"INDIAN" BANKKUMAR

BANK EMPLOYEES FEDERATION OF INDIA

NARESH PAUL CENTRE

53 Radha Bazar Lane (1st Floor), Kolkata – 700 001

Circular No.56/2020 27th Aug 2020

To all Units, Affiliates, Office Bearers, CC & GC Members

Dear Comrades,

Sub: Letter to 4 Workmen Unions on Meeting of Working Groups

A meeting of the Working Group for Workmen is slated tomorrow at Mumbai. As we did not sign the MoU on 22nd July 2020, IBA will not invite us for further discussion was a known outcome. We all know another meeting of the Working Group for Workmen was held on 20th of this month. Meeting of the unions before the negotiation for distribution has been a practice followed till 10th Bipartite Settlement. BEFI was not consulted before any of the meetings. We did not sign the MoU for reasons explained unambiguously. The issues require to be discussed during the distribution have been identified during meetings of the small committee as well as full negotiating committee. On most of the issues IBA agreed to discuss during the distribution of quantum.

We addressed a letter to the General Secretaries of four Workmen Unions/Associations narrating our views on the subject matters.

Text of the letter is appended below .

With greetings,

Yours comradely,

(Debasish Basu Chaudhury)

General Secretary

TEXT OF THE LETTER TO THE GENERAL SECRETARIES OF WORKMEN UNIONS

Quote:

“We are aware that a meeting of the Working Group for Workmen was held on 20th of this month and another is slated to be held tomorrow, 28th August 2020.

As we all know, it had been practice to hold meeting of the unions prior to the negotiation for distribution of quantum to arrive at a common position. The meeting of tomorrow is going to be held physically at Mumbai and there has not been any intimation so far for holding meeting of workmen Unions, it won’t be possible for the undersigned to attend a Meeting at Mumbai even if it is decided now.

Moreover, we have already expressed our views on the MoU in a letter addressed to UFBU Convener on 25th of this month with copy marked to all constituents.

In this backdrop we would like to place our suggestions based on Common Charter of Demands and discussion held so far in Small Committee and Full Negotiation Committee meetings of which BEFI was an integral part.

Our views

Not withstanding our reservation on 2.5% loading, we like to point out that IBA has to clarify the basis of arriving at Rs.1155 Cr to be 2.5% of pay after merger of DA at 6352 point of C.P.I. Secondly as per IBA’s letter dt. 13.08.20, only 12.5% (15%-2.5%) of pay slip component is to be distributed on other heads which comes to Rs. 6582 Cr (12.5% of Rs 52655.34 Cr). After utilisation of Rs 1155 Cr for 2.5% loading on BP an amount of Rs 6743 Cr (Rs.7898Cr – Rs.1155Cr) is supposed to be available for distribution on other heads. Here there is mismatch of Rs 161 Cr (Rs 6743 Cr – Rs 6581 Cr). IBA should not be allowed to pass.

Stagnation increments once in 2 years without any ceiling for both clerical and subordinate staff.