General Secretary
UNION BANK RETIRED EMPLOYEES’ ASSOCIATION
(Registered
under Trade Union Act,, 1926 : Registration No.G-6201)
(Affiliated to All India Union Bank Retirees Federation) Registered Office :-
203, ‘Navkar’ Commercial Complex, Near Syndicate Bank,
Para Bazar Chowk,
Dhebar Road-North (One Way), RAJKOT
– 360 001 (Gujarat).
Ref: A:2015:55 Date: 14th May,’15
To By
e-mail
Shri
S.C.Jain,
General
Secretary,
All
India Bank Retirees' Federation,
Camp
: New Delhi.
Sir,
(1) Your Letter to the Convener and Constituents of UFBU
(2) Reply thereto from AIBEA
1. I have gone through your Letter dated 12th
May,’15 addressed to the Convener, United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU), copies
of which are endorsed to all the constituents of UFBU. It is QUITE APPROPRIATE
AND EXCELLENT.
2. I have also seen the reply dated 14th May,’15 to you by AIBEA. We can not concur with the views of AIBEA on the
following counts.
(a) In the Rally organized by
AIBRF at Delhi
last year, the General Secretary of AIBEA had categorically assured
us that no settlement would be signed for the serving employees unless
reasonable demands of the retirees would be agreed to by IBA. Similar assurances were given by him in various other forums /
meetings addressed by him, where I was in the audience.
(b) There is a contention of AIBEA that all pending court cases for 100%
neutralization of dearness relief should be withdrawn so as persuade the Indian
Banks’ Association to settle the issue. We can not agree to this, because of
the following reasons.
i. Some of the petitioners of these court cases are not within the fold of
AIBRF. They are individuals – not members of any retirees’ organizations or
belongs to the organizations which are not associated to AIBRF. Such
petitioners will not listen to advice of AIBRF to withdraw their litigations.
ii. Once the IBA settles the demand, the court cases will be automatically
stand withdrawn.
iii. In the past, even when there were pending court cases, IBA had settled
the matters. Following are illustrations.
Ø The bank employees retired prior to 1st November,’02 were
getting pension @ 41% instead of 50% of the average of their last 10 months’
salary, because they were paid pension by merging dearness allowance on 1616
points instead of 1684 points. There were many court cases pending; but IBA
rectified the anomaly with effect from 1st May, 2005. The court
litigations are still pending to give this benefit with retrospective effect.
Ø The Officers retired voluntarily under their Service Regulations were
fighting legal battles in various courts for extending second pension option to
them. IBA agreed to it without any pre-condition to withdraw the legal suits.
Our Association had also a writ petition going on in Gujarat
High Court, which we had withdrawn only after getting confirmation from the
concerned retired Officer members of our Association that payment of pension
was commenced to them.
3. In normal course, my such communications meant for AIBEA should be
routed through you only. However, ignoring such a protocol, I am endorsing a
copy of this letter directly to the General Secretary, AIBEA because (i) I do
not believe in such fake organizational protocols and (ii) While in service, I
was also a soldier and a leader of AIBEA at our state level for more than three
decades and had sacrificed my banking career of promotions for the noble task
to serve the cause of AIBEA. I do not know any leader of other constituents of
UFBU nor do I have their e-mail IDs and hence not endorsing this communications
to any of them.
4. I endorse your request to the General Secretary of AIBEA to stick to his
words not to sign the 10th BP Settlement unless retirees’ issues are
settled.
5. With due regards to you and also to the General Secretary of AIBEA,
Yours sincerely,
B.G.Raithatha,
General Secretary
C.c.to:-
(1) The General Secretary, AIBEA
(only by e-mail)
(2) All other regular recipients of
our Association’s e-mails
