You have the most powerful Union that can demand terms and signs Bipartate agreements with Managements. If both parties agree for the implementation of payment of arrears from a specific cut-off date, that date prevails. It may be possible that the awards before implementation of BPS agreements, the Govt might have stated the date from which the BPS has to be implemented EX: 1.From the date of expiry of earliest agreement 2.From the date of signing of agreement 3.At a mutually agreed date. That specific statutory stipulation prevails.
In the case of Banks, both IBA and their workmen agreed to a common date and have not implemented it from the date of expiry of the earlier agreement. For those who retired after the expiry of BPS and before the agreed date there was a huge loss in the fixation of pension. Those retirees challenged the BPS cut-off date for implementation stating that once a statute stipulated, the parties (management and Union) can not fix a cut-off date on their own on mutually agreed terms. SC upheld and as a result their BPS was implemented from that date stipulated by statute and not from the cut-off date agreed in between the signatories of BPS.
You may explore the possibilities from your Union as they collect subscripttions, the levy for another 30 years from you, and have crores of subscripttion to take up the causes.
