Bank employees strike news: Banks likely to remain closed on these dates. Details here
Bank of India(SBI), Punjab National Bank(PNB) and Punjab & Sind Bank will go on strike on 4 December followed by employees of Bank of Baroda and Bank of India going on strike on 5 December. The employees of Canara Bank and Central Bank of India will be on strike on 7 December, employees of - Union Bank of India and Bank of Maharashtra will be on strike on 8 December.
The private banks will go on strike on 11 December. The All India Bank Employee Association in its list of demands have stated that the government should stop outsourcing of permanent jobs in banks and also adequate recruitment of Award Staff should be done in banks.
AIBEA general secretary C H Venkatachalam had pointed out earlier that outsourcing of jobs by some of the banks are putting privacy of customers and their money at risk apart from reduction in recruitment at the lower level, Some banks are also indulging in violation of Industrial Disputes (Amendment) Act. Even where the labour authorities have intervened, the management has ignored their advice, violated the provisions of Industrial Disputes Act and forcibly transferred the employees, he had stated.
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