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