Chennai: All India Bank Employees Association (AIBEA) today said Bank employees and officers across the country, including in Reserve Bank of India (RBI) observed a day's strike in support of the 12-point charter of demands of the National Trade Convention and to oppose the 'anti-people economic policies' and 'anti-worker labour reforms' of the Central government. The strike call was given by AIBEA, AIBOA, BEFI, INBEF, INBOC, AIRBEA and AIRBWU. The strike was a 'total success', AIBEA General Secretary Ch.Venkatachalam told UNI here.
The Bank employees also opposing the retrograde banking reforms like privatization of banks, consolidation and merger of banks, allowing big corporates to start their own private banks, allowing Licence to corporate houses to start Small Private Banks in the rural areas and deliberate inaction to recover huge bad loans in banks. Mr.Venkatachalam said Banking services were mostly paralysed across the country. 'It is the government's failure to resolve the issues which forced us to observe strike, he said, and regretted for the inconvenience caused to the banking public. He said we appeal to the customers to understand that the demands of employees are not for wage revision, but to safeguard public sector banking and people's savings.(UNI)
