Dear Readers,
Greetings of the season.
You are aware that Bank Officers Progressive Forum, a pressure group within Association, was formed on 16/08/2008 and recently completed its first month.
During this first month there was overwhelming response from officer’s fraternity. Huge membership of the forum has been enrolled till date and large many officers have given consent to join forum shortly. Response from other Associate Bank officers was also overwhelming and several memberships from other Associate Banks have already been received.
We have also received lot of comments, articles, queries & mails in our mail id bankofficersprogressiveforum@gmail.com. Many of these thought provoking articles/comments are also published in our blog http://bankofficersprogressiveforum.blogspot.com.
We thank all the members for their valuable contributions to this Forum in spite of their busy schedule. In fact, lot of mails was received from officers to provide all necessary support to make this movement successful. In the first month we have kept our strategy intact, which will also be our strategy in short term, as follows:--
1.Not to participate in any strike if it is called against merger and consolidation in banking industries.
1.Not to participate in any strike if it is called against merger and consolidation in banking industries.
2.In view of impending merger of Associate banks to work for clinching maximum benefits for its members Post-Merger.
The Forum immediate objective is to canvass officers to support merger and make necessary environment so that merger of rest 6 Associate Banks gets completed before next general elections in country. To achieve the said objectives, this Forum invites articles/strategies from its members on the above mail address (bankofficersprogressiveforum@gmail.com).
Our leadership is in constant touch with the like minded officers of other Associate Banks so that a new breed of leadership should emerge in big SBI which will not only cater the needs of officers of Associate Banks but will take the broader stand of pro reform agenda to make SBI really strong enough to make it a global financial leader.
We are in the process of cleansing the rusted trade union ship from Banking.
Comradely yours,
Blog Managing Committee
3 comments:
Forum's has done tremendous work which is really to be appreciated by all. Efforts put forth by its member is showing its effect. First Mumbai, now Delhi and slowly other cities are following the path to merge with SBI.
Great effort - keep it up.
Post - Lehman , it has become essential to consolidate and stregthen our banking system. It is required that all the stakeholders in Indian Banking Industry must come forward and take immediate measures to consolidate the Indian Banking structure at the earliest. Any attempt by various vested interest groups in the guise of Trade Unionism ( run by politically motivated individuals representing certain political ideologies ) , which goes against the larger interest of officers must be resisted . In the present context, the strike call of 24th/25th sept'is viewed as one such attempt, which requires appropriate treatment by the officers of Indian Banking.
Bank employees and officers have lost their resistance power. Even they do not see what is happening in other industries and institutions in connection with wage hike and other service conditions, no one is ready to ask a questions to the leaders that what are they doing in wage negotiations. The leaders are living and working like a kings and they have no needs for the wage hike thats why they are not seeing the centre govt , state govt and other psu employees.It is a need of hour to question them about the pitiable conditions of bank employees and officers who are working in a strains atmosphere .I highly appreciate the representative of bank officers progressive forum who have come forward to awake the employees.
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