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To organise banking, insurance and other workers who qualify for membership,
whether professional, clerical or non-clerical, technical or commercial.
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To promote and to protect the interests and welfare of its members, by
representation for fair remuneration and other employment conditions, that
would ensure an adequate standard of living befitting the dignity of the
human person and commensurate with the levels of responsibility and all
other conditions relevant to the progressive interests of workers in general
and its members in particular.
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To settle disputes between members.
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To associate or affiliate with other Trade Unions and/or organisations,
nationally and internationally in the incessant struggle of the working
class and the masses generally against oppression, social and economic injustice
towards a fair and just society.
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To provide educational facilities and programmes/services for its members.
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To provide benefits for its members, such as retirement benefits,
death benefits, recreational facilities, co-operatives and other benefits
and services as may be introduced from time to time.
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To provide for the education of members in the principles, history, theory
and practice of trade union development and working class struggles
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To hold, purchase, lease, mortgage, or otherwise deal with real personal
property of any kind and to carry on or participate in any business or undertaking
(commercial, industrial or otherwise) in the interest of or for the purpose
of furthering the interests of the Union or of trade union development generally.
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To invest the funds of the Union in such stocks, funds, shares, securities
or other investments of whatsoever nature and wheresoever and whether involving
liability or not and whether coming under the definition of investments
for Trustees or not, as the Trustees of the Union, the Central Executive
and General Council shall in their discretion think fit and may vary from
time to time.
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To render financial assistance to members when on strike provided the strike
is called or sanctioned by the Union acting through the Central Executive.
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To provide legal advice and/or legal assistance necessary and as determined
by the Central Executive in connection with their employment.
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To provide legal assistance, costs and indemnity to officers and representatives
of the Union when acting in the name and on behalf of the Union.
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To promote a cordial relationship between its members and any employer
of its members and to settle disputes amicably wherever possible.
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To improve and promote a high level of service of its members to the employer(s)
generally.
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To promote liaison or affiliation with other organisations (local, regional
or international) having similar aims and objects.
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To generally promote the interests of the country and in particular, the
Trade Union Movement.
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To do all other such lawful things as are incidental or conducive to the
attainment of the above objects or any of them.
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Subject to the restrictions and to the conditions prescribed in relevant
provisions of the Trade Unions Ordinance, the political objects set forth
in Section 33 Sub-section 3 of the Ordinance shall also be objects of the
Union.
