All India Insurance Employees Association


The All India Insurance Employees Association 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.

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.