NOINO DELEGATION VISITS DELHI TO BREAK DEADLOCK ON
WAGE-REVISION & TO OPPOSE INCREASE IN FDI IN INSURANCE
· MEETS MINISTER OF FINANCE (State) & SECRETARY
(Financial Services)
· ALSO MEETS LEADERS OF OPPOSITION
· TALKS ON WAGE-REVISION EXPECTED SHORTLY
The
Insurance employees are concerned about a number of issues. The prime concern
is, however, regarding the pending wage-revision & the proposed move of the
UPA government to increase the FDI in Insurance from 26% to 49%. NOINO has been
at the forefront both in raising the wage-revision issue as well as in opposing
the proposed move of increasing FDI in Insurance.
The
situation with respect to the wage-revision is particularly disappointing with
over a year gone by without commencement of talks. With a view to break the
deadlock on this issue as well as to make further efforts to oppose the proposed
increase in FDI in Insurance, NOINO decided to take this issue once again with
the Government as well as the bureaucracy.
Hence a NOINO delegation led by Shri Prakash Javadekar, President, NOINO
(MP, Rajya Sabha) & consisting of Dr S.B.Sharan,
Working President; Smt. Anagha Sant,
General Secretary; Shri Dattaraj
Prabhukhanolkar, Resident Secretary; Shri Rajesh Dubey, Organizing Secretary; and Shri Ganesh Kamath, Chief Advisor camped in Delhi for this purpose.
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The following four meetings took place:
MEETING WITH SECRETARY, FINANCIAL SERVICES—9.15 AM
The NOINO delegation met Shri Rajeev Takru, Secretary, Financial Services, on 9.12.2013 at 9.15
a.m. for initiation of talks on wage-revision in LIC of India.
We demanded immediate initiation of talks on
wage revision in LIC. We informed him that NOINO had already submitted its
Charter of Demands on 23rd July 2012 itself i.e. eight days before
it became due. All other unions also subsequently submitted their Charter of
Demands but the talks did not start yet. We pointed out that wage revision in
Banks became due after that of in LIC but 3 rounds of talks already took place
in Banks and the 4th one was scheduled for 14th December,
whereas in LIC, it did not even start.
We also pointed out that our talks were always
linked with wage revision of banking industry whereas our nature of work was
quite different from that of Banks. We insisted that the wage revision in our
industry should be as per our (i.e. LIC) performance and it should not have
any linkage with Bank. Shri Takru was
very positive on these points and immediately gave instructions for preparing
preliminary note for wage revision matters at the earliest. We also handed
over a Memorandum to Shri Takru in this regard.
MEETING WITH ARUN JAITLEY—12.30 PM
The NOINO delegation met Shri Arun
Jaitley, Leader of Opposition, Rajya Sabha on the same day at 12.30 p.m. We
reiterated our stiff opposition to any proposed increase in FDI in Insurance.
Shri Jaitley appreciated the wonderful performance of LIC & assured all
support to our cause. We also submitted a memorandum to him in this regard.
MEETING WITH SUSHMA SWARAJ-12.45 PM
The NOINO delegation then met Smt Sushma
Swaraj, Leader of Opposition, Lok Sabha at 12.45 p.m. We again stressed our
opposition to any increase in FDI in Insurance. Smt Swaraj was very positive
& said that the BJP had already told the FM that they would oppose any such
move to increase FDI in Insurance. Here too, we submitted a memorandum to
her.
We also met Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad
and other BJP MP’s in this regard. They too, assured support to our cause.
MEETING WITH NAMO NARAYAN MEENA - 1.40 PM
The NOINO delegation then met Shri Namo
Narayan Meena, Minister of Finance (State) at 1.40 p.m. We reiterated all the points as discussed in
the meeting with Shri Takru such as immediate commencement of talks on
wage-revision/wage-rise according to our performance over the years (& not
tagging with the Banking industry etc). Shri Meena was very positive &
assured that he would be talking to the LIC management immediately & would
ask them to take steps to initiate the talks on wage-revision shortly.
