AITUC says Joint Forum of Trade Unions (JFTU) in General Insurance Companies is justified in rejecting management’s offer.
AITUC national secretary Amarjeet Kaur said the last settlement applicable to the employees of the General Insurance Companies was effective from 2012 to 2017. The next one is due from August, 2017 and not yet finalized. That is 59 months late!
On 7th June 2022, a delegation of GIEAIA, the largest union of insurance employees, met Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman, the FM, under the leadership of Com. Binoy Viswam, MP, urged her to conclude the long pending salary revision at the earliest.
वर्कर्स यूनिटी को सपोर्ट करने के लिए सब्स्क्रिप्शन ज़रूर लें- यहां क्लिक करें
They also reiterated their other demands, including that the Government increase their contribution to the National Pension Scheme to 14%. The Minister had assured them prompt results, which led them to withdraw their plans to go on an indefinite strike!
A meeting was arranged – though in virtual mode – with GIPSA, in which the management offered a 7% rise in the existing salaries – 5% with immediate effect and 2% from August 2017!
It is no surprise that JFTU, led by GIEAIA, immediately rejected the offer. In a meeting held in Mumbai on April 4, 2019, the then Chairman of GIPSA had assured them a salary revision better than that given to the employees of LIC, i.e. 15%!
- निजीकरण की भेंट चढ़ी देश की सबसे बड़ी बीमा कंपनी LIC
- बीमा कंपनियों के निजीकरण के खिलाफ यूनियनों ने खोला मोर्चा,पूरे देश में विरोध प्रदर्शन करने का ऐलान
It seems the Government wants to have the cake and eat it too. It dumps all the PM Yojanas on Public Sector Financial Institutions- be it PSU Banks or LIC or GIC – and at the same time talks of privatizing them!
Look at the list: Aayushman Bharat, PMRSBY, PM Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY), Corona Kavach Policy, CSR and many more such policies, with a very low premium and extremely high outgo, which the GIC employees are tasked with implementing.
It is heartening to learn that there is wide support for the stand taken by the JFTU – right from the Samyukt Kisan Morcha to the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) Asia Pacific Region. The AITUC reiterates it stands in solidarity with the GIEAIA and the JFTU in their struggle.
(वर्कर्स यूनिटी स्वतंत्र निष्पक्ष मीडिया के उसूलों को मानता है। आप इसके फ़ेसबुक, ट्विटर और यूट्यूब को फॉलो कर इसे और मजबूत बना सकते हैं। वर्कर्स यूनिटी के टेलीग्राम चैनल को सब्सक्राइब करने के लिए यहां क्लिक करें।)
