El afiliado de la FSM AIBEA (Asociación de Empleados Bancarios de Toda la India), el sindicato más antiguo y grande de Empleados Bancarios en la India está celebrando su 29ª Conferencia Nacional de la Asociación de Empleados Bancarios de Toda la India en Mumbai del 13 al 15 de mayo de 2023.
Delegados de todos los Bancos de todos los Estados de la India están tomando parte en la Conferencia y también una gran participación internacional de líderes de varios países están asistiendo a la conferencia para saludarla e intercambiar sus puntos de vista y gastos. Los delegados internacionales proceden de Bangladesh, Brasil, Chipre, Dinamarca, Egipto, Malasia, Mauricio, Nepal, Palestina, Sri Lanka y Siria.
La Secretaria General de la AITUC y Vicepresidenta de la FSM, Amarjeet Kaur, inauguró la conferencia.
El Secretario General de la FSM, Pambis Kyritsis, intervino en la sesión inaugural de la conferencia como Invitado Principal y en su intervención analizó el desarrollo mundial y las prioridades de la FSM mencionando también lo siguiente:
“I sincerely thank the leadership of AIBEA and personally, it’s G.S., comrade C.H. Venkatachalam for the invitation to attend and address your Conference on behalf of the World Trade Union Federation.”
“AIBEA is a valued and historic member of the WFTU with a significant role in the foundation, development, and leadership of BIFU, the class-oriented International Bank Employees’ Trade Union, while comrade Venkatachalam is repeatedly elected by the WFTU Presidential Council as the Chairman of the Finance Control Committee of the WFTU.”
“The crisis of the system certainly does not leave unaffected the financial sector. In the finance sector, just as in other sectors, it is the bank and insurance workers and their families who actually pay the consequences of rampant thirst for profits and dividends. Privatizations, mergers, collapses are now a daily practice in the banking system. A practice linked to mass layoffs and attacks against collective agreements and collective bargaining, on the wages and pension rights of bank workers.”
“Unfortunately, the present Government in India by promoting adverse changes in labour laws and privatization of many public sector companies and institutions is pursuing such policies which are helping only the richer sections and the capitalist classes. For those who resist, and who do not compromise with oppression, discrimination, and man-by-man exploitation, the path of dignity is the path of the struggles. We know that the All-Indian Bank Employees Association, which is a leading organization, has been taking initiatives to build a united front of Bank and Insurance Unions and to organize struggles to defeat Bank invalidation and save public sector Banks.”
