and State Committees shall respond to the requirements of IDBI units at the State level as well as all India level, in building the organization and also to realize the pending demands of the IDBI officers.

[l] Representing the All India Grameena Bank officers Association, Com.Purushothaman, AGS urged that opposing the “cross merger of RRBS” CC should adopt the resolution and also other issue. viz., Pension option has to be also taken up with appropriate authorities to benefit the workforce in RRBs..

In the post lunch session, the Veteran leader Com.P.S.Sundaresan addressed the house the urgent need to enhance the membership of AIBOA and advised the CC to seriously ponder over the ways and means to achieve the membership addition as decided in the conference at Chennai.

13. Subscription/Levy –All affiliated Units are to clear the subscriptions up to 2012 @ Rs.60/- p.a. per member on or before 31.12.2012 to Central office of AIBOA and at the rate Rs.25/- p.a. per member [for earlier years] as finance is considered to be the life line of any organization. It should be also resolved that the dues are to be cleared to all State Committees by the affiliated units immediately.

On Levy, it has been already reminded to units to clear the same on priority basis.

14. Tarak Institute – In the background of achieving breakeven point to be achieved in running the Institute at least for 100 days in a year, affiliated units are to necessarily utilize the Institute once in 18 months without exception, for their Central Committee meet, Defence classes etc. The new initiatives taken by Com.S.Janakiraman, Secretary, Tarak Institute of Banking & Trade Union Research in the form of a report is enclosed in the information documents.

15. Two Roses and enrolment of subscription – Com.S.Lakshminarasimhan, Chairman, Tamilnadu State Committee-AIBOA has been entrusted with the work of re-launching of Two Roses and the efforts are underway to publish the house magazine in the month of February 2013 synchronizing with the foundation day of beloved organization.

For the present, annual subscription has been fixed as Rs.150/- and the monthly subscription of Rs.15/- per copy. Units are to enroll the membership on an ongoing basis. The other formalities are under progress.

16. Cooption – Com.S.K.S.Sengar, General Secretary, UP State Committee has been co-opted as one of the Joint Secretary of our organization.

The CC has unanimously decided to accord the special status to Com.D.N.Trivedi, General Secretary, AIGBOA as a special invitee to attend the office bearers meeting of AIBOA.

17. The audited account for the year ended 31.12.2011 and Receipts and Payments for the period 01.01.2012 to 30.09.2012 were placed and adopted unanimously.

The first CC after our 6^th National Conference was of good beginning and the deliberations, timings and also decisions are of importance and real reflections of the comrades concerned to develop AIBOA the real voice of the Bank officers in the Banking system.

18. Role of Host Unit – Our Karnataka Unit, the host has made meticulous arrangements and also fine ambience which facilitated the CC to complete the listed agenda in a time bound manner. Our thanks to the Karnataka Unit for their splendid execution of the task entrusted to them by central office.

Yours comradely,

/S.NAGARAJAN/

GENERAL SECRETARY

Circular No. 12/VI/2012

November 10, 2012

ALL UNITS / STATE COMMITTEES

Dear Comrades,

REG : OPTION TO VRS OPTEES UNDER OFFICERS’

SERVICE REGULATIONS 1979.

In terms of provisions of OSR, an officer who has put in 30 years of service or 55 years of age, is entitled to opt for voluntary retirement from banks service. The minimum years of service was differing from bank to bank.

It was decided in the matter of Ms.Indu Rajagopalan vs Bank of India, in 2001 that there is no difference in the matter of regular retirement vis-a-vis voluntary retirement. It was in this background, while finalizing the various details related to extension of one more option who were PF optees numbering 330000 and preferred to remain outside pension scheme right from 29.10.1993,the issue of extending the option to VRS optees under OSR was taken up on 13.04.2010. The discussion was held at 6th floor of IBA office at stadium house, in which IBA was represented by Mr.Unnikrishnan.K, Deputy Chief executive IBA and late Mr. M.Venugopal officer on special duty looking after IR matter.

In the meeting held, constituents of UFBU were present and AIBOA was represented by com. R.J.Sridharan, the then general secretary and the undersigned in his capacity as Dy.General Secretary. We were the organization to raise the issue of extension of VRS under OSR and except INBOC, no other organization supported our presentation backed up by the legal decision. AIBOC leadership was unaware of the demand raised by us in the discussion. An emphatic no was the answer from the bankers as the lone voice was not supported by anyone who was present there.

The tragedy of non-consideration of the VRS category for one more option by IBA if it was on the pretext of “some banks only” to ignore Supreme court Judgement, it was more appalling to find that UFBU largely went by surmising that it is officers issue instead of defending an existing right. It was left to AIBOA to stand alone to fight the issue inside and outside with IBA and Govt. That is how AIBOA supported the SVRS case and also opposed on the total exclusion of VRS for one more option on the table in 2010 discussions.

Unrelented by unscientific approach of IBA, AIBOA did record the strong resentment coupled with scientific reasoning sent by fax followed by confirmation. In spite of the government advising the IBA to correct their approach, as the sanction accorded by the government varied with the interpretation of IBA, through two communications, it was released only yesterday by IBA. They have issued a communication (enclosed herein) in this regard to extend the option to all VRS optees under OSR 1979.

Truth shall triumph and always AIBOA represents genuine aspirations of bank officers and also sincere in realizing the reasonable demands.

Please exercise the option immediately,

Yours comradely,

/S.NAGARAJAN./

GENERAL SECRETARY

Circular No.11/VI/2012

October 30, 2012

To:

ALL UNITS / STATE COMMITTEES

Comrades,

JOINT CHARTER OF DEMANDS SUBMITTED TODAY

You are all aware that the 6^th Joint Note for Officers wage revision expires on 31.10.2012 and UFBU in its meeting at Chennai on 27^th and 28^th September, 2012 has decided to submit a Joint Charter of Demands for the 7^th Joint Note exercise for Officers’ Wage revision. Preceding to the UFBU meet at Mumbai, four Officers Organisations met at Kolkata on 27.10.2012. UFBU met at Mumbai today at Indian Banks’ Association [IBA] office for the submission of the Joint Charter of Demands.

In the discussions preceding the finalisation by Four Officers’ Organisations, AIBOA has drawn the attention of AIBOC to their own demand of extending special compensatory allowance of SBI to other Banks right from 1995 as also the Memorandum submitted by Com.P.K.Sarkar himself as convenor of UFNBOA, demanding 6.4% of SBI Pension Fund to all Banks, only a few months back.

Upon UFBU convenor giving a letter for awaiting the outcome of the court case, AIBOA agreed to submit a Joint Charter.

UFBU delegation was led by the Convenor Com.P.K.Sarkar and the team of AIBOA was led by Com.S.S.Shisodia, President, Com.S.Nagarajan, General Secretary, Com.M.A.Srinivasan, DGS, Com.Narendra Kotiawala and Com.Rajiv Athlaye, Joint Secretaries.

IBA was represented by Sri K.R.Kamath, Chairman, IBA[CMD-PNB], Sri T.M.Bhasin, CMD, Indian Bank, Sri Balakrishna V.Chaubal, SBI, Sri S.L.Bansal, CMD, OBC, Sri Bhasker Sen, CMD, United Bank of India, Sri D.Sarkar, CMD, Union Bank of India, Sri Shyam Srinivasan, MD, Federal Bank Ltd., Sri K.Unnikrishnan, Dy.Chief Executive and Shri Prabir Moulik, Senior Advisor, HR & IR, IBA.

Com.P.K.Sarkar, Convenor, UFBU initiated the discussion on behalf of UFBU and urged the IBA to settle the demands within a time frame. Expressing the need for revision of salaries of the entire workforce in the prevailing spiralling price rise regime, Com.Sarkar, requested that IBA shall look into the genuine demands of UFBU.

Shri K.R.Kamath, Chairman of IBA drawing the attention to their so called pending demands assured UFBU to ensure settling of the demand within a time frame and requested UFBU to extend their cooperation in enhancing the profit and profitability of the member Banks. He also informed that for the wage revision exercise, IBA team will be led by Sri T.M.Bhasin, Dy.Chairman, IBA.

The Chairman also requested UFBU to include 2 waiting Unions viz., NUBE and Bank Karmashari Sena Maha Sangh in UFBU to facilitate smooth and easy discussions.

INBOC signed Joint Charter of Demands with other Three Officers’ Organisations and also submitted a supplementary chart of Demands claiming/demanding the parity for Nationalised Bank Officers in terms of starting Basic Pay, Pension and other Service conditions at par with SBI, in line with their earlier steadfast approach along with AIBOA in working for parity of salary and perquisites amongst all Banks.

Comrades, the first step towards the 7^th Joint Note exercise for Officers’ Wage revision has thus commenced and there are miles to go to achieve the wage revision. The role of AIBOA, from the framing of the Charter of Demands till its conclusion in the past wage revisions, is known to all of you and this time too, AIBOA will play a crucial role in achieving the fair and better wage revision for officer community. The Charter of Demands is uploaded in our web site www.aiboa.org and we shall be sending separately the booklet on the Charter of Demands, shortly..

With greetings,

Yours comradely,

/S.NAGARAJAN/

GENERAL SECRETARY

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE CHARTER OF DEMANDS

· Regulated Working Hours – 36.5 hours a week demanded

· Scale Merger - Scale 1 to 4 and Scale 5 to 7.

· Merger of DA - September 2012 -4876 points.

· Change in the Pattern of DA Compensation.

· Introduction of Grade pay.

· PQP & FPP – compensation redefined

· Hike in HRA as per 6^th Pay Commission and introduction of Self Lease.

· Introduction of Incentive for working in Rural Areas.

· Post Allowance, Risk Allowance are to be introduced.

· Improvement in Hospitalization Scheme

· Improvements in LFC – mode of travel etc.,

· Introduction of Ex-gratia.

· Introduction of new facilities For Lady Officers

· Appropriate up gradation of the Leave entitlements.

· Increase in the incidental expenses on transfer.

· Roll Back to old pension scheme for those who joined on or after 1.4. 2010 from new pension scheme.

· Gratuity at one month for every year of service without ceiling

· Terminal Benefits shall be outside the load factor.

· Introduction of Banking Administrative Tribunal.

· Up gradation of pension for pensioners.

· LFC and Hospitalization for Retired Employees

· Date of Effect 01.11.2012

Circular No.10/VI/2012

September 22, 2012

To:

ALL UNITS / STATE COMMITTEES

Dear comrades,

RELAUNCH OF PUBLICATION OF OUR

HOUSE MAGAZINE “ TWO ROSES”

“KNOWLEDGE IS POWER” the famous saying goes. AIBOA, in its sincere efforts, to share and spread the messages amongst its rank and file, through the house magazine TWO ROSES from 1991 upto the Silver Jubilee conference held at New Delhi in February 2006 considered essential to relaunch the House magazine.

2. In pursuance of the Office Bearers meeting decision, it has been decided to publish “TWO ROSES” regularly and the responsibility to carry out this task is being shared by the Tamilnadu State Committee along with the Central office of our organisation. Efforts are afoot to renew the approach for publication and other related matters.

3. To achieve the desired goal, on 19^th September 2012, an office space has been carved out from the Guest House of AIBOA at 109/10, Angappa Naicken Street, Chennai-600 001. To mark the commencement and establishment of the office of “TWO ROSES” a simple function was organised by AIBOA-Tamilnadu State Committee and attended by the leaders, Secretary and Faculty members of Tarak Institute of Banking and Trade Union Research besides Com.S.V.Srinivasan, Deputy Gen.Secretary of AIBRF. The office was inaugurated by the General Secretary, AIBOA.

4. While the other formalities are under way in a faster manner to bring out the relaunch publication of Two Roses, we request the Units/State Committees to forward us the information related to our movement, photographs etc., to our office immediately.

5. Onward march in our “knowledge up-gradation endeavours....”

Yours comradely,

/S.NAGARAJAN/

GENERAL SECRETARY

Circular No.9/VI/2012

September 21, 2012

To:

ALL UNITS / STATE COMMITTEES

Dear comrades,

Ø Workers Parliament at New Delhi on 4^th September 2012

28^th February 2012 was a red letter day in the annals of Trade Union history of the independent India. Eleven CTUs and almost all independent trade union organisations have participated in the first All India Strike 28.02.2012. AIBOA members did their duty by identifying themselves with others, by their participation.

2. All eleven CTUs, as a follow up exercise, convened the convention at New Delhi on 4^th September 2012 to finalise the future course of action. AIBOA was represented by Com.Alok Khare Vice Chairman, Com.S.S.Shisodia, President and Com.Arvind Porwal, CC Member in the convention.

3. A massive representation of workers representatives at Talkatora Stadium, New Delhi resolved to carry forward the struggle against the present Central Government’s anti-people policies. There are various programmes chalked out culminating in 2 days strike action in February 2013. A resolution was adopted by the workers parliament, which is sent herewith for information.

With greetings,

Yours comradely,

/S.NAGARAJAN/

GENERAL SECRETARY

Encl: as above

DECLARATION OF THE NATIONAL CONVENTION OF WORKERS,

HELD AT NEW DELHI, ON 04.09.2012

This National Convention of Workers held on 4th September, 2012 at Talkatora Stadium. New Delhi, participated by workers representatives from all over India from all sectors, expresses its deep concern and anguish at the total non-response of the Govt. to address the burning Issues of the working people viz containing price-rise, universalisation of social security rights for unorganized sector workers, ensuring proper minimum wages, mass scale contractorisation, rampant violation of labour laws and onslaught on trade union rights etc., despite consistent persuasion by all in united platform of the entire trade union movement in the country through various forms of countrywide programmes and agitations in a democratic manner since last three years. Such non-response of Govt. to the all-in-united activities and persuasion by trade unions is nothing but an affront on the democratic rights and aspirations of the working people of the country, which the trade union movement cannot accept lying down.

While condemning the government for Its inaction and total indifference towards the miserable plights of the working people who keep the wheel of the economy moving, this National Convention strongly opposes the move of the Govt. to curtail budgeted allocations for pro-people employment and welfare schemes like NREGA and ICDS meant for rural populace and women and child care respectively. The Govt. is hell bent upon carrying the financial reforms by amending the bank and insurance laws to allow entry of MNCs and Corporates in these vital sectors and also pushing through the privatization process in phases through disinvestment of shares in blue chip PSUs In the core and strategic sectors of the economy. The Govt. is gifting natural and mineral resources of the country to corporates and MNCs paving the way for their loot.

Labour law violations are on increase, corporates have been given tree hand to suppress democratic trade union rights including the basic right of forming a trade union and increase in deployment of contract labour on jobs of regular nature. Many millions of workers employed to run several central govt. schemes, like ICDS, ASHA, mid-day-meal, sarva-silksha etc are being denied even the statutory minimum wages and associated rights. The state administration has become subservient to MNCs, and Corporates. The recent unfortunate incident in Maruti Suzuki Plant in Manesar and its aftermath including arrest of 150 workers and dismissal of over 500 workers is a glaring instance of corporate govt. nexus.

It appears the govt. is bent upon continuing the same anti people economic policy even seeking to enact legislations that run contrary to the interest of working people and their social security rights besides generating a severe recessionary impact on the national economy. The growth of economy is as low as 5.2 and index of industrial production declining to less than 1 percent with unemployment situation aggravating severely.

The Convention expresses its deep concern at the refusal of the Central Govt. to respond to the just demands of the united platform of trade unions on which the country had witnessed, as never before, a massive general strike on 28th February 2012.

This Convention while taking note of the precarious economic situation of the country, steep rise in the price of essential goods and commodities and all out attack on trade union aid social security rights and rampant labour law violations decides to further intensify the joint struggles, that were being carried out lot last three years on the following demands.

While reiterating the live point demands formulated jointly by the Central Trade Unions and Federations for 1) concrete measures to contain price rise, 2) concrete measures for employment generation, 3) strict enforcement of labour laws, 4) universal social security cover for organized and unorganized workers and creation of National Social Security Fund and 5) stoppage of disinvestment in Central and State PSUs/ Undertakings, the National Convention demands immediate action by the Govt. of India to ensure :-

Ø * No Contractorisation of work of permanent/perennial nature and payment of wages and benefits to the contract workers at the same rate as available to the regular workers of the industry/establishment

Ø *Amendment of Minimum Wages Act to ensure universal coverage irrespective of the schedules and fixation of statutory minimum wage at not less than Rs.10,000/- linked with cost price Index.

Ø *Remove all ceilings on payment and eligibility of Bonus, Provident Fund; Increase the quantum of gratuity.

Ø *Assured Pension for all

Ø *Compulsory registration of trade unions within a period of 45 days and immediate ratification of the ILO Conventions Nos. 87 and 98.

The National Convention adopts the following action programme to press for once again the above burning issues facing the working people:

Programme:

Ø #Stated / district / sector level Joint Conventions during September, October and November 2012

Ø #Satyagraha /Jail Bharo / Court Arrest on 18th / I9th December2012 in all the states through out the country

Ø #March to Parliament on 20th December2012 (mobilization by the unions from the states adjoining Delhi)

Ø #Countrywide Two Days General Strike on 20th and 21st February 2013.

The National Convention appeals to the working people of the country and their unions/federations irrespective of affiliations to respond in a massive way the call for countrywide united struggle and participate enmasse in the action programmes formulated by this all-in united platform of workers and employees to press for these vital demands embracing all sections of the toiling class.

BMS INTUC AITUC HMS CITU

AIUTUC TUCC AICCTU UTUC LPF SEWA

And Independent Federations of Workers and Employees

Circular Letter No.16:VI:2012

August 26, 2012

To:

ALL UNITS / STATE COMMITTEES

Dear comrades,

Ø Workers’ Parliament on 4^th September 2012 at Delhi

Ø CTUs Resolution adopted on 11.07.2012

In the background of successful observance of the 28^th February 2012, All India Strike by eleven CTUs and also other independent Federations against the ill advised anti-people policy of the present Government the Central Trade Unions held a meeting at New Delhi and adopted a resolution. The copy of the said resolution is also sent herewith.

It has been decided to hold the National Convention on 4^th September 2012 at Talkatora Stadium, Delhi at 10 am wherein representatives drawn from all CTUs/Federations are to participate.

There is a growing need to enlarge the unity. Let us prepare ourselves to join the mainstream of the working class segments to combat the emerging grim situation.

With greetings,

Yours comradely,

/S.NAGARAJAN/

GENERAL SECRETARY

RESOLUTION OF THE CENTRAL TRADE UNIONS ON

11.7.2012 HELD AT BMS HEADQUARTERS IN NEW DELHI

This meeting at the headquarters of Bhartiya Mazdoor Sangh on 11^th July, 2012, of all the Central Trade Unions of the country expresses its deep concern at the failure of the government to contain inflation particularly that of food price and protect the economy from a serious peril of recession grossly affecting the working mass both in the rural and urban areas, also affecting the workers and employees of the organised sector.

While condemning the Government for its inaction, this meeting stubbornly opposes the move of the government to curtail budgeted allocations for various social security schemes including NREGA, Pradhan Mantri Sadak Yojana, even ICDS meant for child welfare and childbearing women. The amount government seeks to withdraw is nearly Rs.90,000 crores, even it seeks to reduce the market borrowing meant to meet the gap between expenditure and revenue. This step reflecting the World Bank prescription shall hit beyond doubt growth and development grossly affecting employment hurting all categories of working people.

While there is no talk of expanding subsidised public distribution system to curb human distress arising out of inflation the important government officials are suggesting withdrawal of all forms of subsidy, even pleading of increasing the price of diesel and cooking gas.

The growth of economy is dipping to as low as 5.2 percent, index of industrial production declining to less than 1 percent with unemployment situation aggravating severely, external value of rupee consistently depreciating, investment becoming low, export going down, all ominous consequences of neo liberalism had held the economy in hostage.

Inflation is high, retail inflation reaching double digit, working masses losing real wage, living in intolerable distress is the worst victim of the government policies.

While adhering to our firm commitment to the ten-point demands earlier raised by the Central Trade Unions, such as enforcing minimum wage for all categories of workers including honorarium workers at not less than Rs.10,000 per month, strict enforcement of labour laws, right of the workers to form unions and get registration within a stipulated period of time, mandatory recognition of trade unions in all establishments, 8 hours working period for all categories of workers, same wages for same work for contract workers, against disinvestment etc., the central trade unions call for effective steps to control inflation and curb recession.

Having organised a historic general strike on 28^th February, 2012 as never before, this meeting of the central trade unions calls upon the working masses to intensify the united battle, taking it to a higher form to force the Government to change its policies.

In order to pave the way for a massive programme of action at the national level, the trade unions at all levels must start with a renewed vigour without delay taking all forms of agitation, holding protest action, organise rallies, having conventions at the local and state level.

Simultaneously all the central trade unions seek to hold a national convention at Talkatora Stadium in Delhi on 4^th September 2012 to chart out the programme of National action reaching a new height taking the agitation to the grass root level.

The meeting invites the widest participation of all the trade union activists from across the country, including leaders and representatives of different unaffiliated independent unions and federations, turning the convention into the broadest form of national unity of the workers for unleashing resistance against neo liberalism and fight anti-people policies being relentlessly pursued by the government.

BMS-INTUC-AITUC-HMS-CITU-AIUTUC-TUCC-AICCTU-UTUC-LPF-SEWA

Circular Letter No. 15:VI:2012

August 23, 2012

ALL UNITS / STATE COMMITTEES

Dear Comrades

v YOU HAVE DONE IT !

v BANKING OPERATIONS BROUGHT TO GRINDING HALT !!

TREMENDOUS IMPACT DUE TO TWO DAYS BANK STRIKE !!!

Bankmen, with all conviction, observed the call for observance of two days strikes on 22^nd and 23^rd August 2012 throughout the length and breadth of the Country demonstrating their unflinching faith in practicing the “Banking Patriotism’.

2. The news that have poured in our Office from our State Units coupled with electronic media information dissemination confirmed that the bankmen/workforce are second to none in resisting the move of the Government of India in diluting the ownership in public sector banks, allowing to cartalise the private share holders to dominate the private sector banks policy making bodies through enhancement of voting right to 26% besides foreign investor participating in the financial sector in equity participation.

3. Though the banking operations worth about Rs.80,000 crores could not be transacted and non-clearing of cheques of Rs.30,000 crores in the Financial Capital of the country, it is an admitted fact that the strike had brought the banking operations to a grinding halt. The credit goes undoubtedly to the total work force. Keep it up. It is the need of the hour.

4. The owner and the facilitator ie IBA are certainly unconcerned about the issues listed in the Strike Notice dated 8^th July 2012 . Had they felt the urgency , they should have prevailed upon the Government machinery to find out amicable solution on outsourcing, disallowing backdoor entry exercise of tutored Khandelwal Committee recommendations besides on our pending issues right from January 2008 onwards.

5. The resistance move is an ongoing exercise. AIBOA men are engaged in the process for the past two decades. The “Structural Adjustment programme” (SAP) prescribed by the International Monetary Agencies were implemented in developing nations within 36 months there by destabilizing the respective national economies.

Hence bankmen have demonstrated their concern by yet again a periodical resistance exercise as this Strike is “ 41^st in series and will be unending till reversal takes place.

WELL DONE ! KEEP IT UP !!

YOU HAVE DONE YOUR NATIONAL DUTY THROUGH THIS RESISTANCE MOVE.

With revolutionary greetings

Yours Comradely

/S NAGARAJAN/

GENERAL SECRETARY

Circular Letter No.14:VI:2012

August 21, 2012

To:

ALL UNITS / STATE COMMITTEES

Comrades,

CONCILIATION FAILS

2 DAYS STRIKE ON

The expected has happened. The CLC meeting called at New Delhi on 21.08.2012 ended in a failure as IBA was negative on all aspects of the demands and issues.

Working class takes every forum seriously to in quest of a solution to their issues or demands. AIBOA was represented in the CLC meeting by its President Com.S.S.Shisodia though other unions and the present and past Convenors of UFBU were absent.

While the Banking bill is placed in Lok Sabha, it is inevitable that register our unmistakable protest through strike. However the Govt.’s rigidity and stubbornness to be anti-national through the bill shall be resisted and fought by all of us.

Make the strike a total success. All our members are to observe the action and guide every officer to join the strike without going on leave on strike days which has been a habit and pattern nowadays for many in Banks.

Lest us bring success to AIBOA and its efforts to improve the Industry and its products through the dignity of labour and its effectiveness.

With strike greetings

/R.J.SRIDHARAN/

CHAIRMAN

Circular Letter No.13:VI:2012

August 11, 2012

To:

ALL UNITS / STATE COMMITTEES

Dear comrades,

TWO DAYS STRIKE ON 22^ND AND 23^RD AUGUST, 2012

Vide our earlier circular dated 1^st August, 2012, we have kept the units informed about the non-seriousness of IBA in resolving our pending demands. Inspite of providing time to resolve the issues concerning larger base of bankmen, the desired result is not visible.

The list of bills pending for passage before the Parliament includes the Bills related “Banking Sector too”. Looking to the current political situation and also the time to transact the business of the Parliament is too squeezed, the situation is intriguing. Equally, we cannot also rule out the fastness with which they carryout the business on the floor, through bulldozing exercise, as there is a tacit support of the opposition too.

As per the requirement of law, Labour Ministry, through its extended arm CLC has convened the conciliation exercise on 21^st August, 2012 at Delhi at 11.00 am. We can draw our conclusion on the Govt.’s concern on us and on our proposed strike.

Keeping the all round developments and also to keep the Bankmen unity “as an apple of an eye”, AIBOA calls upon the Units and State Committees to observe the two days strike on 22^nd and 23^rd August 2012 and make it once again a resounding success as that of the 28^th February 2012 strike.

Onward March to 2 days ALL INDIA STRIKE

Yours faithfully,

/S.NAGARAJAN/

GENERAL SECRETARY

Circular Letter No.12:VI:2012

August 1, 2012

To:

ALL UNITS / STATE COMMITTEES

Dear comrades,

DEVELOPMENTS ON ISSUES

LISTED FOR ORGANISATIONL ACTIONS

In the background of the appeal made by the Deputy CLC [Central] on 18.07.2012 based on the assurance given by the IBA, the strike call of 25^th and 26^th July 2012 was deferred.

In terms of their assurance, IBA, had invited the constituent units of UFBU for a discussion In the afternoon of 24^th July 2012 at Mumbai. IBA team was led by its Chairman Shri Alok Mishra.

In a hour long submission of views on our issues by members of UFBU and responses from IBA, their responses boiled down to a position of expressing the concern of the IBA, on compassionate ground appointments and also on revised quantum of Housing Loan equally informing that the same are attracting the attention of the authorities at Govt. level An appeal was also made by Chairman, IBA, not to go ahead with the strike actions/plans.

On completion of the exercise, UFBU met in the IBA committee room to discuss and chalk out the future course of programmes as the bills related Banking Regulation Act and Banking companies [Acquisition and Transfer of undertakings] Act were to be taken up in the last session itself. Keeping in view of the timing and also the expected passage of the bills, it was decided to observe the following programmes:

[i] 08/08/2012 – Joint Demonstration by constituent Unions of UFBU at State Capitals.

[ii] READINESS INSTANT STRIKE in the event of the bills related Banking brought in the Parliament for passage

The authorities concerned to resolve our issues, if continue to remain complacent, agitations in higher forms are inevitable.

With greetings,

Yours comradely,

/S.NAGARAJAN/

GENERAL SECRETARY

Let every Bankmen practice

Banking Patriotism

as an agenda on the 43^rd Anniversary of

Bank Nationalization

On the occasion of the 43^rd Anniversary of Bank Nationalization, let us remember and recall the thought provoking expression coined, more than three and half decades ago by that great socialist and jurist, former judge of the Supreme Court of India, Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer.

“ Banking Patriotism ”

He explained that in the Indian context, the vast resources coming in as deposits from the public into our industry, should be broadly used for the welfare of the ordinary people in order to ensure a better living standard for them.

Indeed this was the concept and object behind the sustained powerful campaigns on the Health of the banking industry, being carried on for several years by both the AIBEA and AIBOA.

Today, bank deposits are around Rs.61 lakhs of crores and credit deployment around Rs.48 lakhs of crores. Many surveys have established that around 75% of these deposits come from the ordinary people of India. (Household Savings). Thus, this is peoples’ money.

In the business of banking, capital subscribed by the share holders including the government has no relevance. The deposits from the public is the oxygen of our industry. When that oxygen comes mainly from the ordinary people of the country, naturally it should be broadly used to ensure that crores of our people living even after 65 years of independence in utter poverty, without proper food, clothing, housing or water supply or even without basic education, are ensured a better standard of living. The savings of the people should not be allowed to be looted by the industrial tycoons on the one side and scam after scam by vested interests. The alarming rise in NPA, is a shame on the very integrity of our industry.

It is unfortunate that in our country, both the UPA and NDA do not believe in public sector concept of not only banking, but in other industries also. Step by step under the pretext of Reforms the government is diluting its hundred percent holding in our industry. The Reserve Bank is seriously considering giving licenses to Indian industrialists and foreign investor to start new banks. In the expansion of the industry, the bias appears to be more in metro and urban centres, avoiding rural areas. New concept of banking is emerging, like business process felicitators and massive outsourcing of permanent jobs. Branchless banking is also surfacing in many rural areas. Rural credit deployment, from the grip of private money lenders in the past, is now being handled by private individual firms like micro financing companies etc. While computerization and modern methods of banking are inevitable, many novel methods and devices are coming up mainly to eliminate the lower level manual work and eventually to ensure that banking business with peoples’ money as deposits will become a non-manual mechanized, remote controlled industry wherein by the press of some buttons and no customer encouraged to come to the branches, the industry will develop into a huge credit deployment machine, catering to the needs of the tycoons, and those who manipulate unhealthy credit deployment.

We, the members of AIBEA and AIBOA are committed to ensure that our industry does not function as mentioned above. In 1946 itself when the AIBEA was born, we demanded that banking industry should be nationalized. Both AIBEA and AIBOA had launched numerous struggles and strike actions in order to preserve the public sector character of our industry. It is our resistance and opposition that has pushed back all attempts of the authorities to privatize outright our industry. It is this resistance that has saved our industry from being swallowed up by the global upheavals that sucked out hundreds of banks in USA, Europe and other countries a few years ago.

Thus today when we observe the 43^rd Anniversary of Bank Nationalization, let us cultivate and inculcate, generate and germinate within us a vibrant sense of Banking Patriotism. Let us pledge ourselves for more intensive struggles in order to preserve the public sector character of our industry.

In fact, in the next few weeks the strike actions that bank officers and workmen will be launching mainly revolve around this patriotic approach on the part of the bank employees of our country.

Date: 19^th July, 2012

Words of Wisdom -Com.P.S.Sundaresan-

Circular Letter No.16:VI:2012

August 26, 2012

To:

ALL UNITS / STATE COMMITTEES

Dear comrades,

Ø Workers’ Parliament on 4^th September 2012 at Delhi

Ø CTUs Resolution adopted on 11.07.2012

It has been decided to hold the National Convention on 4^th September 2012 at Talkatora Stadium, Delhi at 10 am wherein representatives drawn from all CTUs/Federations are to participate.

There is a growing need to enlarge the unity. Let us prepare ourselves to join the mainstream of the working class segments to combat the emerging grim situation.

With greetings,

Yours comradely,

/S.NAGARAJAN/

GENERAL SECRETARY

RESOLUTION OF THE CENTRAL TRADE UNIONS ON

11.7.2012 HELD AT BMS HEADQUARTERS IN NEW DELHI

Inflation is high, retail inflation reaching double digit, working masses losing real wage, living in intolerable distress is the worst victim of the government policies.

BMS-INTUC-AITUC-HMS-CITU-AIUTUC-TUCC-AICCTU-UTUC-LPF-SEWA

Circular Letter No. 15:VI:2012

August 23, 2012

ALL UNITS / STATE COMMITTEES

Dear Comrades

v YOU HAVE DONE IT !

v BANKING OPERATIONS BROUGHT TO GRINDING HALT !!

TREMENDOUS IMPACT DUE TO TWO DAYS BANK STRIKE !!!

Hence bankmen have demonstrated their concern by yet again a periodical resistance exercise as this Strike is “ 41^st in series and will be unending till reversal takes place.

WELL DONE ! KEEP IT UP !!

YOU HAVE DONE YOUR NATIONAL DUTY THROUGH THIS RESISTANCE MOVE.

With revolutionary greetings

Yours Comradely

/S NAGARAJAN/

GENERAL SECRETARY

Circular Letter No.14:VI:2012

August 21, 2012

To:

ALL UNITS / STATE COMMITTEES

Comrades,

CONCILIATION FAILS

2 DAYS STRIKE ON

The expected has happened. The CLC meeting called at New Delhi on 21.08.2012 ended in a failure as IBA was negative on all aspects of the demands and issues.

Lest us bring success to AIBOA and its efforts to improve the Industry and its products through the dignity of labour and its effectiveness.

With strike greetings

/R.J.SRIDHARAN/

CHAIRMAN

Circular Letter No.13:VI:2012

August 11, 2012

To:

ALL UNITS / STATE COMMITTEES

Dear comrades,

TWO DAYS STRIKE ON 22^ND AND 23^RD AUGUST, 2012

Onward March to 2 days ALL INDIA STRIKE

Yours faithfully,

/S.NAGARAJAN/

GENERAL SECRETARY

Circular Letter No.12:VI:2012

August 1, 2012

To:

ALL UNITS / STATE COMMITTEES

Dear comrades,

DEVELOPMENTS ON ISSUES

LISTED FOR ORGANISATIONL ACTIONS

In the background of the appeal made by the Deputy CLC [Central] on 18.07.2012 based on the assurance given by the IBA, the strike call of 25^th and 26^th July 2012 was deferred.

In terms of their assurance, IBA, had invited the constituent units of UFBU for a discussion In the afternoon of 24^th July 2012 at Mumbai. IBA team was led by its Chairman Shri Alok Mishra.

[i] 08/08/2012 – Joint Demonstration by constituent Unions of UFBU at State Capitals.

[ii] READINESS INSTANT STRIKE in the event of the bills related Banking brought in the Parliament for passage

The authorities concerned to resolve our issues, if continue to remain complacent, agitations in higher forms are inevitable.

With greetings,

Yours comradely,

/S.NAGARAJAN/

GENERAL SECRETARY

Let every Bankmen practice

Banking Patriotism

as an agenda on the 43^rd Anniversary of

Bank Nationalization

“ Banking Patriotism ”

Indeed this was the concept and object behind the sustained powerful campaigns on the Health of the banking industry, being carried on for several years by both the AIBEA and AIBOA.

In fact, in the next few weeks the strike actions that bank officers and workmen will be launching mainly revolve around this patriotic approach on the part of the bank employees of our country.

Date: 19^th July, 2012

Words of Wisdom -Com.P.S.Sundaresan-

CIRCULAR :8 :VI: 2012

July 14, 2012

ALL UNITS /STATE COMMITTEES

Dear Comrade

DECISIONS OF OFFICE BEARERS MEET

HELD AT HYDERABAD ON 11 07 2012

The Office bearers meet was held at Hotel Central Point at Lakidiki phool Hyderabad on 11^th July 2012. The meeting was presided over by Com R J Sridharan Chairman of our organization, as our President Com.S.S.Shisodia, was away from the country to attend to his wife who was advised to undergo open heart surgery at London.

The report was placed by the General Secretary collectively so as to enable the Office bearers to give/present their response on the agenda in general and on UFBU and its approach on the issues listed out for the two days proposed strike by the bank men.

2. ON UFBU

Com R J Sridharan our Chairman elaborately reported the present situation expectation of the rank and file on the performance of UFBU for the past two years and the legitimate claim of our organization on convenorship of UFBU.

It was pointed out that while Tarak never wanted Convenorship for AIBEA and the convenor has given up the position, now the SBI unions AIBOC and NCBE have had more than 2 times the convernorship and hence it should be rotated. AIBOA expressed itself against the way the AIBOC was given convenorship by making Mr.G.D.Nadaf for 2-1/2 months as Convenor. Further even 6 Unions when preferred rotation basis UFBU was not allowed to follow this better standard. In the light of this development AIBOA Office bearers authorized steps to ensure democratic functioning of UFBU through required steps including staying away from meetings.

Com Alok Khare Vice Chairman supplemented the sterling role played in the matter of IT issue by AIBOA was not a mean of achievement where the majority union in SBI was least concerned with the situation.

CONFERENCE, MEETINGS & PROGRAMMES

3. Subsequent to the last Office bearers meet at Mamallapuram, two of the leading State Committees held their conference one held in April 2012 at Mumbai and the other in July 2012 at Kolkata. Com Narendra Kotiawala (Oriental Bank of Commerce) and Com Bikash Debray (Central Bank of India) have been elected as General Secretaries of the state committees respectively. The meeting congratulated both the State Committees for the sense of organizational discipline and large participation of delegates in the sessions.

Our affiliate unit in Andhra Bank held their conference at Hyderabad on 11.03.2012. Com.V.Anilkumar, Secretary, AIBOA has been elected as President and Com.I.Haranath as General Secretary.

ON PENDING ISSUES

4. The Office bearers had threadbare discussions on all the three issues listed and arrived at the following decisions unanimously.

i) The meeting unanimously endorsed the stand taken by AIBOA in the matter of UFBU and its approach on issues and also on the convenorship of UFBU. Further it has also directed to adhere to the stand taken at the time of the All India Strike on 28^th Feb 2012 projecting the specific issues concerning common men and Officers fraternity. A separate poster should be released highlighting the issues by AIBOA.

ON PROMOTION GUIDELINES

ii) The meeting noted with satisfaction the legal remedy sought in the matter of Promotion Policy guidelines issued by Government of India by our affiliate in Union Bank of India. It has been decided to examine the legal position and also the remedy in the matter of “APAR” system with 75% marks each year. The positive stand of the Union Bank might have enabled their officers to have better norms on scale promotions than the other Banks when the CMD and HR Departments took a ostrich like stand that king can do no wrong and Govt., guidelines are god sent. .

ON NEW WAGE SETTLEMENT

5. On Wage revision, the meeting felt that the officers are yet to get geared up for a wage rise, given the regular DA increase during the period, as a stake holder, Bank men deserve to move on in a better showing. We cautioned the UFBU to ask for more than 100% DA for future in lower pay levels to restore the principle of DA and for UFBU to lay down maximum and minimum benchmarks clearly to avoid bitter experience of the past.

To enable our organization to finalise our approach on WAGE REVISION for Officer a subcommittee has been formed with the following Office bearers.

1) Com M A Srinivasan - Tamil Nadu CONVENOR

2) Com VP Ponkshe - Maharashtra

3) Com T R Verma - Haryana

4) Com K Raghava - Karnataka

5) Com V.Anil Kumar - Andhra Pradesh

6) Com AN Suresh - Karnataka

7) Com Ashim Dutta – West Bengal

The Chairman, Vice Chairman, President and General Secretary are ex Officio members of the wage subcommittee.

HOUSE MAGAZINE OF AIBOA

6. The house magazine “ TWO ROSES” should be relaunched by AIBOA. With an assured and target of 4000 membership it has been decided to constitute committees - Editorial. Implementation and Planning. Budget support from Central office and subscription support from Units has been decided and a detailed circular will be issued shortly.

CC MEMBERS

7. The meeting notes with concern that the state committees/affiliated units have failed to respond to provide the names of central committees in terms of bye laws of the AIBOA. Central Office shall initiate to submit the list of names of “30” CC to IBA at the earliest for duty leave.

ORGANISATION

8. To make the decisions arrived at the meeting more meaningful, democratic and implementable , all Office bearers are to attend all the meetings without fail except on extra ordinary circumstances. It has been also decided to address a communication to office bearers who are unable to participate in this exercise.

9. It has been decided to reiterate the decisions taken in the earlier meet held in Feb 2012 at Mamallapuram and its implementation in full measure by all the affiliated units.

10. The Office bearers noted with concern that the overdue State Committee conferences are to be completed and the dates of every State Conference is to be necessarily decided in consultation with Central Office of AIBOA without any exception.

11. The Central Committee meeting convened by the affiliates and also by the State Committees shall be participated and addressed by the General Secretary.

12. On the subject matter of Cooperative Bank, Officers of AP State, it has been decided to handle the same in coordination with AICBEF and to find a workable solution within a fortnight period

TARAK INSTITUTE

13. Efforts should be made by the affiliates and also the State Committees to utilize the “Tarak Institute of Banking and Trade Union research at least once in 18 months and a minimum of 100 days in a year to maintain the breakeven point. The Tamil Nadu State committee shall ensure minimum utilization of 30 days in a year .

ON SOUVENIR

14. The delayed publication of the “Souvenir” by the central office and it has been decided to complete the exercise at the earliest by entrusting the same to Com D S Ganesan and Com V Ramabhadran besides the responsibility to execute the same with the help of the Office bearers of Tamil Nadu State Committee of AIBOA.

15. In the matter of remittances to AP State Committee and also receipts to ING Vysya Units, the same will be attended to within 10 days.

ON SBI BALANCING COST

16. AIBOA stand on arbitrary illegal SBI balancing deduction found support from NUBE when its representatives admitted that deduction of SBI balancing cost from the kitty of Bipartite was wrong and instead the settlement should have left it to SBI to discuss and decide the matter outside the Bipartite which has been the practice so far. Our stand despite IBA and their henchmen defending it, get vindicated through bitter facts.

ON NUBE INTO UFBU

17. UFBU which kept the issue of admission of NUBE into UFBU pending in the last meeting, did not even put up the matter for discussion. This much for their concern to broad base UFBU strength for which they await SBI management and unions to permit. AIBOA hold exclusion of Com.L.Balasubramanian from UFBU is ungrateful since he was the root cause for the last Bipartite MOU to be signed by UFBU.

FELICITATIONS

The Office bearers felicitated Com Dayala Babu Vice president and Com G Gunasekaran Treasurer who had superannuated from the services of the Bank in the months of April 2012 and March 2012 respectively.

VOTE OF THANKS

The meeting concluded with the vote of thanks for the excellent work carried out by the AP State Committee in hosting the meet in a grand ambience and suiting the stature of our organization.

With greetings

Yours comradely,

S NAGARAJAN

GENERAL SECRETARY

Circular Letter No.10:VI:2012

July 17, 2012

ALL UNITS / STATE COMMITTEES

Dear Comrade

SUB : 7^th WAGE REVISION FOR OFFICERS – CHARTER OF DEMANDS – OUR APPROACH VIEWS FROM ALL THE SECTIONS OF OFFICERS

The term of present settlement on wages and service conditions will expire on 31 10 2012. As per the practice in vogue the charter of demand is to be submitted six months prior to the expiry of the settlement and the commencement of discussion to start three months prior to the expiry.

2.Apart from the above, it was decided amongst the constituent unions ie UFBU unanimously to finalise the common of charter of demands for onward submission to IBA and the time limit set for the same is 31 8 2012 by UFBU.

3. In line with broad understanding of the situation and also the developments, our Office bearers in the recently concluded meet held at Hyderabad on 11 7 2012 decided to constitute a committee with the following members.

1. Com M A Srinivasan - Tamilnadu CONVENOR

2. Com V.Anil Kumar - Andhra Pradesh

3. Com V P Ponkshe - Maharashtra

4. Com T R Verma - Harayana

5. Com K Raghava - Karnataka

6. Com Asim Dutta - West Bengal

7. Com AN Suresh - Karnataka

Chairman, Vice Chairman, President and General Secretary will be the ex- officio members of the Committee.

4. The tile limit set for collection of the viewpoints from

State Committees/Affiliated Units - 7^th Aug 2012

Broad blue print finalization of the Charter -17^th Aug 2012

Common Charter of demands by 4 Officers Organization not later than 31 Aug 2012

5. A detailed questionnaire is annexed herewith to be filled up by the affiliates, State Committees/Units and also from all Office Bearers Central Committee Members and interested individual Officers.

6. Time is the important factor and hence it is advised that the State Committees to adhere to the time schedule to make the exercise more meaningful and purposeful. The response may please be sent by email to aiboa.hq@gmail.com and to wagerevision.aiboa@gmail.com and also by means of hard copy to the Central Office of AIBOA.

Yours comradely

S NAGARAJAN

GENERAL SECRETARY

QUESTIONNAIRE

FINANCIAL DEMANDS:

1. Merger of DA at what Point and at Which Quarter for Construction of Basic Pay

2. DA neutralization should there be a change or the present system of 100% neutralization to continue

3. City Compensatory Allowance:

i) Need to recategoraise the areas Mega Cities/Metro/State Capitals and other Centres

ii) % of CCA

4. House Rent Allowance

Rate of HRA to be increased at par with 6^th Pay Commission

- Capital cost basis % is to be increased or not? (presently 150%)

- Whether self lease system is to be introduced or not?

- Any compensatory system equivalent to minimum HRA for officer occupying Quarters allotted by the Bank

5. P Q P : i) On reaching maximum should it be linked to quantum or one increment + DA or two increments + DA for JAIIB /CAIIB respectively.

6. Stagnation Increments : - Periodicity

Should it be like 6^th Pay commission ie 3% of pay +DA every year

7. Other Allowances : Medical Aid

Special Area Allowance

Hill and fuel Allowance

Halting allowance

Lodging Expenses , Boarding Expenses

PAA, Special Diem Allowance, Closing Allowance

- Should it be linked to BP of certain % without any maximum or consolidated one.

8. Leave Encashment : 240 days to continue or should be at par with RBI-300 days

9. Leave Travel Concession :

10. Hospitalization Reimbursement : Increase in quantum and the % of the amount for each Item .

Shall be compared with the costs of important Hospitals in India including AIIMS.

Hospitalization reimbursement to self and spouse even after retirement

% of reimbursement or any other method of Reimbursement

11. Compensation on Transfer : upward revision linked to one month’s gross salary

12. Pension : i) Updation of Pension for all and New pension Scheme

13.Any other suggestion on wage components:

NON FINANCIAL ITEMS:

1) Regulated Working Hours :

2) Compensatory off/payment in lieu of Working on holiday :

3) 5 days working :

4) Leave matters : PL/Casual Leave/Sick Leave

5) Bank Officers Disputes to be brought under Central Administrative Tribunal :

6) Restriction on Serving Officers to take up the number of Cases to be deleted:

7) Retired Bank officers can extend the defence assistance to serving Officers to be introduced.

8) Any other suggestion

Comrades the above are only illustrative list and not exhaustive .
Suggestions may be sent to the Central Office at the earliest. Mail to:: aiboa.hq@gmail.com / wagerevision.aiboa@gmail.com

Circular No.7:VI:2012

July 14, 2012

To:

ALL UNITS / STATE COMMITTEES

Dear Comrades

PREPATORY PROGRAMMES CULMINATING IN STRIKE ACTIONS.

As informed in our earlier circular to pursue the unresolved issues listed in the All India Strike action on 28^th Feb 2012 in addition to the issues listed by UFBU after its meeting at Kolkatta on 6^th June 2012, the Office Bearers of our organization met at Hyderabad on 11thJuly 2012 to take stock of the situation with particular reference to the preparedness of the rank and file and also the approach of the constituent unions in the UFBU meeting held at Chennai on 6^th July 2012.

2. The meeting had the benefit of the reporting on the UFBU and its approach towards the proposed strike actions by Com RJ Sridharan, Chairman as well as by the General Secretary. An important point that should be borne in mind is that the UFBU have been missing the sense of the timing in the matter of agitational programmes. On our elaborate analysis of the reporting by the Office Bearers and also less serious approach of some of the constituents, drive home the point that our organization broadly supports the issues listed out for agitation and more specifically and particularly on the following issues concerning the common members of banking fraternity.

ISSUES:

1. 1.Regulated working hours for Officers

2. 2. Pay parity to extension of 6.5% of revised pay from Nov 2007

3. 3. Compassionate ground appointments with an option to the grieving family

4. 4. Five days working in a week

5. 5. Stagnation free pay scales

6. 6. Standardisation of retiral benefits.

3. Many constituents including the acting convenor in his report suggested changes in the date of strike. Some suggested to change it after wards. AIBOA said postponement if any should be decided in the meeting itself. However the following preparatory programmes were decided towards strike.

PROGRAMMES:

17 7 2012	Dharna in all State Capitals and other important Centres
17 7 2012	Mass demonstrations at all centres
24 7 2012	Mass demonstration rallies, processions at all centres
25^th & 26^th July 2012	2 days All India Strike

4. We call upon our affiliated Units and State Committees to ensure membership mobilization of our organization in full measure to make the strike a memorable one.

With greetings

Yours comradely

S NAGARAJAN

GENERAL SECRETARY.

SPECIMEN FOR POSTER

OBSERVES ALL INDI A STRIKE ON 25^TH AND 26^TH JULY 2012

In Support of pending issues of UFBU and Demands of Bank Officers

Regulated Working Hours
Pay parity and extension of 6.5% of revised pay from Nov 2007
Compassionate ground appointments with an option to the grieving family
Five day working in a week
Stagnation free pay scales
Standardisation of retiral benefits

Circular Letter No.9:VI:2012

June 15, 2012

To:

ALL UNITS / STATE COMMITTEES

Dear comrades,

UNRESOLVED ISSUES AND THE FUTURE COURSE OF ACTION

TWO DAYS STRIKE IN JULY 2012

In the background of the call of “All India Protest Day” on 21^st May 2012 at all State Capitals by the constituents of UFBU, a meeting on 6^th June 2012 was held by the UFBU at Kolkata under the Presidentship of Com.Rajen Nagar, AIBEA.

UN RESOLVED ISSUES:

1. Banking Sector Reforms:

Amendment Bill contains

v Raising of the voting rights of shareholders from 10% to 26% in the Private Sector Banks

v Exempting the Bank mergers from “Competition commission”

v I Increasing the voting rights in Public Sector Banks from 1% to 10%

v Supersession of Bank Boards etc.

2. Outsourcing of permanent regular jobs

3. Implementation of Khandelwal Committee recommendations contrary to the settled procedure of Bipartite mechanism in the Industry level.

4. Issues concerning the common employee:

Regulated working hours, compassionate Ground appointments, 5 day Banking, Uniform revised guidelines on Staff Housing loan, Pension related issues.

The calendar for observance of programmes are as under.

PROGRAMMES:

25-6-2012 To 24-7-2012	Explanatory meetings by all Constituents and State-level UFBUs
18-6-2012	UFBU to write to IBA/Govt. conveying the agitational programme
20-6-2012	Submission of memorandum to all Constituent Unions/State units to IBA Chairman
21-6-2012	UFBU to write to all Central Trade unions and leaders of political parties seeking their support
27-6-2012	Mass Demonstrations in all bigger Centres
6-7-2012	UFBU to serve formal Strike Notice
10-7-2012	Badge wearing
17-7-2012	Dharna in all State Capitals and other important centres
17-7-2012	Mass Demonstrations at all centres
24-7-2012	Mass Demonstrations, rallies, processions at all centres
25^th & 26^th July, 2012	2 Days ALL INDIA STRIKE

We call upon the members and Units to participate in all the preparatory programmes “as prelude” to the strike call.

Office Bearers are to meet shortly at Hyderabad in the first week of July 2012 to take a review of the entire emerging situations and implementation of programme.

With greetings,

Yours fraternally

/S.NAGARAJAN/

GENERAL SECRETARY

Circular Letter No.8:VI:2012

MAY 15, 2012

To:

ALL UNITS / STATE COMMITTEES

Dear Comrades,

ALL INDIA PROTEST DAY - 21ST MAY 2012.

On receiving the intimation about the UFBU Meeting on 10th May 2012 at Bengaluru, we have informed that the date of the meeting as well as the place of the meeting were not suitable and sought for a postponement. Our communication was not responded by the Convener, UFBU. Hence, in the meeting held on 10th May 2012 at Bengaluru, AIBOA, representatives have not participated.

Not withstanding the unresponsiveness by UFBU, the decision to observe an All India protest day on 21st May 2012 to pursue to list of issues decided in the earlier meeting held at New Delhi on December 13, 2011 we advise the units to participate in the All India Demands Day programmes on 21st May 2012 at State Capitals as well as the mass rally before the Parliament at New Delhi. Our Office bearers will meet and discuss the developments to decide future course of action.

The further developments will be communicated in due course

With Greetings

Yours comradely,

S. NAGARAJAN

GENERAL SECRETARY

GIST OF UFBU CIRCULAR NO 9 DATED 11 5 2012

The Meeting of UFBU was held at Bangalore and the Meeting was presided over by Com Miling Nadkarnni.

After observing a minute’s silence to condole the death of Com R N Goodbole, the meeting discussed the issues concerning bank employees and Officers. The approval of the Cabinet to the proposed amendment to the Banking Reforms and the challenges before the Banking fraternity was discussed. The meeting took strong exception to the proposal of the Government to close the loss making branches and to expand the rural base through opening of the Ultra Small Branches and the pressure of the employees and officers on the increased work load . On the recruitment in banks, the meeting observed that the Banks and IBPS are keen to implement the Khandalwal Committee Recommendations. The meeting observed with concern, instead of adequate recruitments , more and more banking jobs are outsourced. The meeting was equally concerned on the increasing trend on the part of Government in issuing unilateral guidelines/policies on H R matters affecting the existing settlements in these area.

The meeting was concerned that our demand for 5 days banking, regulated working hours for officers and Compassionate appointment, improvement in pension regulations were not considered by the IBA/Government . The meeting also felt that the Government and IBA are confronting with UFBU on issues and UFBU meeting has decided that sustained agitation programmes are warranted to meet the challenges.

Accordingly UFBU has decided to undertake national level campaign on all the above issues and challenges and build up struggle programme culminating in 2 days strike during monsoon session of the parliament in July 2012.

In the meantime, it was decided in the UFBU meeting to observe 21^st May as ALL INDIA PROTEST DAY with mass demonstrations at all State Capitals and Mass rally before Parliament in Delhi on 21 5 2012.

- Issues against

- Banking Las ( Amendments) bill and other reform measures

- Closure of Rural Branches

- Increasing outsourcing of jobs

- Attacks on Trade Union Rights

- Government’s unilateral directions on HR issues etc.

Circular letter No.6:VI:2012

May 2, 2012

To:

ALL UNITS / STATE COMMITTEES

Dear comrades,

GOVERNMENT GUIDELINES TO BANKS

ON SABBATICAL LEAVE FOR WOMEN EMPLOYEES

With reference to the subject matter, UFBU has taken up the matter with the Chairman, IBA vide letter No.1367/06/12 dated 28.03.2012.

UFBU in its letter has informed IBA against the unilateral introduction of Sabbatical Leave as leave mattes are subject matter of Bi-partism. UFBU has also requested IBA to take up the matter with Government to introduce Child Care Leave on par with Central Government employees under 6^th Pay Commission [Child care leave with pay and allowances] and thus put an end to the discrimination of Women employees of Bank vis-a-vis Central Government employees.

All our Units and State Committees are to take note of the above and inform our members.

With greetings,

Yours fraternally,

/S.NAGARAJAN/

GENERAL SECRETARY

Text of UFBU’s Letter No. 1367/6/12 dt. 28-3-2012 to IBA

GOVERNMENT GUIDELINES TO BANKS ON SABBATICAL LEAVE FOR WOMEN EMPLOYEES

1. At the UFBU meeting held on 21.03.2012 at Mangalore, there was an occasion to discuss on the unilateral changes proposed by the Government of India on some of the service conditions, quoting Khandelwal Committee recommendations. The committee took strong objection to by passing of well - established bipartism on HR matters. One such issue is the Government of India guidelines to Private Sector Banks, vide its letter No. F.No.9/20/2011-IR dated 28.02.2012 on grant of two years Sabbatical Level to women employees and to implement the same with the approval of the Boards of the Banks.

2. During the 9^th Bipartite Settlement, the UFBU demanded the grand of Child Care Leave to women employees in Banks, on similar lines as available to the Central Government employees under 6^th Pay Commission, but the same was declined by the IBA. But, now unilaterally, sabbatical leave is sought to be introduced in Banks.

3. In the Government, women employees are extended childcare leave with pay; in the Banks, the Sabbatical leave is without pay and other benefits. Thus, women employees in the Banks are discriminated as against Government employees.

4. We therefore, request you to please take up the issue with the Government for introduction of Child Care leave, on par with Central Government employees, to Women employees/officers, working in the Banking Industry at the earliest.”

Circular Letter No.5:VI:2012 April 27, 2012
To:
ALL UNITS / STATE COMMITTEES

Dear comrades,

We reproduce the letter addressed by All India Bank Retirees Federation to Shri G.D.Nadaf, General Secretary, AIBOC which is self explanatory. We request our Office Bearers, Units and State Committees to educate on the role of AIBOC in forming a separate organisation of Retirees when more than 70% of the retirees are affiliated to AIBRF.

With Greetings,
Yours comradely,
/S.NAGARAJAN/
GENERAL SECRETARY

                                                        A L L   I N D I A   B AN K   R E T I R E E S ’   F E D E R A T I O N
                                               D-1/1, Sector-C, Scheme-71,Near Kasara Bazar School, Indore – 452 009.

Ref:2012/725 Date: 21st April.2012

To
                 Shri G. D. Nadaf
                 General Secretary
                 All India Bank Officers’ Confederation (AIBOC)
                 Bangalore

Sir,

Re: Launching of New Organisation of bank retirees’ by AIBOC
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We have come to know from the communications issued by AIBOC in the recent past and the proceedings of the foundation conference held at Nagpur that AIBOC has decided to launch new organisation of bank retirees named as “All India Banks” Pensioners’ and Retirees Confederation’ and has constituted adhoc-committee of 71 persons in this connection.

2. At AIBRF level, we have great respect for AIBOC, its leaders and its functionaries. It is the largest body of bank officers and important constituent of UFBU. However, we are of the view that AIBOC move in forming the new retiree organisation will have significant consequences on the retiree movement in the coming years ,we would like to draw your kind attention on the following points which need serious consideration before AIBOC/new organisation move further in the matter.

3. We find from the documents released at the time of foundation conference that this new body is being formed with an aim to function as a CONFEDERATION to coordinate activities of retirees at the apex level. As per our understanding, concept of confederation is that it is formed with an object to bring existing organisations functioning at All India level or state level at common platform so the activities of various players having uniform and identical interest can be coordinated in better and effective manners. We find that this is how AIBOC & AIBEA or other confederations were born. But in forming the new confederation of AIBOC, it is happening other way round. First the confederation has been set up and now the direction has been issued to the members of adhoc committee to mobilize the pensioners and retirees bank wise and to seek affiliation with AIBPARC at the earliest. (Ref: AIBOC Circular No. 42 dated 19.04.2012). This call of AIBOC will result into creating split among the retirees rather than forging unity and coordination among them.

4. One of the reasons given in your report for formation of the confederation is that there is mushroom growth in retiree organisations and they have been formed by individuals without application of mind. Here, we would like to draw your kind attention on certain facts which are contrary to the picture given in the report. All India Bank Retirees’ Federation (AIBRF) was formed 18 years back immediately after introduction of the pension scheme in the banking industry to protect the interest of the retirees. Since then, it has moved from strength to strength and today it represents 32 banks with membership of more than 60,000. Similarly Federation of SBI Retirees Association with membership of more than 1.20 Lacs. (You have also confirmed this figure under para 47 of your report presented in the foundation conference) and RBONC are the other large and creditable organisations of retirees which are in existence for last several years. These 3 organisations represent almost 70% of bank retirees and have perfect coordination and periodical consultation among themselves. In view of these facts, it is too harsh and far from the ground realities when you say ‘There are large number of pensioners’ and retirees’ organisations which have sprung up all over the country. These organisations are self supporting and in several instances are laid by the individuals who have found on their own volition without any proper direction nor application of mind in dealing with the issue concerning the pensioners and retirees in the banking industry’ (Para 43 of your report presented in the foundation conference). Here, it may be clarified that AIBRF is an independent organisation and not promoted by any in service unions and is committed to maintain its independent nature as it firmly believes that this structure is in the best interest of the retirees. We have seen that in earlier years some of the officers’ organisations offered associated membership to the retirees. But this concept failed to take off and ultimately had to be dropped because the retiree issues could not get the priority in their agenda.

5. As stated earlier, retiree movement started in banking industry about 20 years back immediately after introduction of pension scheme. Further, as mentioned above, the above referred 3 retirees organisations which almost represents 70% of bank retirees are functioning effectively and have emerged as serious pressure group to protect retirees interest. It is also not correct to say that there is too much multiplicity of retiree organisations and number of such organisations is as high as 400 as stated in your report. According to our information this number is not more than 30-35. Now, after gap of 20 years, AIBOC initiative in forming another retirees organisation that too by establishing new parallel set up at the bank/state level is fraught with danger and may become serious threat to the retiree unity at the crucial juncture when core issues of retirees are close to solution in near future.We are of the view that if AIBOC is genuinely interested in organising the retirees, their efforts should be directed to coordinate the activities of the existing retiree organisations at the apex level by holding consultation and discussion with them and make efforts to ensure place for such body in the UFBU at least as an associated member to begin with so united picture of 9 lakh bank employees and 4 lakh retirees can be placed before the government.

6. You have stated in Para 31 of the report “In view of the divergent views between the AIBOC and the workmen unions, the total number of pension optees was 50% in the banking industry.” Nobody can know better than you that this position brought serious financial pains to those retiree colleagues who didn’t opt for pension in 1995 under confused set of situation created due to divergent views among unions and gross injustice to those who opted for pension in the absence of solution of their core issues in last 18 years. This situation was a Himalayan blunder and its pain can be only experienced and can not be expressed in words. However, because of sustained and continuous efforts made by retirees’ organisations and with the support of UFBU, ultimately under 9th settlement, one more pension option was extended to the past retirees and today 95% of retirees are pensioners. It has also opened new hopes for past retirees and that their pending core issues will now be resolved. But we find that at this stage AIBOC has decided to float another retiree organisation. We are afraid this move will have serious adverse repercussions on retirees’ movement. It is pertinent to mention that if pending issues of retirees are not addressed in near future or in the 10th wage settlement, we are afraid that it could become too late to deal with them in view of the fact that introduction of New Pension scheme in the banking industry would change whole complexion of trade union activities and priorities of retirement benefits in the coming years. Therefore, any imprudent move at this stage could be fatal and more painful to the retiree issues than what was witnessed in1995 and its consequences realised in the subsequent years.

7. Confederation concept calls for coordination among the different players operating in the sector and coordination calls for consultation.However we find that before launching AIBPARC, the sub committee formed by AIBOC under the chairmanship of Com.K.D.Khera didn’t consider it proper to hold consultation with the existing retirees’ organisations like ours. We do not know how confederation concept can be effectively developed without taking them into confidence. This situation lead us to believe that idea behind launching the confederation is basically to float parallel and alternative retiree set up in the banking industry. You have stated in your speech at the conference that motive behind floating the confederation is not to break and split the existing organisations. But we find that action plan now being rolled out is not in conformity to your above statement.

8. In view of the above it is our humble request to you to review the entire matter in the larger interest of the retirees and retiree movement and hold comprehensive consultation with the existing retirees’ organisations before you move further in the matter.

With regards

Yours sincerely
(S. C. JAIN)
General Secretary

Mobile:+91 93021 15322 E-Mail: sharbat_123@rediffmail.com Website: www.aibrf

Circular No.6:VI:2012

April 17, 2012

To:

ALL UNITS / STATE COMMITTEES

Comrades,

BARE FACTS OF PARITY IN

PENSION BALANCING COST

The story of deceit exhibited during pension option time during 1993 by SBI unions who spearheaded the movement against pension to substitute PF in Banks has become full circle with SBI union Chief as UFBU Chief asking for pension to VRS optees after keeping silent in the negotiations, despite AIBOA raising it, is now complete with claiming extra allowance to SBI as a non-existing compensatory demand, abjectly blinked on by the UFBU and unions.

Therefore it is necessary to look to the history to find out how SBI hegemony is allowed to operate not only our Banks but also on our unions for rubbishing the agreed Golden principle of one Industry – one cadre – one pay ultimately diluting Bipartite machinery. What today the unions alleges IBA of ignoring bilateralism is also due to the unions’ own conduct to allow discriminations based on size of SBI destroying the structure of uniform pay and service conditions.

It was in the background of the RBI employees and officers getting the “Pension in lieu of contributory Provident fund” with effect from 01.01.1986, the issue of pension option became the centre stage issue of the trade unions in the Banking Industry. It is a matter of pride to recall the demand of pension was raised by the founder General Secretary of our organization late Com.P.K.Menon in 1989.

On 20^th May 1993, a MOU was signed by the then General Secretary Com.Tarakeswar Chakraborti, AIBEA and Com.S.D.Dhopeshwarkar, Asst.Secretary, AIBEA with IBA. A full fledged settlement on Pension was signed by all the unions on 29^th October 1993. One of the best achievements made by AIBOA in the annals of the Trade Union history was ensuring the “cradle to grave” facility of pension in lieu of contributory provident fund to the entire bank men.
At that point of time, in order to divert the attention of the Bank employees and officers, the then State Bank of India Union’s leadership organized Joint Action committee nay Joint Attack Committee comprising of all anti-AIBEA/AIBOA unions, as they were feeling

that they lost their ground to stand, on account of the pension settlement.

The appeasement policy of the owners and the State Bank management are well known to one and all. Against the achievement of “pension” to Nationalized Bank work force, the non-pension optees were offered Provident fund at 10% on Basic pay + DA as on 01.11.1993 against the laid down practice as that of 10% of PF is recoverable only on Basic pay and not on Basic pay +DA.
The pension settlement in the Industry gave raise to the strong feeling that Nationalized Bank workforce are certainly going to be better placed in the matter ofsuperannuation benefits. Considering the news of pension scheme becoming a reality in Banks,

SBI unions supported by their Management made a counter move of 3^rd benefit in the Industry so that Banks will not get pension which will reduce SBI much inferior in retiral benefits. Unfortunately as SBI used the leader of AIBOC, officers in many Banks were lured into the trap dividing all Banks except SBI and delaying pension in other Banks. To quote the facts – State Bank of India workforce is entitled to have provident fund contributions of “Employees and Employers”, Gratuity applicable under act + Pension ie; Three retrial benefits. This settlement which was subsequently to 6^th Bipartite to workforce, gave a benefit of “Rupees one hundred crores” as an additional benefit facilitating the State Bank workforce to draw “special compensatory allowance of .375 to .550 ” to begin with introduced w.e.f. 01.11.1993. This amount was outside the Bipartite settlement. This allowance was demanded by other Banks through apex unions including AIBOC for all Banks conceding AIBOA approach and demand made earlier on par.

In the 7th bipartite, an amount of .60 crores was granted by the Government to State Bank workforce in lieu of their agreeing for total computerization and to equalize the pay parity of 12.25%.
In the 8^th Bipartite, there was no demand neither raised by SBI unions nor considered by Govt. of India to State Bank workforce.
When this being the case, in the last wage revision exercises, even the provision made by State Bank of India to pension fund was not included in the “establishment” cost provided by the Bankers to the Unions to arrive at the basic figure as at the close of 31.03.2007. To that extent the general officers have lost the benefit of 17.5% increase in the general increase otherwise was eligible to be paid / included. How this is not corrected when separate earmarking is done in Bipartite? UFBU will have to answer this. The same UFBU chief who now says VRS load was included in additional calculation why did not included load of pension in SBI in the Establishment cost for wage revision when SBI pension balancing was earmarked.
While it was the decision of UFBU to demand the “PF balancing cost” to pension optees on the same lines of pension balancing cost available to “SBI workforce” at the last minute the same was not pursued to the logical end at the time of wage revision and for the first time Bipartite was earmarked with SBI balancing cost.
AIBOA is certainly concerned with the culling out of .129.15 crores from the officers wage revision kitty under the specious plea that SBI officers have been denied of 17.5% wage hike is untenable in toto. 17.5% wage hike is the overall increase to the officers’ community as a whole and not to individual officers placed in each stage in individual Banks. It is neither Bank specific nor stage specific to officers’ scale of pay. It is industrywise settlement whre the rough and smooth are shared by all.
It was categorically agreed by the IBA and the Negotiating unions that the “balancing cost of pension will be credited to the pension fund only”. Instead of putting it, in black and white, the wordings were so coined in a sophiscated way to avoid any misgivings between the two parties to get the better of times
We have details related to the disbursement and also the “quid-pro-quo” understandings on “outsourcing” exercise by SBI unions. Govt., has also convinced about the righteous approach of AIBOA on record that by conceding this demand of payment of allowance would add the disparity further between the Nationalized Bank workforce and the SBI workforce.
AIBOA strongly feel that the Govt. of India should have stick to its original stand firmly that the pension corpus should be strengthened. Alternatively the amount disbursed by SBI as a “special balancing allowance” should have been outside the Bipartite “cost of wage revision” as it was done in 6^th Bipartite [01.11.1993] and the 7^th Bipartite to avoid the perpetual percolation of discrimination and disparity between the Nationalized Bank workforce and SBI workforce and cause erosion of 17.5% increase for all other Banks except SBI and paying it in cash to employees in SBI.
As AIBOA stands for removal of disparity of any nature, in this case too, we shall strive hard to nail the lies with firmness, and aim to achieve the parity.

With greetings,

Yours comradely,

/S.NAGARAJAN/

GENERAL SECRETARY

Circular Letter No.4:VI:2012

April 17, 2012

ALL UNITS / STATE COMMITTEES

Dear Comrades

We reproduce the letter addressed by us to the Chairman IBA, Mumbai on the matter of Extension of option of pension to VRS / CRS optees which is self explanatory.

Yours fraternally,

/S NAGARAJAN/

GENERAL SECRETARY

TEXT OF OUR LETTER NO. IBA:BKS:27:2012 DATED 05.04.2012 ADDRESSED TO

THE CHAIRMAN, IBA, MUMBAI

SIR,

REG: EXTENSION OF OPTION OF PENSION TO VRS / CRS OFFICERS.

We draw your kind attention to the provisions of the MOU signed on 29th November 2009 and also the subsequently covered in the Joint note dated 27^th April 2010 on extension of option to officers:

CLAUSE NO 2[i] OF THE MOU dated 27.11.2009

“Those employees who were in the service of the Bank as on 29.09.1995 / 26.3.1996 who were eligible but, did not opt for pension and retired thereafter shall also be extended the option for joining the Pension Scheme.....”

CLAUSE NO D[a] OF THE JOINT NOTE dated 27.04.2010

“Those who were in the service of the Banks prior to 29^th September 1995 in case of Nationalized Banks /26^th March 1996 in case of Associate Banks of State Bank of India, did not opt for pension and had retired after that date”

Officers are normally ceased from the employment through, normal superannuation, voluntary retirement under OSR clause no 19, and compulsory retirement arising out of the process of departmental action.

We have drawn the attention of the IBA representatives on 13th April, 2010 the need to extend the pension option to officers opted under voluntary retirement under OSR citing the provisions of the Supreme Court judgement on the clarification of retirees.

“C.A.No.6959/1997 with others dated April5, 2000-Bank of India and Indu Rajagopalan & Others”

We may particularly recall and point out that during the negotiations, we had specifically referred to the written copy of Supreme Court Judgement on Pension to VRS optees, when we met IBA with other UFBU constituents. Unfortunately it was glossed over by IBA Representatives. Thus despite valid judgement of the highest Law Forum, VRS optees have been denied one more option, legitimately available to them.

Now, our organisational contention has been further reiterated in another judgement delivered in the High Court judicature of Andhra Pradesh, in a Writ Petition No 9061/2011, wherein there is no differentiation in the matter of compulsory retirement and also of normal retirement and a direction has been given to extend the option to officers who were compulsorily retired.

A COPY OF THE JUDGEMENT IS SENT HEREWITH FOR YOUR RECORDS.

1. Further the Government of India , in a reply dated 10.08.2010 to specific query has clearly told that they had directed the IBA to extend the Second Option of Pension to those voluntarily retired after 15 years of Service.

2. Moreover in another communication, RBI has also clarified that they have not restricted / denied one more option for Pension to VRS optees.

Both copies are enclosed for your ready reference.

In view of the above unassailable facts rendering justice to Retirees under Banks declared VRS optees is denied for the past 2 years unnecessarily causing undue agony .

We urge upon you to advise the member banks to extend the option of pension to officers who have retired compulsorily and also the officers retired voluntarily as there is no bar, as per the provisions of the joint note signed on 27th April, 2010.

Yours faithfully,

S.NAGARAJAN.

GENERAL SECRETARY

Encl: as above
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IBA :BKS :25 :2012

April 5, 2012

To :

THE CHAIRMAN,

INDIAN BANKS ASSOCIATION,

MUMBAI.

SIR,

REG: INTERVENTION OF THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA IN THE FUNCTIONING OF THE BANKS - FULL DAY WORKING ON 07TH APRIL,2012.

We are perplexed to note that Government of India under the specious plea of inadequate customer service on account of two consecutive holidays in the month of april,2012, directed the banks to function full day on 7th April 2012.

While the valued customer of the banking system have alternative channels of delivery system, the direction given to the banks is purely uncalled for and also interfere with the administrations of various state governments and also respective regional offices of Reserve Bank of India, as the holidays are declared by the state government under n.i. act.

We feel convinced that in view of the present structure of 3 tier delivery system of bank services, cash requirements of both corporates and individuals are met through ATM network and online facilities.

The holidays are not uniformly applicable to all states, as for example, in the state of Madhya Pradesh, the Mahavir Jayanthi has been preponed, though declared earlier as 5th is the mahavir jayanthi.

IN VIEW OF THE VARIOUS NITTY GRITTIES INVOLVED IN THIS DIRECTION, AIBOA DEMANDS THE FOLLOWING:

1. 1.SINCE THE SATURDAY HAS GOT THE FIXED WORKING HOURS OF FOUR HOURS, BUSINESS HOURS ARE RESTRICTED TO TWO AND HALF HOURS ONLY.

2. 2.ELONGATION OF WORKING HOURS FROM FOUR HOURS TO SIX AND HALF HOURS ON SATURDAY, NEEDS ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION IN THE FORM OF COMPENSATORY OFF FOR A DAY COUPLED WITH PAYMENT OF CASH EXPENSES FOR THE CONVEYANCE FOR THE OFFICERS.

3. 3.AS DONE BY THE STATE BANK OF INDIA FOR THE COLLECTION OF TAXES ON 31ST MARCH, 2012,OFFICERS WORKING IN ALL BANK BRANCHES SHOULD BE COMPENSATED ADEQUATELY WITH COMPENSATORY OFF.

We shall be much obliged if you can take up with Government of India in this regard and advise the banks accordingly.

Yours faithfully,

S NAGARAJAN

GENERAL SECRETARY

Copy to:

The Joint Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Financial Services, GOI, New Delhi

CIRCULAR No.5:VI:2012

February 28, 2012

ALL UNITS/STATE COMMITTEES

Dear Comrades,

ALL INDIA INDUSTRIAL STRIKE.

ON 28 FEBRUARY 2012.

A GRAND SUCCESS.

OUR ORGANIZATION HAS PLAYED ITS DUE ROLE.

In the independent India, for the first time, all the Central Trade Unions, on common issues concerning citizens of this country of all walks of life, the All India Industrial Strike was declared and observed today through out the country. All India Bank Officers’ Association, our organization, did carry out the patriotic role by participating in the strike for the issues concerning officers listed out in addition to the demands raised by Central Trade Unions.

Ten crores people have participated in today’s strike. Our role in the Banking Industry and also of insurance in the financial sector is extraordinarily appreciated as a key factor. 15 Unions operating in the Banking Sector have participated in this historical strike. Along with the financial sector workforce, participation by ports, telecom, power and vast number of independent federations made this first industrial strike a resounding success sending an appropriate warning to the Govt. at the Centre.

Today’s strike is against the Government’s anti labour policies and also of anti people policies dictated by the international monetary fund and world bank. The citizens are no longer prepared to bear the burden of attacks and repeated attacks on jobs and job security. Their willingness to struggle against the approach is reflected in today’s strike. The gains of this strike are of growing unity of the working class and the trade union movement in our country. This has to be preserved, protected and promoted further. That shall be the task of the Trade Union and the mood of the strike is the echo of collective voice with the slogan “together we achieve.”

Let us firm up our resolve to unify a struggle of greater unity of Officers’ Organizations to ensure parity and to end the hegemonistic loot by SBI management and their Unions of the Bipartite system clandestinely.

Kudos to one and all who have participated in this patriotic exercise and more so the officers belonging to our organization in particular.

Yours comradely,

S. NAGARAJAN

GENERAL SECRETARY

Circular No.4:VI:2012

February 13, 2012

ALL UNITS / STATE COMMITTEES

Dear Comrades,

32^ndFOUNDATION DAY

Our organisation, AIBOA, was founded on 14th February 1981 at Nagpur, a Trade Union Organisation akin to the ideological concept of AIBEA, in the background of unforgivable gross betrayal of the then AICOBOO.

The sole architect of AIBOA, Com. Prabhat Kar, while addressing the delegates at the Foundation Conference said:

"The workers in our Industry should understand and develop a class concept. The does not mean everybody should join politics. There are two sections known as those who exploit you and those who are exploited. The exploited community should unite and should understand that all of them irrespective of their cadre belong to a single class. The struggle of this class is against the exploiters is known as class struggle. 80% of the officers in the Industry are the products from the clerical cadre due to our own promotion policy settlements. The Officers are also exploited by the many negative policies of the Management. In fact, they suffer more through such exploitation regarding job accountability with laser rewards, promotions, indiscriminate transfers and many other things. Their struggles and fight for a better life, should be the responsibility of the workmen cadre. So also, the problems of workmen cadre shall have to be fought for by the community of officers. This is, what is called a class concept among all those in various levels of Administration but working in this Industry."

True to his vision, AIBOA, has conducted the building of the organisation in a systematic and cohesive way all these years, through the coordinated working with the AIBEA, like the two railway lines running parallel take the passengers safely to their destination, without the two railway lines crossing each other, ultimately, to achieve the goal viz. a reasonable standard of living achieved by the twin organisations in our Industry.

The apt slogan of this founding day shall be "together we achieve".

Greeting on this foundation day, AIBEA, has released a circular echoing the same concern and also the contribution made by AIBOA during this three decades of purposeful existence.

With foundation day greetings,

Yours comradely,

S. NAGARAJAN

GENERAL SECRETARY

ALL INDIA BANK EMPLOYEES' ASSOCIATION

CIRCULAR NO. 26/115/2012/2 10^th February, 2012

TO ALL UNITS & MEMBERS

Dear Comrades,

· OUR GREETINGS TO AIBOA ON ITS
32^ND FOUNDING DAY – 14^TH FEB, 2012

31 years ago, as per the decision of AIBEA, we founded AIBOA with a view to develop a trade union organisation for bank officers on the lines, philosophy, principles and perceptions of AIBEA as well as to present a strong, cohesive and co-ordinated movement of employees and officers in the banking sector. AIBEA and AIBOA have been designed to function as two sides of the same coin. This was the vision of Com. Prabhat Kar who envisioned the need for a joint movement to face the future challenges. Thus was born our AIBOA on 14-2-1981.

Over these three decades, AIBOA has covered a good distance and has grown into an organisation of its own repute. Today it is the second largest trade union for the bank officers in our country. It has membership in the public sector banks including IDBI Bank, in the private sector Banks, in the Co-operative Banks and Regional Rural Banks.

AIBOA has been playing a significant role both within the banking sector as well as in the general trade union movement. In the days of struggle for introduction of pension scheme when AIBEA was opposed by all the other Unions, AIBOA played a very important role and stood with AIBEA like a rock. In many of the general struggles of the working class, AIBOA has taken part in the strike actions notwithstanding various constraints and difficulties. Now also, AIBOA has given the call for strike on 28^th February, 2012.

It is very notable that AIBOA has taken initiatives to identify itself with the task and need to organise general unorganised workers. Their setting up an exclusive Fund for this purpose is worthy of emulation.

Strengthening AIOBA and improving the co-ordination in our activities and struggles is a common task of all of us in AIBEA and AIBOA at all levels. Our Unions under AIBEA should take more and more steps to build up strong AIOBA Unions in every Bank.

While conveying our greetings and best wishes to AIBOA on their 32^nd Founding Day, let us resolve to make AIBOA more stronger, more vibrant and more effective.

After all, AIBEA and AIBOA are synonyms. Strengthening AIBOA means strengthening AIBEA. Together, let us march forward.

Yours comradely,

C.H. VENKATACHALAM

GENERAL SECRETAR

UNITED FORUM OF NATIONALISED BANK OFFICERS’ ASSOCIATION

[UFNBOA]

/AINBOF - AIBOA-INBOC - NOBO/

KOLKATA

Camp: Delhi

Date: 22.11.2011

To:

The Joint Secretary

Department of Banking

Ministry of Finance

Govt. of India

NEW DELHI

Sir,

IMPORTANT ISSUES OF OFFICERS OF NATIONALIZED BANKS

REQUIRING YOUR INTERVENTION FOR EARLY RESOLUTION

At the outset we thank you in abundance for granting audience to us despite your busy schedule.

Our Forum viz., UNBOA comprising of AINBOF, AIBOA, INBOC and NOBO comprises of officers from about 22 major Banks in Public Sector besides representing overwhelming numbers of officers in Private Banks and Foreign Banks. UFNBOA represents majority officers in the Banking industry.

Extension of special package of 6.5% of Revised Basic pay to officers of State Bank of India with effect from 01.11.2007.

The recent wage revision of Bank officers, upon clearance by the Govt., was implemented in the Banking Industry along with that of IX Bipartite settlement for Award staff for all including officers and employees in SBI. In this wage revision exercise, based on Memorandum of understanding [MOU] signed on 27.11.2009 and Memorandum of settlement signed on 27.04.2010, a sum of 2239 crores was the annual increase under all heads constituting 17.5% of rise over the establishment expenses figures of 31.3.2007 which includes cost under superannuation benefits of all. While all the issues including that of costing on Pension etc., were all discussed and the MOU was signed with a clear understanding as to sharing etc., suddenly when the settlement was signed the issue of SBI balancing cost on account of pension introduction in nationalized banks as an one more option issue, was raised and a sum of 129.30 crores representing officers pension costing was made part of final cost of financial impact on account of Officers wage revision and stating that SBI and the organizations would decide how to finalize it. Earlier when this issue was raised with the Finance Ministry it was clearly made known to all that such a decided cost would only be used for improving the Pension fund of officers in SBI. Contrary to such an understanding it was shockingly learnt that in March 2011 SBI management and Officers Federation have agreed for introduction of new SBI allowance for officers in service at 6.6% of Basic pay. This has not only vitiated the Bipartite settlement of 17.5% increase in Banks the industry level settlement but its sanctity stands affected. The officers of nationalized banks are already aggrieved that there is an abject disparity in important aspects of emoluments and entitlements between both the sections and the recent discriminatory treatment has perpetuated and widened the gulf between the officers of SBI and Non-SBI officers. We look to the Ministry to address this issue to end the feeling of silent suffocation by Nationalized Bank officers.

Therefore in the interest of sanctity of settlement and justice we seek extension of 6.5% Basic pay as allowance to all officers in all Banks, not only in SBI, as one more option has no element of compensation at all.

B. The Bank officers deserve a Regulated working hours which is eluding solution for quite a few years. The issue has been further aggravated with Bank managements, without exception, calling upon field functionaries, Branch Managers to attend Business conferences, recovery schedule, special drive in respect of funds and organizing credit camps on Sundays and even holidays and this has become a regular phenomenon. This has taken a heavy toll on the health and life of a large number of officers and their families and some have paid heavy price of ending their lives not being able to bear the work pressure. Hence this issue being resolved immediately, brooks no delay.

UFNBOA is ready to negotiate the issue for a satisfactory settlement to restore health standards of officers in Banks and assure that in case of any emergency, all officers will rise to the occasion without any let up. .

C. With the technology savvy not sparing the Banks and banking services at the counter within the premises etc., being replaced by anytime Banking, internet banking, anywhere Banking etc., and important clientele adopting 5 days week, there is a strong urge for introduction of 5 days week in banks for all.

In fact with growing ATM networks of nearly 50000, CBS network in all banks and on line facilities and customer terminals lot of petrol/diesel will be saved by 5 days week, which may otherwise be put to use.

Along with those prime issues the following issues need your Ministrys intervention with concern towards Bank officers.

1. When today everyone is covered by Pension scheme, thanks to the Ministry’s clearance, whether in service or retired, a very small and negligible section of Banks OSR permitted VRS officers being denied the same looks very odd. When about 8 lacs employees and officers who are in service and about 3 lakh officers and employees retired after 1.1.1986 are covered by Pension, a small section of just less than 8000 needs to be shown a humanitarian gesture by the Ministry.

2. The rules governing appointment of Chairman and Managing Directors/Executive Directors need to be with the perspective of integrated and time tested policy to ensure that the term of such appointments are with rationale and systemized to give the incumbents the chance to use the incumbents’ expertise rather than the availability of his/her left over service for being considered or otherwise to the said posts.

3. The Officer Director appointment needs to be revisited and it should be dynamic and pragmatic taking into account the representatives organization being given the chance to have a say in this so that the Board has the opportunity of his/her presence which would enable policy formulations in Banks interests being taken smoothly.

4. The report about rotability of officers from scale V and above between Banks, upon promotion or on lateral movement will introduce a new element which would not be in the larger interest of the Banks in both the ways – transferor and transferee Banks. It may not prove beneficial for Banks since decades of experience gained in respective areas are lost suddenly through such uprootment.

5. PAY SCALES

In the matter of starting Pay, a basic attraction to youngsters to join any bank, SBI offers to its new recruits 4 more increments than what nationalized Banks offer. In the process every DRO and every PO choose to join SBI. There are several instances where young officers resign from nationalized Banks to join SBI. Such migration is causing considerable damage to the image of nationalized banks.

6. STAGNATION FREE SCALES OF PAY

SBI has scheme under which its officers are given automatic upgradation of scales, based on seniority, upto Scale III. This provides the facility of stagnation free scales of pay for SBI officers. Whereas the officers of non-State Bank of India real under the pressure of stagnation and consequent frustration and demoralization.

7. RETIRAL BENEFITS

Further, SBI provides three retiral benefits to its employees. Pension, Provident Fund and Gratuity. But in Nationalised Banks, officers get only two retiral benefits viz., Pension and Gratuity. This disparity leads to discrimination even after one’s retirement from service.

Therefore, UFNBOA appeals and urge upon you to advise the concerned authriteis to immediately negotiate and settle the issue in a conciliatory manner without any need for unrest Industry. We are confident of your positive consideration.

Thanking you,

Yours faithfully,

HARVINDER SINGH GENERAL SECRETARY AINBOF	P.K.SARKAR CONVENOR UFNBOA	R.J.SRIDHARAN GENERAL SECRETARY AIBOA
K.K.NAIR GENERAL SECRETARY INBOC		S.U.DESHPANDE GENERAL SECRETARY NOBO

ALL INDIA BANK OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION

Circular No. 24 :V:2011

November 8, 2011

ALL UNITS / STATE COMMITTEES

Dear Comrades

PROCEEDINGS OF THE 6^TH CENTRAL COMMITTEE MEETING AND

GENERALCOUNCIL MEETING HELD AT JAIPUR

ON 30^TH AND 31^ST OCTOBER 2011.

1. Both Meetings of the Central Committee and General Council were presided over by our President Com Alok Khare. The Meeting had the benefit of the presence of Com Mahesh Mishra from AIBEA.

2. The Meeting, after paying homage to lives lost in natural calamities and for the National Leaders passed away during this period, passed the Minutes of the last CC Meeting unanimously.

3. The General Secretary , outlining the purpose of this Meeting held before the 6^th All India Conference, preferred a small Report on the developments. He informed that IBA has virtually shut the door of negotiations with only a farce meeting with AIBOC focussed by them as Industry level negotiation without any word from UFBU.

4. Noting the stand of UFBU that developments in respect of the Settlement on ‘ one more option ’ as delivered by UFBU, the issue of SBI Pension costing being paid in SBI as ‘ Allowance ’ , is not being pursued for want of consensus. AIBOA, in terms of our CC decisions, already filed a Writ Petition in Madras High Court, demanding extension of 6.5% Basic Pay as Allowance to all Banks

5. Noting the revival of UFNBOA , even though delayed, as a timely step for restoring justice on issues without discriminations, AIBOA has decided to forge ahead in the matter of smashing the stonewalling efforts of SBI Management and their Unions.

6. On the ongoing Programs, welcoming the Joint actions of all Trade Unions , our CC called upon Units to support the Programs of the Central Trade Unions in full spirit. Even though we will not join “ Jail Bharo ” program , all the other demonstrative programs of the Central Trade Unions will be supported by AIBOA.

7. Congratulating the AIBOA membership ford total participation in 5^th August Strike call of UFBU, the Meeting further exhorted our units to implement the calls of UFBU including opposition to Khandelwal Committee Recommendations, which hits the very root of collective bargaining.

8. Reporting on the coordination between AIBEA & AIBOA, the CC was informed that in about 10 Banks, there has been an increase in Membership apart from IDBI, UTI Asset Management Company Officers’ Associations, Uttarbanga Grameen Bank, joining our fold, there is need for more coordination at individual Bank level. Accordingly the Coordination Committee has decided to call meeting of the Representatives of 3 Unions in Bank level during November 2011, to start with.

9. Dismayed at the stand of the Govt to rush through the Banking Law Amendment Bill, Increase in individual shareholder’s voting rights, further relaxing ceiling on shareholdings, Allowing Private Sector Banks in the Industry, Appointment of Business Correspondents, Allowing of usurious money lending by Banks including Public Sector Banks to NGOs in the Agricultural Sector and the blind pursuit of Mergers by the Govt, the Meeting called upon the Govt to review the Credit to Agriculture & policies on NPAs and Interest Rates and decided to run a campaign through AIBOA’s alternate path on Credit to Agriculture and Interest Rates.

10. The Meeting decided to extend delegation to RRB Officers for our conference and resolve to extend full support to their current agitation in terms of the Joint Circular of AIBEA & AIBOA , calling for formation of Sponsor wise Coordination Committee with AIGBOA, the Meeting extended support to the Dharna Program on 15^th November 2011 before the Sponsor Banks and on 20^th November 2011 before Ministry of Finance, Delhi.

11. Discussing the holding of Conference of State Committees before the All India Conference, the Meeting was informed that Tripura State Committee Conference was held on 2^nd Nov 2011, electing Com Kushal Gupta as General Secretary and that the Conference of AP State Committee is scheduled to be held in Hyderabad on 20^th Nov 2011 and that of Rajasthan State Committee on 27^th Nov 2011 among others. The Meeting after hearing reports from other states permitted the holding of their Conferences after our All India Conference with proper preparations andPublicity.

12. The CC taking note of the arrangements of the Reception Committee approved the formation of Reception Committee as per the Report submitted by the host – Tamilnadu State Committee , by Com Gunasekaran and Com M A Srinivasan – and called upon all the Units to work as one-man to ensure success of the Conference.

13. The CC congratulating the ‘ Leadership Program ’ held at Tarak Institute, called upon State Committees to include the Trainees who attended the program in their Delegate List in addition to the normal quota. The CC also decided to permit State Committees to extend additional delegates to RRB and Cooperative Officers. Any request from State Committees for extra observers will be considered by the Steering Committee on specific requests. The CC called upon all the Units and State Committees to enlist souvenir collections immediately as only 30 days are left for the Conference.

14. Calling upon the Units to clear Subscriptions in full to the State Committees and AIBOA Central Office, the Meeting noted that Levy collection has improved by all Units except in Punjab & Sind Bank. As issues of Punjab & Sind Bank will be discussed with that Federation, the CC decided to await the outcome of that Meeting. All Units have been told to reconcile & clear their dues upto 2011 by and before the All India Conference.

15. The CC appointed a Secretariat Committee in charge of Administrative and Publicity works of the Conference with :

Com S Nagarajan ... as Convenor

Com S Lakshminarasimhan , Com A B Shetty, Com Raghava &

Com Dayal Babu ... as Members.

The CC also appointed a Steering Committee with

Com Siddharth N.Dutta ... as Convenor

Com S Nagarajan, Com Gunasekaran , Com K V Nayak and

Com.S.S.Shisodia ... as Members.

to oversee all the arrangements and developments during the Conference and to resolve matters relating to Delegates, Observers, and Units, to ensure and take proper decisions. In both the Committees, the President and General Secretary will be Ex Officio Members.

16. It was reported to the Committee that the Bye-Laws Committee have met once and felt that in terms of working experience the present structure may be retained. However having regard to the central budget of Rs 12 lacs per annum for AIBOA and Tarak Institute , it was suggested to go for a small rise in AIBOA’s subscription. It was also felt by the CC that in respect of big States, the Secretariat/CC of AIBOA should be empowered to appoint Regional Committees in consultation with the State Committees.

17. Unaudited Balance Sheet for the year ended 31.12.2010 and Income Expenditure for the period 01.04.2011 to 30.09.2011 were placed by the Treasurer Com.G.Gunasekaran and after due clarifications by the Treasurer both were adopted unanimously.

18. The General Secretary outlining the achievements of AIBOA in the last Settlement on Active Service theory against leaders retiring on superannuation, called upon our CC to ensure manning of National and State bodies with proper blend of Youth and Experience to build up future Leadership, as there cannot be any bias to either.

19. The CC warmly appreciated the excellent and top class arrangements for the CC made by the leadership of AIBOA & AIBEA - Com Sharma from AIBOA Rajasthan State Committee , Com Mahesh Mishra, General Secretary of Rajasthan State Federation of AIBEA and their entire team including Com Lokesh Mishra (who could not attend the Meeting due to expiry of his Father in Law and serious health condition of his Father).

20. In the General members meeting convened by Rajasthan State Committee, the undersigned and Com Mahesh Mishra addressed 200 and odd Officers and reported various decisions of the CC and the decision of AIBOA & AIBEA to work at individual Bank level for membership mobilisation.

The Central Committee came to a close with our President Com Alok Khare proposing vote of thanks to all volunteers headed by Com N.K.Sharma and Com R B Sharma, General Secretary and President for the excellent arrangements made for the successful conduct of the Central Committee.

With Greetings

/R.J.SRIDHARAN/

GENERAL SECRETARY

ALL INDIA BANK EMPLOYEES' ASSOCIATION

ALL INDIA BANK OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION

CIRCULAR TO ALL UNITS 30-10-2011

Dear Comrades,

£ EXTEND ALL-OUT SUPPORT AND SOLIDARITY TO THE STRUGGLE OF RRB EMPLOYEES & OFFICERS AT THE CALL OF AIGBEA & AIGBOA

£ ALL INDIA STRIKE ON 16^TH DECEMBER, 2011

Our Unions in Regional Rural Banks, at the call of All India Gramin Bank Employees Association and All India Gramin Bank Officers Association are on an agitation and struggle on the following demands:

Charter of Demands

1) Extend PF-Pension and Other allowances parity on par with Sponsor Banks,

2) RRBs to be made Associate members of IBA,

3) Ensure Man-power planning on the basis of number of A/Cs and workload,

4) Fresh recruitment and Promotion policy

5) Regularisation of all daily wages worker,

6) Extend Sponsor Bank’s service Regulation to RRBs,

7) Merger of RRBs with Sponsor Bank in national interest.

AGITATIONAL PROGRAMME

i) 31^st October,2011: Dharna at RO NABARD/RBI at the State Capitals

ii) 15^th November,2011: Dharna at CO/HO of respective Sponsor Bank

iii) 29^th November 2011: Mass Dharna before Ministry of Finance, New Delhi,

preceded with Office bearers camp to mobilize M.Ps.

iv) 1^st Dec.to 15^th Dec.2011: Mass campaign by way of personal meeting with Public

representative/Central Trade Union leaders.

v) 16^th December,2011 ALL INDIA STRIKE IN RRBs

All our State Federations/State Committees and our unions in the concerned sponsor Banks are requested to extend all support and participate in their programmes like Dharna/Demonstrations, etc.

With greetings,

Yours Comradely,

(C.H. Venkatachalam)

General Secretary

A.I.B.E.A.

(R.J. Sridharan)

General Secretary

A.I.B.O.A.

Circular Letter No31:V:2011

November 9, 2011

To:

ALL UNITS / STATE COMMITTEES

Dear Comrades.

6TH CONFERENCE OF AIBOA @ CHENNAI : 7^TH – 9^TH DECEMBER, 2011.

TASKS EXPECTED TO BE ACCOMPLISHED BY UNITS AND STATE COMMITTEES.

COMRADES! Count down has begun and it is only 30 days for the sixth conference of our organization to be held from 7^th December, 2011 to 9^th December, 2011 at Chennai.

We are quite sure the units/state committees would have made arrangements for the onward and return journey for their Delegates & Observers including the women comrades [whose number will be besides the eligible number applicable on the basis of member-ship] for reaching Chennai for the historic conference and return to the concerned places and this information has been sent to the central office of the AIBOA by now.

Now we are advising the Units/state committees to immediately furnish the following details to the Reception Committee which has already been formed as conveyed during the Central Committee meeting held at Jaipur on 30^th October,2011. The Secretary of the Reception Committee has already informed the accommodation facility that are available for the delegates and observers.

T A S K S:

1.The Number of Delegates and Observers that each state committee is sending [ on the basis of their eligibility, of course the women comrades are besides this number]should be informed to the Reception Committee/Steering Committee and the List should be submitted at the earliest.

2. The Units/state committees have to inform their requirements of accommodation and the same has to reach the central office by 15^th instant on receipt of which the reception committee would inform the concerned hotels of the provisional booking [ the payment will have to be made by the delegates/observers on their occupying the hotels arranged to them].

3. The TARGET set by the central office of the AIBOA by the units/state committees towards the conference expenses through Tariff/advertisement collections should be FULFILLED with out exception and with out fail and the REMITTANCE should be sent immediately with out waiting for being handed over during the conference since the resources are very much required at our end here and now and the information provided on this score by the units during the central committee meeting is far from encouraging and hence the units and state committees should move swiftly and with commitment.

4. The NOTICE to the 6^th Conference is dispatched separately and the same should be appropriately circulated amongst the representative units so that the obligation in regard to the convening of the conference is fulfilled by the units/state committees.

5. The POSTER depicting the welcoming of all the delegates and observers to the CHENNAI Conference is being sent separately and the same should be profusely and prominently displayed and dispatched to the important centers and units and in centers where the membership and leadership of units and state committees exist and this should be undertaken with enthusiasm and earnestness.

CERTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATIONS REQUIRED FROM UNITS IMMEDIATELY BY THE CENTRAL OFFICE:

For inclusion in the General Secretary’s Report the following important information are required and every Unit/State Committee has to furnish the same immediately and if the same are not received in time it would defeat the very purpose for which the same is being asked and the report may not be complete in this regard.

Membership details of our organization, others etc., as of 30.09.2011 or 31.10.2011[ applicable to bankwise organizations] .

Date of the last conference of the All India Organisation / State Committee that was held during the relevant period i.e. between February, 2006 and our proposed conference.

Names of the principal functionaries elected in the recent conference.

Important struggles launched at state level in respect of state committees and at all India level in respect of bank wise organizations including direct action[ other than the programmes of AIBEA / AIBOA or UFBU.

Important achievements by the bank wise organizations in the matter of promotion policy, transfer policy and the details of the relevant settlement entered in to by our unit with the management.

We are advising the Units and State Committees to immediately respond to the above requirements required by our central office.

With Greetings,

Yours Comradely,

[R.J.SRIDHARAN]

GENERAL SECRETARY

Circular Letter No.27:V:2011

October 10, 2011

To:

ALL UNITS / STATE COMMITTEES

Comrades,

MORE FEATHERS TO OUR STATE COMMITTEES

We are happy to inform our Units and State Committees, the glad tidings of formation two State Units of our affiliates.

Indian Bank Offices in Bihar have formed the Bihar Unit of the Indian Bank Officers’ Federation at Patna on 28.08.2011 with Com.Narendra Kumar as its General Secretary.

Like wise Union Bank comrades in Karnataka have formed the Karnataka Unit of All India Union Bank Officer Staff Association on 25.09.2011 with Com.Ranjit Kumar Das as the General Secretary.

While wishing the new Units all glory and success, we advise our State Committees of Bihar and Karnataka to extend all the encouragement and support to the new born units.

With greetings,

/R.J.SRIDHARAN/

GENERAL SECRETARY

Circular Letter No.26:V:2011

September 22, 2011

To:

ALL UNITS / STATE COMMITTEES

Comrades,

AGITATION PROGRAMMES IN

GRAMEEN BANKS

In the joint CC meeting of the AIGBEA-AIGBOA held at Kolkata recently a clarion call has been given to launch a countrywide campaign and struggle on various demands.

We have time and again been emphasizing on the need of safeguarding the interest of the RRBs and their employees. Our demand for merging the RRBs with the sponsoring Banks is a long pending one.

Added to the present woes of the RRBs, the Govt., is taking all steps to make them victims of its reforms agenda. Recently the Deputy Governor of RBI has indicated that for the survival of RRBs, they should opt for roping in any financial institution or go to the capital market.

Further the RRB Unions are insisting on PF and Pension parity on par with the sponsoring Banks, Associate membership of the IBA, proper manpower planning and adequate recruitment etc.

The agitation programmes start on 02.10.2011 with the publicity campaigns and culminating with a Strike action on 16.12.2011.

In solidarity with the RRB employees, we extend all our support to their struggle programmes and our moral and solidarity support to their strike action.

We reproduce the Joint circular issued by our twin organizations in RRBs for the information of our Units / State Committees.

With greetings

/R.J.SRIDHARAN/

GENERAL SECRETARY

TEXT OF AIGBEA-AIGBOA CIRCULAR NO. 2011/GS/15 dated 12.09.2011

Re: AIGBEA-AIGBOA CC CLARION CALL- TO LAUNCH COUNTRYWIDE CAMPAIGN & STRUGGLE FOR PF-PENSION & SERVICE REGULATION PARITY. TO SAVE JOB & JOB SECURITY- TOGET REAL INTEGRATION WITH SPONSOR BANK.

Dear Comrades,

Banking industry of our country in general and RRBs are in particular standing on a turning point. By way of disinvestment of public sector banks, inviting FDI and amending Banking Regulation act to increase the voting right of share holders a privatization move has been lunched by the Government of India under IMF/Word Bank prescription. RRBs are also not spared. A panel constituted by RBI which was Chaired by Shri KC Chakraborti, Deputy Governor, RBI , opined that the GOI would allow corporate sector or even the public to pick up the stakes of the RRB. It has also been told “ roping in any other financial institution or tapping the capital market is the only option left for RRBs if they need to become viable in the competitive field.” Panel also suggested that profit earning RRBs should be allowed to list on the stock exchanges. In this way RRBs are also at the verge of privatization and capital houses are keen to exploit the rural resources. Public sector character of the RRBs are at stake.

In spite of apex court order real pay parity has yet not been maintained, other allowances and other benefits have not been extended in line sponsor banks. All other organizations operating in RRBs are misguiding and misreporting to the general members with a view to dilute our movement. Real picture of pension fate has not been displayed. Legal recourse seems to be not sufficient, sustained and united struggle is most required.GOI has already clarified that budgetary support would not be given for pension corpus to RRBs as it was not contributed to Commercial bank too . For modality NABARD has been asked but there is complete paucity of pension corpus as RRBs are suffering from PF ceiling to the extent of maximum RS.780/- So, pension parity is very difficult to achieve particularly in a situation new pension scheme has been introduced in Commercial bank too wef. 01.4.2010. In view of above more sacrifice and struggle is most required to achieve price Index linked Pension Scheme.

In absence of apex level negotiating Forum the settlement held at apex level by Sponsoring bank and Unions are not extended mutatis mutandis. JCC is not solution of apex level negotiating Forum as it has no decision making capacity. RC Gupta Working Group (1992)had recommended GoI that RRBs should be made Associate Members of IBA but it was not considered by GoI under pressure of certain Organisation working in RRB otherwise 1993 pension settlement or subsequent Bipartite settlements would have been implemented without any omission and Commission.

In view of present work load and services to be rendered to more A/C holders Man power planning/ Promotion & recruitment in terms Thorat Committee recommendation is inadequate. CBS is going on in haphazard way and told to be completed by 30^th Sept.2011 has caused unprecedented pressure over insufficient workforce. Rather to regularize the daily wages worker management is interested to recruit fresh sub-staff through employment exchange. It is quite unjustified move.

Further, without extending Sponsor Bank’s service Regulation Single window system has been implemented by most of the RRBs overnight. It has caused harassment to workmen staff particularly in a situation having no infrastructure in line with Sponsor bank. It is completely unfair labour practice affecting customer interest too..

In view of above and after a thread bare discussion in our CC meeting held in Kolkata on 11^th & 12th September,2011 gave a clarion call to launch countrywide sustained campaign and agitation wef 2^nd Oct,2011 as follows:

Charter of Demands

1) Extend PF-Pension and Other allowances parity on par with Sponsor Banks,

2) RRBs to be made Associate members of IBA,

3) Ensure Man-power planning on the basis of number of A/Cs and workload,

4) Fresh recruitment and Promotion policy

5) Regularization of all daily wages worker,

6) Extend Sponsor Bank’s service Regulation to RRBs,

7) Merger of RRBs with Sponsor Bank in national interest.

AGITATIONAL PROGRAMME

i) 2^nd Oct. to 13^th Oct.2011: Publicity of demands by way of postering and press meet,

ii) 14^th October,2011 Demonstration/Rally before respective HO of RRB,

iii) 31^st October,2011: Dharna at RO NABARD/RBI at the state Capital,

iv) 15^th November,2011: Dharna at CO/HO of respective Sponsor Bank,

v) 29^th November 2011: Mass Dharna before Ministry of Finance, New Delhi,

preceded with Office bearers camp to mobilize M.Ps.

vi) 1^st Dec.to 15^th Dec.2011: Mass campaign by way of personal meeting

with Public representative/Central Trade

Union leaders.

vii) 16^th December,2011 S T R I K E

With greetings

Comradely yours

/sd./G.G.Gandhi /sd./D.N.Trivedi

General Secretary General Secretary

AIGBEA AIGBOA

Circular Letter No. 25:V:2011

September 21, 2011

To:

ALL UNITS / STATE COMMITTEES

Comrades,

CC MEETING OF AIGBEA-AIGBOA

HELD AT KOLKATA – 11^th -12^th SEPTEMBER, 2011

Recently concluded joint Central Committee of AIGBEA and AIGBOA has taken certain important decisions in the matter of further building up the two organizations in the Grameena Banks.

The CC was addressed by Com.S.N.Dutta, Secretary, AIBOA amongst others.

We reproduce the joint circular issued by the organization. We exhort our units and State Committees to keep the membership informed of the decisions of the meeting and to mobilize more officers from RRBs into our fold.

With greetings,

/R.J.SRIDHARAN/

GENERAL SECRETARY

TEXT OF AIGBEA – AIGBOA CIRCULR letter No.2011/GS/16 DATED 13.09.2011

AIGBEA-AIGBOA KOLKATA CC UNANIMOUSLY RESOLVED TO FORM UNIT

IN EACH AND EVERY RRB

WITHIN NEXT THREE MONTHS AND CALLED UPON

PARENT ORGANIZATION AIBEA-AIBOA

TO EXTEND ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT..

Dear Comrade,

Historic joint Central Committee Meeting of AIGBEA –AIGBOA held in Kolkata on 11^th and 12^thSeptember, 2011, was presided over by Com.B.K.Mishra, Working President, AIGBEA and Com. Nagrajan, President, AIGBOA, jointly. On this occasion Com.CH. Venkatachalam, General Secretary ,AIBEA and Com. S.N.Datta, Secretary, AIBOA, participated as Chief Guest and our Guide.

At the out set Com. Dhishankar Pal, General Secretary of Bengal Provincial Gramin Bank Employees Association and Secretary, AIGBEA, welcome all the CC members and dignitaries present on the occasion. Thereafter Com. D.N.Trivedi, General Secretary, AIGBOA, placed the present position of the banking industry in general and RRBs in particular. He also informed the house regarding retrograde step taken by GoI to privatize the RRB and to deunionise its staff members. Subsequently, Com.GG Gandhi, GS,AIGBEA, supplemented him.

Thereafter, Com. CHV, explained the rationale of 5^th August Strike and congratulated the membership of AIGBEA-OA for their active participation. In his profound speech he categorically explained the Government policies under prescription of World Bank and IMF to privatize the public sector banks. As achievement of 5^th August Strike Com.CHV apprized the house that Banking Regulation amendment bill was tabled in the Monsoon session of the parliament but could not be passed. He categorically detailed the different issues of the Strike which were not only affecting PSB but also detrimental to the interest of RRB and its staff. If Sponsor banks would be privatized, RRBs would not be spared as Sponsor banks are share holders of RRBs. He further submitted, “it may be outsourcing, Compassionate appointment or revival of BSRB and adequate recruitment issues etc equally important for RRBs too”. He told, however, specific demand of Pension parity to RRB has been included in Charter of demands, but it was most unfortunate that a few organizations in RRBs did not observe the Strike.

Com. CHV also apprised the house that UFBU has take a decision to go on further direct action in the month of November,2011 and called upon our CC for active participation of members of AIGBEA-AIGBOA. He appreciated the functioning of AIGBEA-AIGBOA and assured for all type of organizational co-operation to strengthen. He assured the house that within two months Sponsor bank-wise General Secretaries meeting would be organized with principal office bearers of AIGBEA & AIGBOA and subsequently state level Co-ordination would also be ensured to strengthen AIGBEA-AIGBOA. CC members appreciated the assurances with clapping and greeted him with roaring slogan of AIBEA-AIBOA-Zindabad.

After Com.CHV. Com. Sidharth Datta, Secretary, AIBOA, addressed the house and informed that in UttarBanga Kshetriya Gramin Bank majority of the membership has joined AIGBOA/AIGBOA from AIBOC under leadership of Com.Kantimay Datta and recently a number of Comrades have joined our organization in Kalinga Gramya Bank Orissa in the leadership of Com.SN Mahopatra from AIBOC. Now, the double face of AIBOC has been visualizing and in RRB too officers have started joining us from AIBOC in larger interest of Officers community. Com. Datta also assured that a separate agenda/resolution would be moved in next CC meeting of AIBOA with a view to extend all out support to AIGBEA-AIGBOA. Subsequently Com. Nagrajan, President addressed the house and welcome Com. S.Mahopatra, GS of Kalinga Gramin Bank Officers Association for joining AIGBOA. He categorically explained that the twin organization AIBEA & AIBOA is unique organization in the financial sector championing the cause of Workmen and Officers jointly. He also appreciated the joint functioning of AIGBEA-AIGBOA.

After his presidential address presidium took the regular agenda for discussion and deliberation. Firstly, General secretary placed the present position of Pension demands and position of our writ petition filed before Delhi high court against Delhi CGIT Award on Service Regulation . While introducing the agenda he stated that after amalgamation of RRBs and introduction of CBS our bank is standing on cross road. Virtually, on paper health of the institution has been shown good but reality is quite different rather volatile and critical. NPA position is alarming and pseudo-profit publicity is unfortunate. Balance sheet is being engineered and chartered accountant is managed to put the big seal for approval of Hon’ble Board of Directors. Further, time to time GOI pleased to announce injection of fund for capital restructuring of weak RRB. In the mean while Central Government, State Government, RBI and NABARD pressurizing over RRB’s staff to work as NGO for achieving target under financial inclusion, opening Indira Awas/ NAREGA / No frill a/cs , organizing kisan club / SHG and all other sorts of social works like PMREGP. Manpower planning has not been made on the basis of per employee/ per branch accounts resulting into over pressure against staff members whose average age is 50 plus. But, no organization in RRB is thinking for adequate and judicious structural restructuring.

So far as parity of Service Regulation and payment of terminal benefits, other allowances and other benefits at par with Sponsor bank are concerned all other organization are not serious about it rather engaged in floating rumors. Someone is giving pension as Deepawali gift , someone as new year gift and at the time of UFBU Strike on 5^th August two organizations withdrew their strike unilaterally under pretext that GOI was going to give Pension within next two months. Real picture of pension issue has not been placed. Though Karnatka High Court had given Judgment in favour but ultimate onus was lying with GoI who emphatically denies any budgetary provision to extend pension parity to RRB. GoI is principally agreed and meetings are being held but NABARD is given responsibility to frame modality and information has been sought from RRBs as to how much balance of PF amount was lying as on 31^st March 2011. Chairman of NABARD, who is also Chairman of JCC, has completely failed to run JCC judiciously and effectively; how NABARD will be effective to formulate an agreeable modality is under sign of interrogation as neither employees nor GoI is bounded to accept the proposal of an institution having no judicial locus standee. Direct dialogue with trade Unions of RRBs would only pave the way of immediate solution.

After a thread bare discussion a Common Charter of demand and agitational programme were decided unanimously.(Circular issued)

At the end of first day CC Meeting, Com.CH.Venkatachalam, informed the house that GoI, Ministry of Finance vide their notification F.No.7/6/2011-RRB dated 8^th September,2011, directed CEOs of all Sponsor banks/RRBs to initiate the integration process in a time bound manner, particularly Banking operation/transaction/ATM so that CBS of both the institution would be integrated by 31^st Dec.2011. He also informed that in semi-urban and rural area branch of RRB & Sponsor Bank existing at a same locality must be reallocated on the basis of last come first go basis.

Com.CHV apprised the house that RRBs are told to adopt HR process as in the respective Sp’bank and Sponsor bank would take RRBs employees on deputation to the extent of number of their employees deputed to RRB.

In a concluding remark Com.CHV emphatically submitted that Merger of RRB with respective sponsor bank is only solution of all the tribulations being faced by RRB and its staff members .At the same time it is in national interest and most required for integrated rural development as well as avowed financial inclusion. He also assured the house for all out support of AIBEA to our agitation for achieving the demands and with this assurance meeting was concluded amidst roaring slogan of Com.CHV KO LAL SALAM. AIBEA-AIBOA-ZINDABAD.

On next day, Organisation Agenda was taken up and after full day discussion and deliberation CC prescribed following steps to strengthen organization:

1) Draft Copy of the poster of demands and agitation will be sent by Central office and it must be printed in regional language by State Federation/Base Units to be sent to all RRBs in the state,

2) In charge of the state must ensure that poster reaches to all the RRBs of respective states,

3) Central office will write a letter to state level organization as well as All India Sponsor bankwise leadership of AIBEA & AIBOA for their co-operation,

4) Cost of travelling of the Organizational sub-committee will be born by the Central office,

5) There will be a common a/c and fund of the co-ordination Committee of AIGBEA-AIGBOA to be operated Jointly by GS,AIGBEA-AIGBOA,

6) There must be a Co-ordination committee within next three months with all India Organisation and state body of AIBEA,

7) Due conferences of the states/Units must be held within three months,

8) Each and every unit where we are in majority will form a Committee of militant and dynamic members for formation of new unit,

9) Before 30^th of Nov. each and every base unit will organize mass meeting to educate the members for their active involvement .

10) Each base unit will form a sub-committee of 4 to 5 members at their level to strengthen weak unit of the adjoining region.

Confirmation of previous proceeding:

Decisions taken by Office bears in the last meeting held in Delhi on 21^st February 2011 was placed before the house and confirmed unanimously.

F U N D

General secretary placed the fund position before the house and it was unanimously resolved that in terms of decision of Delhi meeting State/base unit would ensure remittance of fund to Central office within next two months latest by 30^th Nov.2011.

Any other matter

House was informed by Com.B.K.Mishra ,GS,UPGBSA and our Working President that Officers unit in Shreyas Gramin Bank has achieved the majority and it has been recognized by the management recently. He wished that GS of Shreyas Gramin Bank should be given place in CC of AIGBOA. On this count ,General Secretary opined that the proposal should have been come from Officers Federation of the state but since UP state Officers Federation has yet not been formed it was proposed to nominate Com. Sudhir Saxena, GS. of the unit as CC Members of AIGBOA. CC passed the proposal.

With greetings

Comradely yours

(G.G.Gandhi) (D.N.Trivedi)

General Secretary General Secretary

AIGBEA AIGBOA

Circular Letter No.24:V:2011

September 21, 2011

To:

ALL UNITS / STATE COMMITTEES

Comrades,

REVISED GOVT. GUIDELINES ON FESTIVAL ADVANCE

We reproduce the circular issued by the UFBU, informing the revised guidelines issued by the IBA in the matter of Festival Advance guidelines of the IBA is also reproduced.

Units are instructed to ensure that the revised guidelines are implemented and wherever the schemes are better as already revised in individual Banks it should be ensured that the same level is continued with.

With Greetings,

/R.J.SRIDHARAN/

GENERAL SECRETARY

TEXT OF UFBU CIRCULAR NO. UFBU/2011/18 DATED 16^thSeptember, 2011

Dear Comrades,

Revised Govt. Guidelines on Festival Advance

Units are aware that we had taken up the issue of issuing revised uniform Government Guidelines to the Banks on Festival Advance to the bank employees. Now the Government has issued the revised guidelines based on which the Indian Banks Association has issued their circular to the Banks.

These revised Guidelines on Festival Advance are effective from 9-9-2011.

Officers

One month’s Basic Pay

Max. Rs. 25,000/-

Clerks

One month’s Basic Pay

Min. Rs. 8,000/-

Max. Rs. 20,000/-

Sub-staff

One month’s Basic Pay

Min. Rs. 6,000/-

Max. Rs. 15,000/-

Already in some of the Banks, the limits were revised at the Bank-level. Wherever the existing scheme is better, the same would continue. But in many Banks, the old limits are being implemented. Units are requested to take note of the revised Guidelines and take up the matter with their managements accordingly.

With greetings,

Yours Comradely,

C.H. VENKATACHALAM

CONVENER

Encl: IBA Circular

TEXT OF IBA -HR & INDUSTRIAL RELATIONSNo.CIR/HR&IR/76/624C/2011-12/4000 DATED 09.09.2011

Dear Sirs,

Festival Advance to employees of Public Sector Banks

Please refer to our circular letter No.PD/CIR/76/624C/653 dated 14^th October 2003.

In terms of the extant guidelines, festival advance is restricted to one month’s emoluments, subject to a maximum of `10,000/- for Officers, `8,000/- for Clerical staff and `6,000/- for subordinate staff.

We had recommended to Government for enhancing the abovementioned limits of festival advance. We have since received a communication from the Government enhancing the limits as under with effect from the date of this circular, i.e. September 9, 2011.

Officers

One month’s Basic Pay

Max. ` 25,000/-

Clerks

One month’s Basic Pay

Min. ` 8,000/-

Max. `20,000/-

Sub-staff

One month’s Basic Pay

Min. `6,000/-

Max. `15,000/-

All other terms and conditions conveyed vide Government letter F.No.14/15/84-IR dated 6^th December 1990 shall continue to hold good.

You may please take note of the above communication from the Government for necessary action.

Yours faithfully,

K Unnikrishnan

Dy. Chief Executive

Circular Letter No.23:V:2011

September 12, 2011

To:

ALL UNITS / STATE COMMITTEES

Comrades,

ENTRY OF NEW PRIVATE SECTOR BANKS

Comrades are aware that RBI has released Draft guidelines for licensing New Banks in the private sector on 29.08.2011.

The guidelines envisages floating of New Banks by corporate sectors with an initial paid up capital of 500 crores. The guidelines gives a concession that the corporate who initially invest 40% of the paid up capital, ie; 200 crores would be allowed to float the banks instantly.

We have been time and again reiterating our position against opening up the Banking sector, to the private industrial houses. Such a opening will lead to peoples wealth landing in the hands of the corporate giants, which will ultimately erode the public sector concept in the Banking sector, that we have been trying to preserve all along and to build up..

AIBOA is totally against such steps of opening up the Banking sector, further to private hands, instead of strengthening the Public Sector Banks especially in the context of performance of new generation Banks and their failure even in our mixed economy.

We will take all steps and action against the ill advised move of the Govt., and RBI.

With greetings,

/R.J.SRIDHARAN/

GENERAL SECRETARY

Circular Letter No.22:V:2011

September 12, 2011

To:

ALL UNITS / STATE COMMITTEES

Comrades,

ALL INDIA PROTEST ACTIONS ON 8^TH NOVEMBER, 2011

CALL BY NATIONAL CONVENTION OF WORKERS

A National convention of workers organized by the Central Trade Unions was held on 07.09.2011 in New Delhi. All major trade unions in the country along with the other trade unions from various industries attended the meeting including UFBU.

The meeting took note of the rising trend of oppressive policies of the Government against the Aam Admi, coupled with abnormal price increase of essential items and galloping inflation.

Taking into account the security of the working class, the convention has decided to have a All India Protest action on 8^th November, 2011 and further prepare for an All India General Strike.

In reproducing the declaration of the Convention, we exhort our Units and State Committees, to alert the members for extending support and solidarity to the programmes and make the 08.11.2011 action in a grand success.

With greetings,

/R.J.SRIDHARAN/

GENERAL SECRETARY

NATIONAL CONVENTION OF WORKERS

7^th September 2011 Mavalanker Hall New Delhi

DECLARATION

The National Convention of Workers being held on 7^th September 2011 at Mavalanker Hall, New Delhi noted with serious concern that despite several rounds of all in united protests by the entire trade union movement of the country, the Government has remained totally unresponsive to major concerns of the working people.

Practically no step has been taken by the Government to address the basic demands of the workers being pressed through joint memorandum by the Central Trade Unions to honourable Prime Minister and the Lok Sabha Speaker and various other joint countrywide programmes.

Rather, aggressive moves are being taken to further aggravate the rise in prices through frequent hike in prices of Petrol, Diesel, LPG and Kerosene. Disinvestment of shares of Public Sector Units is being actively pushed through by the Government to facilitate phased privatization of the highly profit-making PSUs. Existing labour rights including right to form union and to social security and pension are being sought to be curbed through various legislative and administrative moves. Mass scale contractorisation of the regular work is continuing in all the workplaces including in PSUs and Government establishments. Contract workers are not being paid in most of the places even the statutory minimum wages which is very low to meet the basic requirements for a human living.

The National Convention also expresses its serious concern over the flaring up of rampant corruption all around and huge black-money-generation in the economy and seeks to draw the attention of the Government to the widespread popular discontent and disgust over the issue of corruption demanding concrete legislative and administrative measures and change in the economic policy regime to eradicate and prevent corruption and bring back the black money stashed abroad.

The National Convention calls upon the working people of the country to further widen the unity achieved through united struggle and launch united protest against the unresponsive approach of the Government through intensified countrywide struggles.

While reiterating the five point demands formulated jointly by the Central Trade Unions and Federations for

1) Concrete measures to contain price rise

2) 2] Concrete measures for linkage of employment protection with the concession/incentive package offered to the entrepreneurs,

3) 3] Strict enforcement of all basic labour laws without any exception or exemption and stringent punitive measures for violation of labour laws,

4) 4] Universal social security cover for the unorganized sector workers without any restriction and creation of a National Social Security Fund with adequate resources in line with the recommendation of NCEUS and Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour and

5) Stoppage of disinvestment in central and state PSUs,

the National Convention of Workers also demands immediate action by the Government of India to ensure:-

· No Contractorisation of work of permanent / perennial nature and till then payment of wages and benefits to the contract workers at the same rate as available to the regular workers of the industry/establishment
· Amendment of Minimum Wages Act to ensure universal coverage irrespective of the schedules and fixation of statutory minimum wage at not less than Rs.10,000/- per month with indexation
· Remove all ceilings of payment and eligibility of Bonus, Provident Fund; Increase the quantum of gratuity
· Assured Pension for all
· Compulsory registration of trade unions within a period of 45 days and immediate ratification of the ILO Conventions nos 87 and 98

To press the above demands and to prepare for higher level of united action, the National Convention decides to hold Countrywide multiple forms of action such as SATYAGRAHA/JAIL BHARO, MASS SQUATTING etc. in all the state capitals and industrial centres on 8^th NOVEMBER 2011.

The National Convention also calls upon all the trade unions and workers and employees in general irrespective of affiliations to hold statewise and industrywise conventions to make the above programme a total success and prepare for countrywide GENERAL STRIKE as early possible in the next phase.

BMS INTUC AITUC HMS CITU

AIUTUC AICCTU UTUC TUCC LPF SEWA

Circular No.23:V:2011

August 29, 2011

To:

ALL UNITS / STATE COMMITTEES

Comrades,

UFBU PLATFORM IS ABUSED

It has been observed in the last two meetings of UFBU at Delhi on 20.05.2011 and Bangalore on 10.08.2011 AIBOC representatives has used the UFBU platform to abuse AIBOA using derisive language accusing AIBOA and threatening action from IBA.

It is rather unfortunate that a Trade Union organization has become the mouthpiece of management threatening us distorting facts in the matter.

It is all the more shocking and unfortunate that UFBU forum is allowed to denigrate AIBOA and such verbal umbrages are allowed by the UFBU without any restraint on AIBOC.

While AIBOA as an organization which fought for pension scheme in Banks staying away from talks with IBA for about 2 years, is fully aware of the consequence of our action, it does not lie in the mouth of AIBOC using UFBU platform to blackmail us with threats. As we understand the panic of AIBOC-SBI on our challenging the payment of allowance, we also appreciate the dilemma on account of judgement that will entail additional cost on Banks. AIBOC wants to save management cost?

Our plaint in the court and our submissions clearly reveal that what is prayed is the extension of allowance to all Banks as one in SBI and not any challenge of the settlement by IBA. The introduction of the clause on Govt., concurrence and payment by allowance after nearly 1 year of implementation of the settlment in other Banks clearly lays bare the role of all the players in the settlement to give extra money in SBI after settling the dust and storm against SBI pension issue where as in the case of one more option extended on request by unions where there cannot be any compensation and that is why unions agreed to pay the amount for improvements of pension in SBI finding solution to the issue

AIBOC SBI’s panic driven attacks against us is understandable since the case is further strengthened by the observation of Institute of Chartered Accountant of India against huge provisions for pension fund in SBI dipping into their reserves to the extent of 9700 crores and current year provisioning to the extent of 1973 crores in the Balance sheet. It is a simple question that when pension fund requires so much funding why SBI management paid the “earmarked amount” for allowance instead of crediting to Pension fund.

Instead of appreciating the demand of AIBOA to extend the allowance to all the Banks to uphold the Bipartite settlement, AIBOC has embarked on its negative role of threatening AIBOA in respect of bargaining counter which is not in any way undermined by our plaint before the court.

UFBU platform has been polluted with Anti-AIBOA venom by SBI representative and it is unfortunate that the meeting instead of discussing pending issue has downgraded itself to accuse us even though UFBU had given the choice to individual unions to pursue the issues.

We call upon our members to ignore the panic signal of AIBOC in the matter and explain our principled stand to all members of Banking fraternity.

With greetings,

/R.J.SRIDHARAN/

GENERAL SECRETARY

Encl: Plaint copy excerpts & ICAI objection.

Plaint Copy Excerpts:

It is respectfully submitted that the State Bank of India Management in concurrence with the Central Government have caused increase in the wages for the employees of State Bank of India behind the back of all other Bank Employees in the country. Thus the total pay packet identical and similar pursuant to the Joint Note/Settlement of 27.4.2010 with effect from 1.11.2007 is disturbed. Further wherever differences existed earlier to 1.11.2007 is now being widened. Bipartite Settlement out of direct negotiations are for the purpose of creating and ensuring Peace and Harmony in the industry but not to create difference among the employees or widen the difference.

Therefore it is fair and proper that all the Bank Employees in the Country should also be paid the same additional payment at 6.5 % of the basic pay for Officers and 6.4% of basic pay for Award Staff, as being paid to those in State Bank of India.

Hence left with no alternative the Petitioner Association is constrained to invoke the Writ Jurisdiction under Article 226 of Constitution of India for directing the Respondent Banks to pay to their employees at 6.5% of basic pay for Officers and 6.4% of basic pay for Award Staff in the form of an Allowance every month.

In the circumstances above stated it is respectfully prayed that this Hon’ble Court may be pleased to issue a Writ of Mandamus or any other writ or order or orders of like or any other nature directing the third to twenty-second Respondents to pay their officer employees every month at 6.5 % of their basic pay as additional allowance not in the nature of Special Allowance bearing Dearness Allowance with retrospective effect from 1.11.2007 and render justice.

In the circumstances above state it is humbly state that this Hon’ble Court may be pleased to issue an Order of Direction directing the third Respondent to twenty-second Respondent[PSBs] to pay their officer employees an additional allowance not in the nature of Special Allowance bearing Dearness Allowance at 6.5% of their basic pay effective from date, pending disposal of the Main Petition and render justice.

SBI irked by ICAI publicly questioning provisioning [Livemint-Aug, 18, 2011]

ICAI wants reasons for higher provisioning in Jan-Mar quarter; bank, experts say it cannot pose such questions - Dinesh Unnikrishnan

Mumbai: India’s largest lender and the national chartered accountants’ body are at loggerheads. At the heart of the issue is a sudden rise in State Bank of India’s (SBI) provisions requirement.

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (Icai) wants to know the reasons behind this, but state-run SBI said the institute cannot raise such questions; it can only ask the auditors who are its members.

Raising concern: ICAI president G.Ramaswamy raised the issue of SBI’s provisioning at a public function even before writing to the bank.

In the January-March quarter, SBI had set aside Rs6,059 crore as provisions towards pension liabilities. This was 82% higher than what the bank had provided for in the year-ago quarter. In the preceding quarter, too, the provision had been smaller—Rs2,051 crore.

ICAI wrote to SBI in June, wanting to know the reasons for such a sharp rise.

“We have responded to the body. We also want to know why ICAI has gone to the press (making the issue public),” said an SBI official who did not want to be named.

ICAI president G. Ramaswamy had raised the issue at a public function even before writing to the bank.

The accounting body “decided to send a letter to SBI to enquire about the reasons which led to an increase in provisions,” PTI had reported in June, citing Ramaswamy.

The ICAI president was also reported as saying it planned to write to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and capital market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India on the matter.

“If they feel that something is wrong with the bank’s auditing, Icai should ask their own members,” the SBI official said.

High provisions led to a 99% drop in SBI’s net profit to Rs20.88 crore for the quarter ended 31 March from Rs1,866.6 crore in the year earlier.

According to the official, “there is nothing wrong” with SBI’s accounting practices and the provisions in the March quarter were largely on account of the pension liabilities.

“They (ICAI) have no authority to question us,” said a second SBI official.

ICAI’s mandate doesn’t allow it seek an explanation from the bank, and its powers are limited to members who audit the balance sheet, according to some experts.

“The body is not empowered to seek explanation from a bank, but can surely do that to their members. At the same time, banks are answerable to the public and the regulator as they are dealing with public money,” said the chief financial officer of a Mumbai-based private sector bank. He declined to be named.

ICAI did not immediately respond to an email seeking a response on the matter.

Banks are fully in compliance with guidelines on financial numbers, said Bhasker Sen, chairman and managing director of United Bank of India. “RBI guidelines are very clear on accounting, classifying of assets, and provisioning. We fully go by that. Icai can set guidelines for auditors. That is an issue between the accounting body and its members,” Sen said.

Incidentally, the banking regulator has expressed concerns over the trend of banks reporting a drop in profit after a change at the top. In late June, RBI deputy governor K.C. Chakrabarty said banks’ profit figures should not fluctuate too much with shifts in personnel.

“If a bank gets a new chairman and then its financial numbers undergo great volatility, there is a problem. We must ensure that it does not happen time and again, because at the end of the day, it is very important to maintain the quality of our banks,” Chakrabarty said.

According to him, such variations can create doubts in the minds of the people and there needs to be consistency, which otherwise raise concern.

SBI’s profit dropped 99% in the March quarter, shortly after Pratip Chadhuri took charge as chairman from O.P. Bhatt.

In the June quarter, SBI’s provisions rose 168% to Rs4,157 crore. It has set aside Rs2,782 crore to provide for bad assets.

Circular No.22:V:2011

August 25, 2011

To:

ALL UNITS / STATE COMMITTEES

Comrades,

AIBOA SALUTES ANNA FOR HIS FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION.

Anna Hazare's fast has entered the tenth day. His resolute fight against corruption in all walks of life causing concern to ordinary citizen of this country evoking all round response irrespective of the age. Scores of people cutting across all walks of life pouring in the Ramlila grounds speaks for the internsic strength of the demand raised by team Anna and also the participation by common people of the country side confirm the agony that an individual pass through.

Corruption free India will enhance the growth of the nation allround. As on date, even with the present situation the GDP growth rate is hovering round 8% to 9%. While it is expected of the government to smoothen the process of introduction of the Lokpal after 64 years of independence, the dilly dallying tactics of the negotiators in the name of norms and forms are not going to be accepted by the people. The government taking the shelter that there is no consensus amongst the political parties is also not convincing.

AIBOA, an organization with firm conviction on value based approach in furthering the common cause in the banking fraternity, salutes the team India and also Shri Annaji in achieving the set goal and sees a definite prospect of cleaner, cheaper more efficient banking to millions of those engaged in production and the common people who are getting more access to Banking on account of Nationalisation.

We hope that the spirit of Gandhian struggle which is unique only to India is being revived by Anna Hazare to embrace millions of youth of our country to build India on corrupt free and our own model of Development to serve the poor and deserving people of our country.

We hope that the writing on the wall is seen by all powers that be to end the stalemate, save the precious life of our Gandhian Hazare and expeditiously adopt “CORRUPTION HATTO” legislation.

ANNA LAL SALAM LAL SALAM.

With Greetings,

/R.J.SRIDHARAN/

GENERAL SECRETARY

ALL INDIA UTI [ AMC] OFFICERS ASSOCIATION DEFERED THE STRIKE CALL

IN RESPONSE TO THE APPEAL MADE BY THE DY.C.L.C.(CENTRAL).

THE CONCILIATION IS SLATED TO TAKE PLACE ON 08.09.2011.

Circular No.20:V:2011

August 9, 2011

To:

ALLUNITS / STATE COMMITTEES

Comrades,

Ø Regulated working hours for Bank Officers Brooks no delay

Ø Perpetuation of discrimination and disparity between SBI officers and Nationalized Banks’ Officers

Pursuant to our Silver Jubilee Year Conference at New Delhi in February 2006 deciding to launch organizational action in pursuit of our demand for a regulated / defined working hours for officers, the Central Committee meeting held at Bhopal gave the programmes of action which was observed by our members.

Since in the Bangalore CC meeting it was decided to broad base the agitation with INBOC also expressing its willingness to join the struggle, common programmes were being worked out.

As decided by the Central Committee meeting held at Mahabalipuram during April 19^th & 20^th , 2011 the office bearers have formulated the programmes of agitation to be observed by our members throughout the country.

When the Nationalized Banks’ officers were already smarting under the discriminatory nature in their important economic dispensation since such disparity has been perpetuated since 1979 [when PCR was implemented for us in July 1979 and for SBI officers from October 1979 when huge DA tranche was made available to them in August 1979] and further accentuated in the one time 120 cores special package for SBI officers during the Pension settlement for us in 1993, now further insults have been heaped when in the name of SBI Pension balancing, in service officers are given 130 crores in gross violation and sanctity of the industry level MOU signed on 27.11.2009 and Joint Note signed on 27.04.2010, as per which it should be appropriated towards shortfall in Pension fund.

Comrades! As both these issues have been highlighted , taken up byour orgnaistion with allthe authorities concerend and yet no resolution is insight it has been decided to immediately involve our members in the organisational programmes as under –

v Submission of Memorandum by Members

This programme has to be carried out by all Units through Mass memorandum by members to be carried out during the period 20.08.2011 – 30.09.2011.

v Deputation by Regional/Circle/State/Zonal/All India Leaders

The delegation of the leaders to meet at Regional/Circle/State/Zonal and All India heads when memorandum will be submitted to them -

[This progamme to be carried out during October 2011- November 2011.

Comrades! It is AIBOA which pioneered the championing of the issue of demand for a regulated working hours for officers, struggle and also brought this issue to sharp and central focus much before others came into the pictures. Similarly the issue of parity between SBI and Non-SBI officers eluding solution for 30 years and now further precipitated with SBI pension balancing cost, has also been taken up by us only it is but fair non SBI offices are also extended this special package.

Hence it is our paramount duty to pursue these issues to logical conclusion. If only the language of struggle can be understood by the authorities let us not lag behind or prevaricate or hesitate to commence early our struggle.

The 6^th Conference of our Organization, which will be meeting at Chennai from 7^th-9^th December 2011 shall decide further course of action including intensification of the struggles and if necessary direct action.

Implement the call with all earnestness these two issues deserve. Your conviction and commitment will deliver the desired result.

With greetings,

/R.J.SRIDHARAN/

GENERAL SECRETARY

Encl: Memorandums

MEMORANDUM

[Specimen]

[To be submitted by Officers]

Place:

Date:

To:

The Chairman

Indian Banks’ Association

Stadium House

Veer Nariman Road

MUMBAI

Through: Proper Channel

Sir,

We the Officers working in ___________________Bank________________Branch/Office endorse the view points of our National Organization – All India Bank Officers’ Association[AIBOA] and urge upon you to take expeditious steps to resolve both the issues viz., REGULATED WORKING HOURS FOR BANK OFFICERS and BRINGING ABOUT PARITY BETWEEN SBI AND NON-SBI OFFICERS in the matter of Pay, fitment, special packages etc., and extend the latest SBI pension balancing package allowance to Non-SBI officers also.

Thanking you,

Yours faithfully,

S.No.

NAME

DESIGNATION

SIGNATURE

MEMORANDUM SPECIMEN

TO BE SUBMITTED BY UNIONSDURING DEPUTATION.

Place:

Date:

To:

The Chairman

Indian Banks’ Association

MUMBAI

Through: Proper channel

Sir,

We the Office Bearers of_________________________________Union/Association/Federation affiliated to ALL INDIA BANK OFFICERS’ ASSOCIATION working in___________________Bank endorse and fully support the demand of AIBOA for immediate resolution of the Regulated working hours for Bank Officers, since it is a very fair, just, reasonable demand. Absence of defined working hours has already caused heavy toll when several precious lives have been lost and the Bank officers stand deprived of social, harmonious domestic life which is nothing but human right violation.

We also fully agree that the Non-SBI officers have been perpetually discriminated and the latest issue of SBI Pension balancing cost extended to in service SBI officers if a further insult to the issue of parity. We demand extension of this special SBI pension package allowance to Non-SBI officers also.

We look forward to your kind intervention to resolve the tangle without any industrial unrest being foisted on the Bank officers as these issues are remaining unresolved for long and any further delay would be injurious to their interest.

Yours sincerely,

PRESIDENT GENERAL SECRETARY

Circular Letter No. .20:V:2011

August 30, 2011

To:

ALL UNITS / STATE COMMITTEES

Comrades,

A VETERAN PASSES AWAY

It is with great sense of sadness, we record the death of Com.R.D.TRIVEDI on 4^th August, 2011. He was the President of Gujarat Bank Workers’ Union at the time of his death.

Born in 1935, Com.R.D.Trivedi became the General Secretary of Gujarat State Federation of AIBEA. He was instrumental in building a strong Unit of AIBEA in Bank of Baroda and later became its General Secretary. His role in getting a consultative status for All India Co-ordination Committee in Bank of Baroda after and prolonged struggle for 90 days in Bank, is a milestone in the Bank of Baroda movement.

He was elected as the Assistant Secretary of AIBEA in 1971 in its Amritsar Conference and later became the Vice President in 2004.

His passing away is a great loss to AIBEA in general and the Gujarat State in particular.

We dip our banner in his memory and convey our deep sympathies to AIBEA men.

With Grief

/R.J.SRIDHARAN/

GENERAL SECRETARY

Circular No.15:V:2011
May 25, 2011

To:

ALL UNITS / STATE COMMITTEES

Comrades,

ENSUING CONFERENCE OF OUR ORGANIZATION

AT CHENNAI [TAMILNADU]

The Central Committee of our Association which met at Chennai on 19^th and 20^th April 2011 discussed the issue of holding the ensuing 6^th Conference of our organization. In fact the preceding central committee held at Bangaluru was already informed that the conference should be held during the year 2011 and the timing and venue could be finalized in the next meeting.

Accordingly the Secretariat called upon the Units, during the recently held CC meeting, to express their opinion on this as well as taking up the task of holding the 6^th Conference befittingly. It was how ever made clear to the units that the conference should be held before November 2011. During the deliberations Delhi, Punjab, Rajasthan and Tamilnadu State Committees offered to conduct the ensuing conference of our organization, if opportunity is given to them.

The Central Committee thereafter resolved that the Central Office would appropriately take a decision on the offers made by the Units in the matter of holding the ensuing 6^th Conference of our organization.

Accordingly the Central Office after consulting Secretariat and after duly considering the offer made by the four State Units of our Association in the CC meeting has decided to accept the offer of the Tamilnadu State Committee to hold the ensuing conference of AIBOA at Chennai.

The Units and State Committees are thus informed that the next conference of our Association will be held in CHENNAI. The Tamilnadu State Committee which has accepted the offer to host the next conference would finalize the venue conference at Chennai and the dates depending upon the availability of convenient hall for both the inaugural session and delegates session and inform us. We shall there after communicate to the Units and the State Committees about the details like venue and dates of the ensuing conference etc.

We shall soon come out with the schedule relating to the conference and the prerequisites of the units in the matter of delegates/observers and their duty with regard to helping the host unit in the matter of comfortably conducting the conference like financial support etc.

Onward to the 6^th Conference of AIBOA at CHENNAI [Tamilnadu]

With conference greetings,

/R.J.SRIDHARAN/

GENERAL SECRETARY

CIRCULAR LETTER TO ALL UNITS
11^th May, 2011

Dear Comrades,

· Decisions of joint Office Bearers meeting to move together to strengthen our twin banners.

A joint meeting of the Office Bearers of AIBEA and AIBOA was held in Chennai on 15-3-2011 to discuss about the issues of co-ordination, joint functioning, strengthening AIBOA and its units, etc. The meeting was jointly presided over by Com. Rajen Nagar, President of AIBEA and Com. Bhaskaran, Vice President of AIBOA.

After useful discussions and deliberations, the following decisions were taken:

The Apex-level Joint Co-ord. Committee of AIBEA and AIBOA should be held regularly and periodically.
Periodical review of the levels of co-ordination in various levels should be undertaken to remove difficulties, irritations, if any.
Special steps should be taken to streamline the relationship between our units of AIBEA and AIBOA in Punjab National Bank.
Joint meeting of our All India unions in Syndicate Bank, UCO Bank, Bank of Maharashtra, Punjab & Sind Bank, United Bank of India and Allahabad Bank should be held in the next few months.
The meeting noted that in Central Bank of India, due to the joint efforts, our AIBOA unit is increasing its membership and marching towards majority in that Bank.
In the next phase, co-ordination meetings would be held in other Banks.
State Federations of AIBEA should assist in strengthening the respective State Committees of AIBOA.
Joint movement of struggles should be undertaken on issues like banking sector reforms, outsourcing and attacks on job, Khandelwal Committee report recommendations, pending issues of employees and officers at industry-level and bank-level, etc both under the banner of UFBU as well as jointly by AIBEA and AIBOA.
Efforts should be taken to form AIBOA units in Banks and States where they do not exist now.
Next meeting of the Apex-level Committee should be held at the earliest to follow up these decisions.

Comrades, AIBOA had played a significant role in the last three decades in focusing the various issues concerning the bank officers and it has to expand its role and scope in the larger interest of bank trade union movement. Hence strengthening AIBOA is the paramount task of all of us and we are sure that all our units will address themselves to these tasks effectively.

With greetings,

Yours Comradely,

(C.H. Venkatachalam)

General Secretary- A.I.B.E.A.

(R.J. Sridharan)

General Secretary-A.I.B.O.A.

[AIBOA CIRCULAR NO. 14:V:2011 DATED 11.05.2011]

Circular No.13:V:2011

April 28, 2011

To:

ALL UNITS & STATE COMMITTEES

Comrades,

AIBOA CC DECISION ON SBI BALANCING COST AND ITS DISCRIMINATORY DISPOSAL

Having heard the entire developments leading to the interpretations of the conditions for Govt monitoring in the disposal of SBI balancing cost to be expended only for improvement of Pension in SBI, AIBOA Central Committee, took serious note of UFBU’s failure to stand on its pre settlement position of earmarking SBI pension cost only for pension improvements in SBI. AIBOA felt that Govt having failed to stick to its assurance , the CC has to fight for parity in the matter immediately and restore the sanctity of settlements with IBA.

While we have issued a separate Circular explaining as to how there was no demand for any compensation by any of the units at the start of wage negotiations and UFBU desired for one more Option except asking for same quality of earlier Pension and at negotiated cost to which all UFBU Units and their members are party . Hence at a later date that too after signing the MOU, the demand was made and that too unmindful of the fact that it was not any new settlement of pension but was only one more option to those who did not take the earlier option.

We feel SBI and Govt are adopting double standards and discriminatory attitude with ulterior motives creating division and to implement their agenda in the Industry.

AIBOA CC has called upon UFBU to hold on to its stand of having agreed for SBI Pension costing in a way to settle the Bipartite, to be used only for pension improvements in SBI , as otherwise the Forum will be betraying the hopes and confidence of members in all the Banks.

As a part of our efforts and struggle to call for parity , AIBOA have filed a Writ Petition in the Madras High Court for extension of the same allowances as given to SBI to all the Banks, in order to restore sanctity of Bipartite Settlements and we are happy that the Learned Judge Mr. Justice N.Paul Vasantha Kumar after hearing our prayer by our Advocate Sri E Prabu, has issued notice of motion , marking this case for further hearing.

Please note that we have not prayed for any stay of allowances in SBI but only made our Prayer to extend the same allowances to all Bank employees and officers as UFBU settlement did not envisage or settle.

Wage settlement for other banks at 16.5% or so and at 18.5% for SBI alone.

We hope all the constituents units of UFBU and more so majority members in all Banks viz., All officers and employees will welcome our efforts to uphold uniformity of service conditions and sanctity of settlement in Banks.

With Greetings

/R J SRIDHARAN/

GENERAL SECRETARY

Circular No.11:V:2011

April 26, 2011

To:

ALL UNITS / STATE COMMITTEES

Comrades,

PAYMENT OF SUBCRIPTION AND LEVY

The 5^th Central Committee meeting of the AIBOA held at our Institute at Mamallapuram expressed its serious concern over the non payment levy and subscriptions by some of our units especially when our All India Conference is nearing where participation by Delegates will be on the basis of units complying with the requirement of payment of subscriptions upto and inclusive of 2011 and levy in full.

Noting that many Units which collected levy by check-off have also not cleared the levy in respect of wage settlement in full and All India Punjab & Sind Bank Officers’ Federation and All India Allahabad Bank Officers’ Federation are major defaulters besides many unions paying levy not in accordance with actual collections.

In respect of subscriptions only part payments are received from many of the Units on yearly basis. The CC considering the budget of central office along with Tarak Institute at about one lakh monthly the part payment of subscription can hardly sustain AIBOA for 4 to 5 months a Year. Hence the CC called upon all our Units to clear subscriptions upto and including 2011 by 31.05.2011 latest without any further delay.

AIBOA CC has directed all Units to clear both subscriptions a levy in full before 31.05.2011 and has authorized central office to strictly adhere to the terms of Rules & Bye laws in this regard and to allow only Delegates from such units which are clearing their levy and subscription in full as per decision of the CC.

All our Units are requested to take due note of CC decision and take immediate steps to comply with the decision without fail and in full.

With greetings,

/R.J.SRIDHARAN/

GENERAL SECRETARY

Circular No.10:V:2011

April 26, 2011

To:

ALL UNITS / STATE COMMITTEES

Comrades,

TARAK INSTITUTE

Our just concluded 5^th Central committee held at our premises at Tarak Institute for Banking & TU Research at Mamallapuram discussed ways and means of making good use of the Institute by our unions and members for training, holding CC, Office Bearers meeting etc.

The CC noted that the Institute once it has become functional and has so far held more than 24 training sessions used by Banks, ourselves, Unions and our Units. The project is an accomplishment as per Silver Jubilee conference decision. The total investment in the self contained infrastructure is above 2 crores, out of levy donations from members and Banks.

In order to make full use of the premises it has been decided to undertake the following programmes in the Institute.

1. Our regular training of our unit level activists and functionaries for 5 days will be held twice in a year instead of 4 times as of now. All Units will have to sponsor 2 comrades each. Units will bear the charges between themselves and the participants with regard to Travel, stay and food arrangements etc, and course fee at minimum rate.

2. All our Units will have to hold atleast one meeting in the Institute premises once in 2 years ie; may be hold their committee meeting or Office bearers meeting or activists meeting or leadership programme or Defence camp and share the budget of the Institute in a small way. Units will bear all charges of course with food and for stay and use of hall for meeting. Units will make travel arrangements.

3. AIBOA shall hold Leadership Training programme of 50 comrades for which every unit should give 5 names each so to build the team for the future with special emphasis on trade union challenges. AIBOA shall charge only a nominal fees for this course for food and stay while candidates TA, Leave has to be borne by them only to foster better involvement.

4. While presently 3 to 4 Banks are sponsoring their courses now, efforts should be made by all Units to bring more Banks to sponsor courses for 2,3,4 or 6 days which suitable best friendly syllabus will be adopted on consultative.

All the Units are directed to involve wholeheartedly in making optimum use of our Institute to train our comrades in banking as well as trade union programme.

With greetings,

/R.J.SRIDHARAN/

GENERAL SECRETARY

Circular No.9:V:2011

April 26, 2011

To:

ALL UNITS / STATE COMMITTEES

Comrades,

AIBOA TRUST FOR UNORGANISED SECTOR RELIEF

It was at our Silver Jubilee Conference in 2006 we decided that our membership should be fully and actively involved in helping and rendering relief to Unorganized Sector on a regular footing and we registered our Trust on 29.07.2008.

We had also planned to start with to establish an Industrial Training Centre at Coimbatore – an Industrial city where on the job training and faculty training are available taking advantage of area of land offered by one of our affiliate to house the Institute.

Accordingly we have deposited an amount of Rs.4 lacs with the State Govt., to start the Institute.

With these moves, we have successfully obtained exemption from Income-Tax Commissioner for donations made to the fund exempt from Income-Tax and appealed to our comrades to donate one day wages to the cause of Unorganized Sector.

So far our separate account in the name of AIBOA TRUST FOR UNORGANISED SECTOR RELIEF has received a total of nearly Rs.9 lacs from our comrades. Except for Gujarat State OBC Officers and a few Bank units collectively there has been no serious effort to involve the membership in entirety.

The Central Committee meeting considered the slow pace of collections as a serious lapse on our part especially on the units to ensure the same.

The CC having regard to the fact that the donations are payable every year also on account of exemption, decided to modify the call for one day wage to a uniform donation of Rs.1000/- from every year so that units may collect the amount easily from all our members by debit authority etc., also and send a consolidated list to us.

The CC has decided to initiate other programmes of help to unorganized sector, once this programme takes off on a sound footing and directed all our Units to collect from every member without fail.

Please move immediately and fulfill the task within 3 months.

With greetings,

/R.J.SRIDHARAN/

GENERAL SECRETARY

Circular No.8:V:2011

April 15, 2011

ALL UNITS / STATE COMMITTEES

Comrades,

UFBU MEETING AT DELHI 23.03.2011

We appended below the circular of United Forum of Bank Unions conveying the decision of the UFBU meeting held at New Delhi on 23.03.2011 for information of our Units / State Committee.

With greetings,

/R.J.SRIDHARAN/

GENERAL SECRETARY

TEXT OF UFBU / 2011 / CIRCULAR No. 1 DATED 26^th March, 2011

Dear Comrades,

v UFBU’s CLARION CALL

v FIGHT BACK INCREASING ATTACKS ON BANKING SECTOR AND BANK EMPLOYEES/OFFICERS

v RESIST RETROGRADE BANKING REFORMS

v REPULSE ATTACKS ON JOBS AND JOB SECURITY

v BUILD UP AGITATIONS AND STRUGGLES

v GET READY FOR ALL INDIA BANK STRIKE

A meeting of the UFBU was held at New Delhi in AIBEA office on 25-3-2011. Com Milind Nadkarni (President, NCBE) presided over the meeting.

After observing a minute’s silence to pay homage to the thousands of people who had lost their lives in the recent tsunami-earthquake in Japan, the meeting took up for discussion the current developments in the banking industry and our various pending issues and demands and the steps to be taken there against.

1. BANKING SECTOR REFORMS

The meeting was concerned to note that the Government was taking all-out steps to implement their reforms agenda in the banking sector. Bills have been introduced in the Parliament to facilitate consolidation and merger of banks, to allow more FDI in banks, to allow proportionate voting rights to investors by deleting Section 12 (2) of Banking Regulations Act, exempting banking sector from the purview of Competition Commission to speed up merger processes, etc. The meeting noted with grave concern the decision of the Government to issue licences to industrial and corporate houses to open more Banks in the private sector. In the public sector, the Government wants to close down our Banks in the name of consolidation but at the same time in the private sector, they want expansion by allowing more Banks. Social role of public sector banks is sought to be diluted and micro financing is being virtually handed over to private hands who are exploiting and looting the gullible poor with usurious interest rates.

2. PRIVATISATION OF BANKING AND OUTSOURCING OF BANK JOBS:

The meeting also took note of the Government’s announcement in the recent Budget proposing to extend banking services to 73,000 villages by employing private Business Correspondents. This would mean that normal banking services would be handed over to private hands and regular banking jobs would be outsourced. Already perennial and permanent jobs are being outsourced to contract agencies instead of employing regular employees. This is very serious challenge to our jobs and job security.

3. ATTEMPTS TO IMPOSE ANTI-EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS OF KHANDELWAL COMMITTEE:

The meeting took exception to the open attempts being made to somehow implement the retrograde recommendations of Khandelwal Committee. There are reports that the Government has advised the Banks to move towards Incentive based Variable Pay for officers to “reward the performers” and deprive others. The meeting decided that the anti-employee recommendations of Khandelwal Committee should be fought out tooth and nail.

4. SETTLE PENDING DEMANDS:

The meeting observed that the IBA and the Government are adopting a casual approach to the genuine issues of the bank employees and officers.

Ø Even though IBA and UFBU had finalised a revised scheme on compassionate appointments/financial compensation to the families of employees who die in harness, the Government has not cleared the same for implementation and for months together the issue is pending.

Ø While business volume in the Banks has gone up manifold and workload on employees and officers has increased enormously, adequate recruitments are not being made. The impending large-scale retirements in the next few years would further aggravate the shortage and warranting timely recruitment of sufficient number of staff. Nearly 150,000 vacancies remain unfilled in the Banks. But the present recruitments in the Banks are not matching the requirement.

Ø Further the recruitment processes is privatised and handled by private agencies. Hence the meeting demanded adequate recruitments and revival of BSRBs.

Ø Pension related issues like updation of pension, 100 % DA for all pensioners , increase in Ex gratia for pre-1986 retirees, extension of improvements in pension scheme as done for the Government employees under the 6^th Pay Commission, etc. are kept pending and amicable resolution is being denied.

Ø Uniformity and improvements in staff related loan schemes like House Building Loan, Vehicle Loan, Festival Advance Scheme, Allocation to Staff Welfare Scheme, etc are being denied leading to discrimination from Bank to Bank.

Ø Bank Officers are being denied the basic service condition of a properly defined regulated working hours subjecting them to age-old draconian British rule of 24 hours servants. Even in the case of workman employees working hours are being rampantly violated in the absence of adequate provision of manpower.

Ø Pending demands like introduction of 5 Days Banking per Week are not being settled with earnestness.

Ø It has been reported that Government has sent arbitrary instructions to the Banks not to allow any additional benefits to the staff without specific approval from the Government, totally diluting the autonomy of the Banks.

Having regard to all these issues and background, the meeting came to the conclusion that an agitation should be built to focus the issues. In view of the impending elections in some of the States during the month of April, 2011, the meeting decided as under:

1. To build up powerful campaign, agitations and struggle on the above issues and demands.

2. To hold an All India Convention in Delhi in May 2011 followed by agitational programmes, State level Dharnas and a Dharna before Parliament.

3. To organize All India Bank Strike during monsoon session of the Parliament.

Comrades,

· AWAIT THE DETAILED PROGRAMME.

· AWAIT THE CALL OF UFBU.

· PREPARE FOR THE STRUGGLE.

· GET READY FOR THE STRIKE ACTION.

With greetings,

Yours Comradely,

/sd./C.H.VENKATACHALAM

CONVENER

Circular Letter No.3:V:2011

March 11, 2011

To:

ALL UNITS / STATE COMMITTEES

Comrades,

Trade Union International of Banks, Insurance & Finance Unions [TUI BIFU]

World Federation of Trade Unions took a conscious decision to organize a separate trade union for the most powerful sector any country, ie; Financial Sector comprising of Banks, Insurance etc. This move was necessitated due to the changing scenario world over, especially the reforms agenda of various Governments particularly in the financial sectors. WFTU is aware of the detrimental consequences of such reforms, blatantly undertaken by the ruling powers that be.

Accordingly the Inaugural Congress TUI BIFU was held at New Delhi on 24^th & 25^th February 2011. The conference was a grand success.

130 Delegates from 42 Trade Unions organizations from various parts of the World such as Asia, Africa, Middle East and Latin America participated in the congress. The participation vindicated the position and stand of WFTU in the matter of forming such apex organization.

The participants from our country included AITUC, CITU, apart from our Twin organization AIBEA and AIBOA and Organizations from LIC.

This conference follows the earlier formation of ARO bifu comprising of financial sector unions working in Asia on 15^th November 2008 at Delhi.

The conference elected Com.Alexander Likhtarovitch of Belarus as President and Com.C.H.Venkatachalam, the General Secretary of AIBEA as General Secretary among others

Our Organization was represented by Com.N.Siddharth Dutta, our Secretary along with others. We reproduce the presentation made by Com.Siddharth is reproduced herewith.

Comrades, this organization, we are confident will break new grounds in the matter of strengthening the relations between the like minded trade unions of the financial sector world over.

We convey our greetings and Best Wishes to the new Organization.

With Greetings,

/R.J.SRIDHARAN/

GENERAL SECERETARY

Circular Letter No.2:V:2011

March 16, 2011

To:

ALL UNITS / STATE COMMITTEES

Comrades,

Parliament Morch on 23.02.2011

The Parliament Morcha on 23.02.2011 undertaken by various Central Trade Unions was a grand success.

The programme highlighted various issues such as price rise, unemployment, attacks on working class, attempted financial reforms, privatization etc.

The morcha witnessed a massive conglomeration of more than 5 lacs workers drawn by various trade unions from all sectors. The march and slogans reverberated in the entire stretch of the route. Representatives of the Unions presented a Memorandum to the Speaker of the Loksabha, highlighting the issues.

There has been a large contingent of AIBOA men and women in the rally. We congratulate them.

At the end of the Morcha, a Memorandum was submitted to the Speaker of Lok Sabha.

In the wake of the success of the Morcha, the Central Trade Unions will chalk out further programmes to further highlight the national issues

With greetings,

/R.J.SRIDHARAN/

GENERAL SECRETARY

Circular No.7:V:2011

February 17, 2011

To:

ALL UNITS / STATE COMMITTEES

Comrades.

IBA DISCARDS UFBU TO TALK TO ONE APEX UNION

We have come across a circular issued by one of the constituents of UFBU, after holding a meeting with IBA Chairman in the presence of IBA, CEO on 06.01.2011 on industry level pending issues being pursued by UFBU.

You are aware that ever since the Chief of the biggest Commercial Bank took over IBA as its Chairman and brought pressure to finalize the wage settlement with the new element of pension balancing and refused our demand of for PF balancing totally, UFBU has been making serious attempts to meet him to discuss pending matters.

Countless number of representations oral and on record were made to IBA Chairman for the last several months but he was “so busy” after UFBU meeting that he could not grant audience to UFBU all the while.

However today we are surprised to find that the same Chairman from SBI finds enough and more time to meet his SBI counterparts and AIBOC to discuss in the presence of IBA CEO, all issues which are in the domain of IBA and UFBU. Never in the past has any meeting with one union been made use of to dispose off industry level issues. We do not know whether it is a new tradition of IR practice from the biggest Bank in charge of IBA or their comfort level will be ensured at the industry level with only such Bipartite forums?

We have asked IBA to clarify. Time and again all the constituents try to meet respective managements before their general body to take stock of issue. But never is it given image of an industry level discussion with the appeasing role of Bankers as we witness today. We know members are shrewd and sensitive enough to know that it is but an attempt to hoodwink them on the non-movement of issues, in order to paint a picture of movement to convince delegates in their conference. We have seen it happen many times before to bolster leadership in the meetings by many unions. But why IBA should have a leading role to bye-pass UFBU with whom it has negotiated the last settlement on the employees and officers at apex unions with whom they negotiate joint settlements.

UFBU is being usurped by powers who wants to control everything in the industry. Whenever we raise a vital point of difference some of the apex unions cry a hoarse even to discuss. Today when UFBU is bypassed by both IBA and one of the constituents, are we to say

SBI is IBA

AIBOC is UFBU

Are we to declare UFBU is waylaid?

Let us ponder over?

With greetings

/R.J.SRIDHARAN/

GENERAL SECRETARY

Circular Letter No: 1:V:2011

February 15, 2011

To:

ALL UNITS / STATE COMMITTEES

Dear Comrade,

Vide our Circular No.15:V:2010 dated 25-08-2010, we had called upon the employees retired under VRS as per Officers’ Service Regulations and also those who were imposed with the punishment of “Compulsory Retirement” to fight collectively against denial of another pension option by bank managements.

Canara Bank Officers’ Union and All India Canara Bank Retirees’ Federation are extending secretarial assistance and coordinating the work relating to court cases with our counsels.

We wish to inform that 57 Officers joining together have filed the Writ Petition No.26916/2010 in the Madras High Court. Upon hearing our case argued by our Senior Counsel, Shri A.L.Somayaji, the Hon’ble Court was pleased to admit the Writ Petition on 30-11-2010 ordering notice to the respondents.

Also, we have finalised arrangements to file shortly another Writ Petition in Karnataka High Court to strengthen our case further in respect of denial of pension option to VRS optees.

Taking into account the current thinking of the Central Govt. on this issue and bearing in mind that the case would reach its finality only at the level of Supreme Court, we have already engaged and paid advocate fees to legal counsels at Chennai for arguing the court cases before High Courts of Chennai and Karnataka and Supreme Court. The collections were enlisted from the VRS affected on a holistic basis to meet the entire expenses of Court case and all other expenses thereon at High Courts and Supreme Court in a common one time contribution.

While the anxiety and concern articulated by the affected retired employees through E-mails/SMS and telephonic contacts is understandable, the schedule of listing, hearing and prioritising the cases by the Hon’ble Court are beyond our control. Our Units are following up the matter and petition may come up early.

As these two Writ Petitions at Chennai and Bangalore including Lawyers’ fees, paper work, documentation, court stamping etc., involve heavy expenditure, we may have to speed on Supreme Court appeal eventually given the Government’s mind as of now. Supreme Court appeal, even with a minimum of one or two appearances by Lawyers, may cost us about 5 lacs. As such, all the amounts received are being held for meeting all the two cases filed by us including Supreme Court case. We shall meet required expected expenditure with your help.

Our Units are filing Writ petitions as per advice of legal counsel in Chennai and Karnataka High Courts. Even though 57 VRS optees are represented in the Writ petitions in Chennai and Karnataka High Courts, the Supreme Court verdict will normally cover all VRS officers as law of the land.

Our Units will keep you informed of further developments in the court cases including date of hearing etc., from time to time.

With greetings,

(R.J.SRIDHARAN)

GENERAL SECRETARY

Circular No.6:V:2011

February 15, 2011

To:

ALL UNITS / STATE COMMITTEES

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Festival Advance to employees of Public Sector Banks

Yours faithfully,

K Unnikrishnan

Dy. Chief Executive

ALL INDIA BANK OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION

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