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Around 10 lakh <keyword id="6477319" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Bank-Employees">bank employees</keyword>, belonging to public and private sectors, have decided to observe a day-long strike on July 29, as a protest against the "anti-people" banking reform policies that the centre has announced. 
 
The United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU), which consists of nine trade unions across the country, have around 10 lakh bank employees and officers, all of which would be taking part in the strike. 
 
The employees have several demands, including not to privatise public sector banks or to increase private capital in such banks, while also protesting against Foreign Direct Investment in the banking sector. 
 Other than this, the unions are also opposing move to privatise regional rural banks, co-operative banks, consolidate and merging banks among others, said All India Bank Employees Association (<keyword id="327672" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="AIBEA">AIBEA</keyword>) General Secretary C H Venkatachalam. 
 
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10 Lakh bank employees to go on strike on 29th July, protesting against unfriendly reforms

Bank employees across India, who were supposed to go on strike on January 7, 2015 over the Indian Bank Association’s (<keyword id="50362" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="IBA">IBA</keyword>) stance on wage revision issue, have decided to defer the strike after the IBA decided to raise its stance to 12.5%. Earlier, the IBA had offered 11% salary hike against 23% raise demanded by the United Forum of Bank Unions’ (UFBU, an association of over nine bank employee unions). 
 “IBA has improved their offer to 12.5% raise in salaries. Talks will continue today as well. Hence, we deferred our strikes that were supposed to happen today,” said <keyword id="2603828" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="CH-Venkatchalam">CH Venkatchalam</keyword>, general secretary of All India Bank Employee Association (<keyword id="327672" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="AIBEA">AIBEA</keyword>). 
 
However, he added that the bank employees intend to go the four day long strike from January 21 to January 24, 2015 as planned earlier. The employees aim to bring the bank operations to halt for almost a week. “The relay strikes will be across the country and will substantially affect the functioning of the banks all over India as the four day long strikes will be followed by the weekend,” added Venkatchalam. 
 
According to AIBEA, the bank managements have cited decline in profits as a reason for their stance on pay hikes. However, the employees have rejected the claim. 
 
It should be noted that the strike held in the last week of November had massive implication on banking operations across the country. Several ATMs were not working while many banks remained closed due to the strike.

IBA Revises Its Stance To 12.5%, Bank Employees Defer Strike

Unhappy with the Indian Bank Association’s (<keyword id="50362" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="IBA">IBA</keyword>), rigidity in the matter of pay hike of bank employees, over nine lakh bank employees will now go on zonal strikes in December, 2014. The IBA is the apex body of all banks operating in the country. 
	 “IBA have stuck to their earlier stand of 11% despite the United Forum of Bank Unions’ (UFBU, an association of over nine bank employee unions) flexibility in scaling down the demand to 23% hike in our salaries. Consequently, the conciliation also ended in stalemate. Hence, relay strikes in December stands. This will be followed by strikes in March,” said <keyword id="2603828" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="CH-Venkatchalam">CH Venkatchalam</keyword>, general secretary of All India Bank Employee Association (<keyword id="327672" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="AIBEA">AIBEA</keyword>) to BI India. The AIBEA is the largest as well as the old bank employee association with nearly 5 lakh employees as members. 
	 
	The bank employees had held a mass strike on November 12, 2014 as a response to IBA’s stand on wage redistribution. “The strike was a befitting reply to the rigid approach of the IBA. Two years are over and even though 14 rounds of negotiations have taken place, the talks have not concluded as the Indian Banks’ Association is not coming forward to reach an amicable settlement,” said Venkatchalam in an internal letter to the AIBEA members. 
	 
	According to AIBEA, the bank managements have cited decline in profits as a reason for their stance on pay hikes. However, the employees have rejected the claim. 
	 
	The strike held last week had massive implication on banking operations across the country. Several ATMs were not working while many banks remained closed due to the strikes. This time, the employees will go on protests on December 2, 2014 in southern region, December 3 in the northern region, followed by strikes in eastern and northeastern region on December 4, 2014. Protests will be held on December 5, 2014 in the western region of the country. “If the matter is not resolved then these will be followed by more strike actions including indefinite strike,” stated Venkatchalam.

Indian Bank Employees To Go On Strikes Over Salary Issues

Chartered Accountant and Editor of Tamil political magazine 'Thuglak' S. Gurumurthy said he was pressurised to take up the board position in the <keyword id="6354335" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="reserve-bank-of-india" source="Orion">Reserve Bank of India</keyword> (<keyword id="30067" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="rbi" source="Orion">RBI</keyword>). Gurumurthy told this in an email to the All India Bank Employees Association (AIBEA) General Secretary C.H. <keyword id="215998" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="venkatachalam" source="Orion">Venkatachalam</keyword> and also dared the latter to share the mail with the <keyword id="6357801" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="union" source="Orion">Union</keyword> members. As a post script in his email, Gurumurthy told Venkatachalam: "You all think that me being in the <keyword id="370514" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="rbi-board" source="Orion">RBI Board</keyword> is a big thing. I was pressurised to take up that position as there were not many to put a counter view in the RBI Board." "I did not need it nor did I seek it. For decades I had never taken any position in or from the government. Nor will I ever." "Me, in the RBI Board, was criticised by the Financial media in the West, and I am happy you a communist share their views now," Gurumurthy added. Continuing further. Gurumurthy said he had never allowed anyone in any public fora to state that he is on the RBI Board in the introductory remarks. "You have expressed grave concern about me being on the RBI Board. You may not know that if I am not on the RBI Board it makes very little difference to me," Gurumurthy said. Gurumurthy wrote to Venkatachalam in response to the latter's message in social media condemning him for his comments at Thuglak magazine's annual function about the public sector bankers. Speaking at the Thuglak magazine's annual function, Gurumurthy had said the public sector banks are losing talented officials to the private sector owing to poor pay and lack of freedom. "Only scums and filth are remaining with public sector banks and with them, the country has to compete globally in the financial sector," he had said. Gurumurthy also said that till the government has majority stakes in its banks, it is not possible to encourage talented staff. Reacting to that Venkatachalam said: "We strongly condemn his uncalled for comments and demand his immediate apology. He is unfit to be on the Board of RBI and the government should remove him from this important post." Gurumurthy in his email to Venkatachalam said: "I would not have written if I had not known you and you had not invited me for the AIBEA workshop. Your post has started a campaign against me." Stating that many campaigns were made against him earlier Gurumurthy said: "I have never bothered about the campaigns against me by any, as I don't belong to any party, nor seek or need anyone's courtesy, by the grace of the Divine I believe in. So this is not to answer any campaign." "I have always opposed and will continue to oppose privatisation as I believe with all faults majority bank assets in India have to be in state hands. The Indian economy will be ruined if the major part of the financial sector falls into private hands with the expansion and contraction of the <keyword id="6355302" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="rupee" source="Orion">Rupee</keyword> dependent on the Dollar," Gurumurthy said. "I resisted within RBI all efforts to pressure the government to privatise when the previous RBI governors were in command," he added. As regards his speech at the Thuglak magazine's function Gurumurthy said the UPA government's policies of letting huge FII investments into the stock market led to indigestible money in the system. To lend that money the government brought down the customs tariffs to zero for capital goods to attract the industrialists to borrow from banks. Gurumurthy said the government persuaded the industry to go for huge expansions in the hope that India would turn into a high growth export driven economy. According to Gurumurthy, the huge recession that followed 2008-09 made the investments of several lakhs of crore junk and the monies lent, NPA (non performing asset) and which was also later accepted by former Governor of RBI Raghuram Rajan. "That is where the woes of the PSBs (public sector bank) started. Not a single political party, including the BJP and CPI-M or the bank unions spoke the truth about the source of the NPA trouble. The guilty finance ministry officials who ran telbanking were mixed up with both the UPA and NDA governments, to suppress the truth," Gurumurthy said. Continuing further he said, the NPA issue, action against it by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Central Vigilance Commission (CVC), the prudential norms completely shook the bank officers. "This gave a huge opportunity to the private banks and funds which had a heyday because the best loan accounts shifted to them. They began giving high salaries and attracting capable PSB officers," Gurumurthy said. As a result, several capable officials left the PSBs and he had termed the remaining officials as 'kazhisadai' meaning leftovers or those who could not pass through the filter, remained inside. "It is a fact and I stand by it," Gurumurthy said. Referring to the decline in share of PSB loans in the total banking sector loans Gurumurthy said: "At this rate the PSBs need not be privatised. They will get so marginalised that they will handle only the government and municipal accounts and all corporate accounts will be taken over by private banks. That we are not having and not generating and training the needed talent in the PSBs to handle 60 per cent of national savings that gets into the PSB is indisputable. It is a matter of concern for all -- government included," he said. "If you are a responsible trade unionist you will be concerned, talk about this and not play petty politics. I wrote this because you had invited me to talk to AIBEA and you know our views converge on PSBs in many ways," Gurumurthy told Venkatachalam and also asked whether he has the guts to circulate his mail to AIBEA members. "I will not make this public unless you do it. If you do it, have the courage to publish it in full," Gurumurthy said. 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