Those were the days, when the entire banks and banking industry were in the hands of rich individuals and private companies, including SBI. No bank was government owned. AIBEA and its leaders had a great vision and far-sighted approach. Right from its inception in 1946, AIBEA has been voicing its concern about the role of Banks.

As informed to you earlier the Apex level GR meeting was held with the Head Office management on 3rd July, 2025. The Management team was led by Shri. Rajesh Nagar, Chief General Manager along with Sri Ghanshyam Parmar, General Manager, Sri Jaiswal, DGM Sri SK Jha, DGM, Sri Narendra Karn & Sri Abhijit Mitra, CMs and Sri Surinder, Officer (NEGO cell). Our team was represented by Com K.Vijhayan, Chairman, Com C M Patel Vice Chairman, Com R A Sharma President, Com. Partha Chanda, General Secretary and Com. Alkesh Rajveer Deputy General Secretary.

Reg: Bipartite Talks with IBA on Group Medical Insurance Policy for employees, officers and retirees
Further to last round of meeting with IBA held on 21-5-2025 on renewal of the policy for the year 2025-26 and for discussing improvements in the scheme, one more round of meeting took place today between IBA and UFBU in IBA’s office in Mumbai. IBA was represented by their team led by Shri Rajneesh Karnatak, Chairman of the negotiating Committee (MD&CEO, Bank of India). From UFBU all our Unions participated in the meeting.

UFBU CIRCULAR : Our unions and members are aware that in the recent agitation and Strike Notice, we had highlighted the issue of increasing attacks and assaults on employees and officers in bank branches. During the conciliation meeting before the Chief Labour Commissioner, we pointed out that unruly customers and banking public are indulging in physical assaults on employees and officers in Branches and such customers also use abusing language on the staff members.

We reproduce hereunder the contents of CIRCULAR NO.AIBEA/195/2025/42 Dated 24/05/2025 Issued by Com. C.H.VENKATACHALAM ,General Secretary, AIBEA, on the above subject for information of our members.

Please recall the discussions the undersigned had with you recently on the above matter.
You are well aware that in our Bank, recruitment of Substaff and Armed Guards was stopped since 2011. Since then, a huge number of new branches were opened and large number of Substaff Employees were superannuated. This has ultimately compelled the branches to engage casual workers in the vacant posts of Substaff, to undertake the housekeeping and substaff activities of the branch. Thus, in our observation and calculation more than 2000 branches/offices are having substaff vacancies as they are being manned by casual workers, in order to run the day-today subordinate activities. Similarly, a large number of high risk and medium risk branches are prone to risk without security guards in the absence of recruitment of Armed Guards.