The rationale for demanding a decent hike in salary for bankers

We are reproducing an article for the reference of our fellow bankers :
PSU Pay Revision Govt Says okay for further revision in pay for PSU officers About four lakh officers of central public sector enterprises will benefit from a government decision today giving them a further increase in salary and allowances, over and above the hikes announced last year.
The decision to improve the salary structure of officers at board level and below, along with supervisory staff, was taken at the Cabinet meeting presided over by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
The improved pay packages will also include increase in house rent allowance and retirement benefits.
The decisions are based on the recommendations of the committee of ministers headed by Home Minister P Chidambaram, which went into the revised salary and allowances notified earlier in November last year by the government.
PSU officers, particularly in the oil sector, forced the government to revisit their revised pay scales when they went on strike in January this year.
Briefing reporters after the Cabinet meeting, Chidambaram said the revision in the pay structure would vary from company to company. reports pti
BOPF opinion :
Now, the forum is of the view that when the council of ministers , headed by the P.M. can intervene to get a justified wage to PSE’s officers , why can’t they do so for bank officers ?
Is it not unfair on the part of the IBA and the UFBU to harp upon the agenda of meager percentage hikes in salary revision , when the emoluments of the officers of the Central government , various state governments and the central PSEs have been revised in the range of 45 % to 80 %. ?
Is it not the duty of the Government to bring in parity of salary structure and superannuation benefits of its different sets of officers and employees , whether working directly ( eg. Government officers and employees ) and indirectly ( eg. officers and employees working under various public sector units) ?
Is it not the duty of the IBA to to advise the government( in the fashion of armed forces during the 6 th pay revision of the Central Government ) that the bankers deserve a much better deal than are being offered as present ?
Is it not expected by our fellow bankers that the UFBU should not press for any revision instead of negotiating in the abysmally low range of 15 to 30 percent hike , much below the average hikes settled to other sets of people working for the government ?
Can the IBA and the UFBU sacrifice the interests of majority of the young officers for getting pension to the older lots ?
For getting the answers to these questions and many more , we need to ask more questions from our associations/federations and the IBA . We must convey our anguish over the low quantum of propsed hikes and the manner of negotiations to the appropriate authorities ,including IBA,AIBOC,NOBO,AIBOA, UFBU,MOF and The PM too.
We must note that by asking for a decent salary and superannuation package , we are not begging , but we are promoting equality among public servants . If we are not asking for a just salary structure , we are denying a minimum level of decent living standard for our family members . COMMUNICATE YOUR VIEWS EFFECTIVELY TO ARRIVE AT A CONSENSUS