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ALL INDIA BANK EMPLOYEES UNITY FORUM, (AIBEUF)

                       77/2/1 LENIN SARANI, KOLKATA – 700013                                 

Circular No.2/2012-2013                                                                                                                      March 25, 2013   

For circulating among the members

Dear Comrades,

Consequent upon the resolution adopted unanimously at the National Converntion of AIBEUF, held on 16^th March at the “Indian Association Hall”, Kolkata pledging to organize the bank employees to wage a sustained movement to resolve the anti employees issues the Extended Executive Committee Meeting of the AIBEUF held on the 17^th March, 2013 in Kolkata launched the following programmes with a view to accelerate movement of the bank employees throughout the country:-

1). AIBEUF’s Charter of Demand for the 10^th bipartite settlement which has been printed in   booklet is to be circulated among the bank employees en-mass and some fund to be

     collected as and where possible. Also the booklet to be translated in regional languages like Bengali, Hindi, Oriya etc.

2). ‘ALL INDIA DEMAND DAY’ to be observed on 10^th May, 2013 with en-mass mobilization  of bank employees.

3). Before the Demand Day is observed, for wide preparation and campaign for the Demand Day,  following programmes are to be organized.

a)    Conventions to be organized in state level, district level, city/town level by the respective  State Committees of BEUF.

b)    Sit-On-Demonstration programme to be observed in Kolkata, Bhubaneswar, Patna, Lucknow and or Mordabad, Rohtak, Bangalore, Jorhat and also wherever possible.

c)    Group Meetings, Leaflet publication in English, Hindi  and local languages.

4). Legal Fund for fighting the Pension Case in the Supreme Court and Fighting Fund for

     the movements of the Forum to be collected from bank employees.

All the members and all units, state committees, local/bank-wise, branch-wise bodies are requested to make necessary arrangements to make the programmes all out success.

With warm greetings,

J. Raymandal

General Secretary, AIBEUF

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ALL INDIA BANK EMPLOYEES UNITY FORUM, (AIBEUF)

77/2/1 LENIN SARANI, KOLKATA – 700013

Circular No.1/2010-2011                                                                                                                       March 21, 2013

For circulating among the members

Dear Comrades,

A National Convention of the bank employees was held under the banner of our organization – AIBEUF on 16^th March, 2013 at the Indian Association Hall, Kolkata on the Charter of Demand for the 10^th bipartite Settlement and all other burning issues of the day which are of great concern for the bank employees, customers and the banking industry as a whole and the millions of common people. Emphasizing the focal issues among those, the slogans of the convention were :

We Oppose . Merger of Banks . Banking Laws (Amendment) Bill 2012 . Outsourcing of jobs. New Pension Scheme. Contract System in Banking Industry and

We Demand. Immediate Introduction of  scientific pay structure . Updation of Pension and  Family Pension . Recruitment in all vacant posts . All temporary staff be made permanent. Not to appoint contract labourers in any regular job . Scrapping of Khandelwal Committee recommendations & . Recovery of all NPAs.

Hundreds of bank employees from different banks of different corners of the country attended the convention with great enthusiasm. The Convention was presided by Comrade Purna Chandra Behera, the vice president of AIBEUF and secrtetary, BEUF, Odhisa. Comrade G.S.Das, secretary, BEUF, WB and a member of the Central Committee, AIBEUF moved the main Resolution of the convention and Comrade Basanta Kr. Roy, secretary, IDBI Employees’ Association, Kolkata seconded the resolution. The leaders of the Forum Comrade P.C.Behera, Comrade Jagannath Raymandal, General Secretary, AIBEUF, Comrade V.P.Singh, vice president, AIBEUF deliberated their convincing speeches on the issue fully supporting the resolution. Comrade Jagannath Raymandal explained how and why from Outsource, Contract Employment System, Indiscriminate Pay Packages of the employees to bail out stimulus packages from public exchequer  to Corporate Sharks who cause NPAs are all the consequences of globalization of Finance Capital and the bank employees have to fight those for survival. Comrade Samir Sarkar, leader of PNB Employees, Delhi also spoke on the issues as the guest speaker with full support to the resolution.

The dias was graced by Comrade Shankar Saha, General Secretary, AIUTUC who addressed the convention as the Chief speaker. While extending his all out support to the demands of the bank employees and best wishes for their struggle to achieve those, Comrade Shankar Saha urged upon the regular employees of the banks to stand on moral ground by the side of the Contract Workers, who, while rendering same job and shouldering same responsibilities and bearing same work load as the regular employees do, are getting very low nominal remuneration in comparison to the regular employees. This is so inhumane and so injustice to them that should be fought with utmost importance.  He appealed to the conscience of the regular bank employees not to be centred round their own interests only but also the interests of the Contract Workers who are and in near future will remain as the only work force in banking industry and all other sectors. At the cost of whom the big capitalists and the corporate giants are and will be eating all creams of the society and the economy but who are not having and will have no remuneration according to minimum wage norms, no dignity, no security of service, no provision for future and no protection by any law to fight the injustices and onslaughts against them. They are only the tools of “Hire and Fire” policy of the Corporate and big capitalists to maximize their profits which is promoted by the bankers and the government. Hence this is the most burning issue of the day for the working class and must be fought uncompromisingly and unitedly by all sections of toiling masses and as a part of working class movement. We must give top priority for abolition of Contract Labour System and converting all contract employees as permanent employees, Same pay for same job must be achieved.

The convention, while congratulating the bank employees for making historic two days’ nationwide General Strike on 20^th & 21^st February 2013 a grand success, strongly opposed and condemned all anti-employees unilateral measures of the bankers flouting all laid down norms of Bi-partite mechanism by implementing the recommendations of Khandelwal Committee, vile attempt for introduction of bank-wise pay structure, discriminatory individual pay packages, performance based pay and reward, formalization of contractual service, reversion of award staff / officer ratio, importation of coinage like “core” and “non-core”  activities by misleading the people for smoothly carrying on the outsource and contract workers system. It strongly denounced bankers-government move to abolish different vacancies, growing volume of NPA and doling out of huge fund through CDR mechanism, Base Rate System, Rating System and different stimulus packages to the big and monopoly industrial houses who are the willful defaulters causing heaps of NPAs in banks. It strongly opposed the Banking Regulation Amendment Act that enables opening up of the banking sector to the Corporate Houses even to the Real Estate Companies and Broking Firms. It also opposed any move for merger of public sector banks on the plea of consolidation.

The convention demanded introduction of Scientific Pay Structure based on the recommendations of the 15^th Indian Labour Conference held in 1957 discarding ad-hoc methods of wage increase based on the heinous concept of “load factor”, Updation of Basic Pension with each Bi-partite settlement, Improvment of Family Pension raising the same uniformly at 30% of Basic Pension, Uniform DA for all retired employees and Immediate Withdrawal of New Pension Scheme, Outsourcing be discarded,  All contract basis employees be converted to regular bank employees with no loss of time, and All vacancies in the banking industry must be fulfilled within shortest possible time.

This convention firmly notes that though UFBU was formed for fighting the causes of the bank employees, but experience reveals that the most burning anti-employees heinous measures like Outsourcing, Contract Employment System, introduction of New Pension Scheme and so on and so forth have been imposed as outcome of the earlier bipartite settlements so far. Most of the rights gloriously achieved by the bank employees by hard struggle have been curtailed by the bankers unopposed. UFBU and its constituents have left the path of struggle. They can no more lead the struggle. AIBEUF, under the circumstances, pledges to organize the bank employees to wage sustained movement to resolve the same.

On the following day, the 17^th March, 2013 the Extended Executive Committee Meeting of the AIBEUF was held. The Committee launched the following programmes with a view to accelerate movement of the bank employees throughout the country:-

1). AIBEUF’s Charter of Demand for the 10^th bipartite settlement which has been printed in booklet  is to be

     circulated among the bank employees en-mass and some fund to be collected as and where possible.

     Also the booklet to be translated in regional languages like Bengali, Hindi, Oriya etc.

2). ‘ALL INDIA DEMAND DAY’ to be observed on 10^th May, 2013 with en-mass mobilization of bank

      employees.

3). Before the Demand Day is observed, for wide preparation and campaign for the Demand Day,

     following programmes are to be organized.

a)     Conventions to be organized in state level, district level, city/town level by the respective  State Committees of BEUF.

b)    Sit-On-Demonstration programme to be observed in Kolkata, Bhubaneswar, Patna, Lucknow and or Mordabad, Rohtak, Bangalore, Jorhat and also wherever possible.

c)     Group Meetings, Leaflet publication in English, Hindi  and local languages.

4). Legal Fund for fighting the Pension Case in the Supreme Court and Fighting Fund for the

    movements of the Forum to be collected from bank employees.

All the members and all units, state committees, local/bank-wise, branch-wise bodies are requested to make necessary arrangements to make the programmes all out success.

With warm greetings,

J. Raymandal

General Secretary, AIBEUF

*****

ALL INDIA BANK EMPLOYEES UNITY FORUM, (AIBEUF)

                         77/2/1 LENIN SARANI, KOLKATA – 700013                                    

NATIONAL CONVENTION

Held on 16^th March, 2013 at the Indian Association Hall, Kolkata

RESOLUTION

The congregation of the Bank Employees representing all cadres and assembled from different corners of the country at the call of the All India Bank Employees Unity Forum, at the very outset, congratulates the bank employees in particular for making the historic two days’ nationwide General Strike on 20^th & 21^st February last a grand success.

The convention notes with concern the fast growing tendency of the bankers to unilaterally introduce different anti-employee measures flouting all laid down norms and traditions of bi-partite mechanism. One of such measures is implementation of the recommendations of the Khandelwal Committee which aims at axing the very base of Bi-partite settlement and industry-wide negotiation system.

This convention strongly opposes and condemns any vile attempt to introduce bank-wise pay structure, discriminatory individual pay-package and promotion in the guise of performance-linked pay and reward, formalization of contractual service at different levels as a regular mode of employment, reversing the award-staff / officer ratio in the banking industry to make it officer-centric to carve out the major chunk of the employees beyond the purview of the Industrial Dispute Act and such others.

This convention demands widening of the scope of Bipartite negotiaon and early conclusion of the on-going 10^th Bi-partite settlement on the basis of a scientific pay structure based on the recommendations of the 15^th Indian Labour Conference held in the year 1957 discarding ad-hoc methods of wage increase based on the heinous concept of “load factor”.

This assembly also strongly condemns the importation of the coinages like “core” and “non-core” activities to hoodwink the people and to buttress the process of “outsourcing” and employment of “contract workers”. It also strongly opposes the growing initiative of the bankers to outsource any and every activity of the bank ignoring even their own demarcation of core and non-core activities.

This convention demands deletion of such demarcation of activities as core and non-core. It also demands that all the activities of the banks must be left to be carried out by the bank employees only. Outsourcing be discarded and all the personnel engaged in banks on contract basis must be converted to regular bank employees with no loss of time.

This convention strongly denounces the overt and covert moves of the bankers and the government to silently abolish or eat away different vacancies especially in the award-staff cadre and their inertia in filling up even the declared vacancies. This convention demands that all the vacancies in the banking industry must be fulfilled within shortest possible time.

This assembly of bank employees notes with concern the growing volume of Non-Performing Assets in banks. While this convention recognizes this as the reflection of inevitable economic doldrums the moribund capitalism is in, it cannot but register its strong opposition to the way the funds are being doled out through CDR mechanism, Base Rate System, Rating System and different stimulus packages to the big and monopoly industrial houses who are willful defaulters.

This convention strongly opposes the Banking Regulation Amendment Act that enables opening up of the banking sector to the corporate houses even to the Real Estate Companies and Broking Firms in utter disregard to the people’s interest. And the compelling reasons behind nationalization. This convention also opposes any move for merger of public sector banks on the plea of consolidation.

This assembly demands updation of Basic Pension with each Bi-partite settlement, improvement of Family Pension raising the same uniformly at 30% of Basic Pension, uniform DA for all retired employees and immediate withdrawal of New Pension Scheme among others.