Banking services were partially affected due to nationwide strike
Banking services were partially affected in the country in response to a nationwide strike called for today and tomorrow by…
Banking services were partially affected in the country in response to a nationwide strike called for today and tomorrow by…
According to him, the only issue being confronted with the PSBs was that of huge Non-Performing Assets (NPAs) in which the major share was that of big corporates.
The Congress has extended support to the two-day nationwide bank strike on March 15 and 16 against the privatisation of public sector banks and banking reforms.
United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU), an umbrella body of nine unions, had given a strike call for March 15 and 16.
The UFBU has called for a pan-India strike on March 15-16. It has claimed that about 10 lakh bank employees and officers of the banks are participating in the strike.
The unions said they would reconsider their strike call if the government agrees to reconsider their decision to privatise public sector banks.
A host of bank unions have given a call for strike on March 15-16.
Fifty-two years after the nationalisation of banks, the contentious issue is privatisation of two banks, as proposed in the Budget 21-22, that was presented in the Lok Sabha on February 1 by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
"In the process, 75 per cent of workers are being pushed out of the orbits of labour laws since they will have no legal protection under the new enactment," he said.
Earlier, bank unions had threatened to go on three-day strike, starting from March 11, but it was cancelled.
