LUDHIANA: Accusing
Indian Banks Association (IBA) of not fulfilling their demands, the government bank employees will go on 48 hours strike from 6am, May 30th till 6am, June 1st. This was disclosed on Wednesday by
Naresh Gaur, Convenor of Ludhiana unit of
United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU). Gaur also informed that ahead of the strike, the bank employees will also hold a massive demonstration outside SBI,
Fountain Chowk tomorrow.
Giving more information about the strike,
Pawan Thakur, president, Punjab Bank Employees Federation (Ludhiana Unit), said, "The strike has become unavoidable as all our demands are still pending before IBA and deliberately being delayed to deprive us of our rights. In addition to the meagre offer of only 2 percent hike in our wages by IBA, the government too has been casual in its approach towards our demands specially wage revision".
Thakur also added, "Some of our major demands are expeditious and early wage revision settlement, adequate increase in salary and improvement in other service conditions. We also demand that wage revision settlement should include all officers upto scale 7. We do not want to cause any inconvenience to the public but we are left with no other alternative except for going on strike. Tomorrow all of us will gather outside SBI, Fountain Chowk and stage a protest as well”