The All India Insurance Employees Association (AIIEA) is a
trade union
A trade union (labor union in American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers intent on "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment", ch. I such as attaining better wages and benefits ( ...
in the life and general insurance
public sector
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of
India
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. The AIIEA was formed in July 1951 and its inaugural convention was held at Dhuru Hall of
Dadar,
Bombay
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, on 30 June – 1 July 1951. It is politically a
left-oriented organisation.
Membership and achievements
When the AIIEA was formed, its membership was in the hundreds. Now it has a membership of over 100,000 with eight zonal units, 101 divisional units, and 2048 branch units throughout India. There are several female union office bearers at the branch, divisional, zonal and national levels; female membership exceeds 40%.
In its 60 years of existence it has resisted the privatization of
public sector
The public sector, also called the state sector, is the part of the economy composed of both public services and public enterprises. Public sectors include the public goods and governmental services such as the military, law enforcement, infra ...
insurance companies,
pension
A pension (, from Latin ''pensiō'', "payment") is a fund into which a sum of money is added during an employee's employment years and from which payments are drawn to support the person's retirement from work in the form of periodic payments ...
agreements and Mediclaim subsidies for both existing and retired employees.
Leaders
SZIEF is among the leading zonal units of AIIEA led by K. Swaminathan and Kunhikrishnan.
ICEU Thanjavur Division is one of the leading divisional units of AIIEA, led in the past by R. Govindarajan, K. Sreenivasan, K. Lakshmanan, and S.R. Krishnamurthy. It is now led by R. Punniamurthy and S. Selvaraj.
References
External links
*https://web.archive.org/web/20121128182833/http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/karnataka/opposition-to-fdi-in-insurance-sector/article3935905.ece
*http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl2212/stories/20050617004112000.htm
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Trade unions established in 1951
Organisations based in Hyderabad, India
Insurance industry trade unions
1951 establishments in India