2 Hours Walk-out Strike on 31.03.2010 in GI PS Companies deferred.

Please note that to-day strike deffered in the context of thecall for 2Hour walkout on 31.03.2010 and the serious preparations therefor, the GIPSA has send a letter under the signature of Chairman on 30.03.2010. He has appealed to the unions to withdraw the STrike and assured to deliberate the matter in their Governing Board on 7.04.2010 for further dialogue and progress. It is a climb down from their earlier stand of " thus far no further ". Talking into account the conciliatory approach of Management, it hasbeen decided to defer the 2Hour strike till further review after 7th April, 2010. Because of the Strike action programme, GIPSA management came down with positive approach. Quodos to all associations who joined in the Joint Action Programme
Rama Sarma SVS, General Secretary, VRGIEA

2 HOURS PRE LUNCH WALK-OUT STRIKE ON 31.12.2010 IN PS GI COMPANIES

Dear Comrades,

Best Performance by Public Sector General Insurance Cos. – CONGRATS!

The four PS General Insurance Cos. have procured a gross premium of Rs.18,222.44 Cr. in the 11-month period of the current fiscal upto February 2010 recording an average growth of 12.21% over the corresponding period of the previous year. The two top private insurance companies posted a negative growth during this period.

Growth over the  corresponding period of previous year (%)

New India  8.85%, United India 19.45%, Oriental 15.76%, National 6.11%, Total Public Sector 12.21%

ICICI   (-) 7.77%, Bajaj Allianz (-) 6.73%, Tata AIG 0.07%

GIPSA / Mgt. Still Indifferent – Refuses to Talk to the Unions

In Public Sector General Insurance, the wage talks are still at the level of GMs(P) of the Cos. with their insistence on 17.5% (with mgt. Agenda). It seems that any amount of persuasion, logic and justification for a better wage deal would not work when the mgt. decides to remain indifferent. The CMDs of Cos. seem to feel that it is not their responsibility to find a satisfactory solution to the wage demand of the employees and officers in consonance with growth, productivity and competitive environment. The mechanism of GIPSA is allowed to bully the employees; the CE sent a letter to the Trade Unions dated 05.02.2010 asking the consent of the Unions to the retrograde offer of mgt; a sort of message is sent out to the Unions that the mgt. would proceed unilaterally. The Unions’ protests notwithstanding, the mgt. remains adamant and indulges in act of dividing the employees stating that some of the Unions have consented and appreciated their offer of 17.5%.

Break the silence – Unions call for Walkout Strike on 31.03.2010

To break the silence of the management, to press for early resumption of talks with a better offer sans conditions and to secure a respectable wage package and pension option, the Unions and Associations of employees and officers have called upon the employees and officers to observe two-hour walkout strike preceding lunch recess on March 31. 2010. The joint strike notice has been issued by the unions and SC/ST Welfare Associations besides issuance of individual union-wise notices.

The four Unions of Confed (NICOA, NIAOA, OICOA & UIIOA), AIIEA, AIGIFWA and the three SC/ST Welfare Organisations (AIGISC/STWA, AIGISC/ST Parishad and AISC/STGIWA) have already issued a joint call. Appeal is made to the other organisations to join the movement in the larger interest of employees and officers.

The Joint Communique dt. 22.03.2010 is sent herein. All our units are advised to coordinate with the unions and Welfare organisations to chalk out appropriate local programmes for the successful observance of the call. The programme includes lunch hour demos on March 30, April 5 and 12 subject to local convenience. The Unions/Associations have decided to intensify the agitation if the mgt. allows the stalemate to continue.

LIC Chairman assures to work for Satisfactory Wage Revision for LIC Employees/Officers

After rejecting the offer of 17.5%, AIIEA and other Unions in LIC launched series of programmes of agitation, which included walkout strike and one day strike to press for a better deal. In the background of further call of the unions in LIC for withdrawal of extra cooperation and one day strike on March 31, 2010, LIC mgt. invited the Unions for discussion on March 19 & 20, 2010. The Chairman and MD assured the unions of their serious efforts for a satisfactory solution to the wage demand. Following the commitment of the mgt. to workout a satisfactory wage settlement and the appeal made by the Chairman, the Unions in LIC have agreed to suspend their agitation.

New Team for CITU

Com. A.K. Padmanabhan has been elected as President and Com. Tapan Sen as General Secretary of the CITU in the national conference held at Chandigarh during March 16-20, 2010. AIIEA has sent its greetings to the new team of CITU.

ALL THE EMPLOYEES OF PUBLIC SECTOR GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANIES OF INDIA ARE REQUESTED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE

2 HOURS PRE-LUNCH

WALK-OUT STRIKE

ON

31.03.2010

TO ACHIEVE THE FAIR WAGE REVISION WITHOUT ANY CONDITIONALITIES .

JAC STRIKE PROGRAMME ON 31.03.2010(2 HOURS WALKOUT AND 13.04.2010 ONEDAY STRIKE

Dear all,

Sub: Joint Movement on Wage Demands

This refers to the mail of Com S. Vasudevan, Secretary General of AIGIFWA dt 16.3.2010. I fully agree with his perception.

The Chennai JAC meeting on 12.3.2010 was attended by all-India leaders of Unions/Assns as mentioned by Com Vasudevan. Com.B.Shanmugham & Com.Kesavan (NIAOA - Confed), Com Ramadoss & Naganathan (GIOAIA - INTUC), Com.Sathyanarayana (Secretary GIEAIA), Com KA Alexander, Com. Umapathy & Com Asokan (SC/ST Welfare Assn) represented their organisations in the meeting, besides J Gurumurthy & PV Nandakumar (AIIEA), G Jayamurthy(Parishad), S.Vasudevan (AIGIFWA), Vasudevan Iyengar, Jose & CA Baskaran (CONFED & UIIOA).

The meeting was held as a continuing process of building up joint movement to break the stalemate in the negotiations and to arrest the intended move of mgt to go ahead with unilateral actions. The success of earlier programmes chalked out in joint meetings at Chennai was noted. Except in General Insurance, in all the public sector institutions, strike actions have taken place on wage question and good settlements have been made possible. It is nearing three months now since the last round of talks was held in General Insaurance on Dec 22. The mgt has been indulging in devious acts to keep some unions out of any joint movement and propogating that one union has given its consent for 17.5%. This has been repudiated by the unions and it is felt that such falsehood of the mgt should be responded by concrete actions by all the unions.

With due consultations, Com.CA Bhaskaran, Secretary General of Confed has since advised their constituent units to issue strike notice on the mgt for the strike actions as discussed and as per consensus arrived at in the JAC meeting held on 12th March.

• The joint programmes as decided include

Two-hour walk-out strike preceding lunch interval on March 31 &

One day strike on April 13, 2010 with weekly demonstrations -

      * To break the silence of mgt;

          * To press for early resumption of talks with better offers sans conditionalities; &

         * To secure a respectable wage package & another Pension option.

AIIEA is endorsing the call and will be issuing Strike notice on the mgt. A joint Notice to mgt is also proposed.

AIIEA has advised its units to organise/join/participate in local meetings of unions/associations with the sole view of taking the movement forward to secure a respectable wage settlement. Hope that should be the spirit of all.

J Gurumurthy

Secretary, AIIEA

March 16, 2010

All the employees of PS GIC companies are requested to mobilise the employees towards strike programmes to reach our voice with echo to higher authorities to resolve the long pending wage revivision without any conditionalities. 
Rama Sarma SVS, General Secretary, VRGIEA