All India Insurance Employees Association

The All India Insurance Employees Association (AIIEA) is a trade union in the life and general insurance public sector of India. The AIIEA was formed in July 1951 and its inaugural convention was held at Dhuru Hall of Dadar, Bombay, on June 30 and July 1, 1951. It is politically a left-oriented organisation.

AIIEA
Full nameAll India Insurance Employees Association
Founded1951
Members110000
Key peopleAmanulla Khan
(President)[1]
V. Ramesh
(General Secretary)
Office locationLIC Buildings, Secretariat Road, Hyderabad 500 063, India
CountryIndia

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 insurance companies, pension 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 Thankjavur Division is one of the leading divisional units of AIIEA, led in the past by stalwarts like R. Govindarajan, K. Sreenivasan, K. Lakshmanan, and S.R. Krishnamurthy. It is now led by R. Punniamurthy and S. Selvaraj.[2][3][4][5][6]

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References
  1. "Disinvestments of PSUs Opposed". The Hindu. Retrieved 12 July 2009.
  2. "Insurance employees intensify stir". THE HINDU. Retrieved 4 September 2010.
  3. "Insurance staff threaten stir on FDI". BUSINESS LINE. Retrieved 25 September 2007.
  4. "Stop move to increase FDI, says AIIEA". THE HINDU. Retrieved 2 December 2008.
  5. "UPA policies to blame for financial scandals, charge trade nunions". THE HINDU. 5 January 2011. Retrieved 5 January 2011.
  6. Peter Waterman. "A New Social Unionism".

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