Almost all banks, including SBI, have informed their customers about the work being affected by this strike. These banks say that work like check clearing and fund transfer may stop due to this.
Nine lakh employees of many public sector banks of the country have announced a two-day nationwide strike from Thursday. According to employees union leaders, the strike will be against the attempt to privatize two public sector banks. Almost all banks, including SBI, have informed their customers about the work affected by this strike. These banks say that check clearing and Work like fund transfer can stop with this.
Bank union said, strike has to be done due to lack of agreement
According to Soumya Dutta, general secretary of the All India Bank Officers’ Confederation (AIBOC), the settlement meeting with the Additional Chief Labor Commissioner on Wednesday failed. Therefore the union has decided to go on strike. The government has decided to privatize two public sector banks this year in the budget of 2021-22. Against this, the United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU) has decided to go on strike on 16 and 17 December.
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Employees are demanding to stop bank privatization bill
United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU) is the representative organization of several bank employee unions including All India Bank Employees Association, AIBOC and National Organization of Bank Workers. AIBEA general secretary CH Venkatachalam said representatives of bank unions, the Indian Banks’ Association and the finance ministry took part in the settlement meeting but to no avail. He said that on behalf of the bank unions, the government was told that if it does not bring the bank privatization bill in the current session, then the banks will not go on strike. But the representatives of the government have not made any promise. So the banks decided to go on strike for two days.
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