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Discontent brews afresh in banks, strikes in May-end
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SME Times News Bureau | 19 May, 2022
Bank employees are again on the warpath with several major unions of
different banks threatening to go on a one or two-day strike in May-end,
activists said here on Thursday.
For starters, Central
Bank of India staffers shall strike work on May 30-31 to protest against
large-scale shutting down of branches, bypassing employees in crucial
decision-making processes, large-scale transfers, etc.
Similarly,
the Bank of Baroda and Punjab & Sindh Bank employees will keep off
work on May 30 while staffers of the Catholic Syrian Bank, the Bank of
India, the Bank of Maharashtra, the Federal Bank, and the UCO Bank are
already agitating in different ways since the past few months.
Maharashtra
State Bank Employees Federation (MSBEF) General Secretary Devidas
Tuljapurkar said that there is tremendous distress in the entire banking
industry with some or the other forms of agitation affecting almost
each bank.
"Since the past 5-6 years, banks have started
outsourcing many works to outside private parties, all recruitments have
stopped and the bipartite settlement has not been implemented in some
banks," he said.
In some like the Federal Bank, the employees are
agitating against the management's attempts to suppress the voice of
dissent of the union representatives and even attacking them, MSBEF
President Nandkumar Chavan said.
The UCO Bank unions have
recently decided at their meeting in Nagpur to launch an all-out
agitation on the issue of recruitment which is among the most serious
problems in the banking industry, he added.
According to
Tuljapurkar, presently there are around 900,000 bank employees all over
India in all banks but an equal number are working with private
companies to where various bank tasks have been outsourced.
"Plus,
the Central government has implemented all their social sector schemes
through banks which has resulted in a huge increase in the workload.
There has been large-scale retirement of employees in banks but with no
new recruitments, it has led to massive pressures and stress on the
existing frontline employees, culminating in the unrest," he contended.
Both
Chavan and Tuljapurkar urged the government and the banking industry to
take the initiative and address the genuine concerns of the employees
and unions to enable normalise industrial relations as the banks are
just emerging out of their NPA problems and the Covid-19 crisis in the
past couple of years.
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