Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 25 (UNI) In response to the call given by All India Bank Employees Association (AIBEA), as many as six lakh employees working in Public Sector Banks, Private Banks, Foreign Banks, Cooperative Banks and Regional Rural Banks will join the one-day general strike called by Central Trade Unions on Thursday.
AIBEA Joint Secretary K S Krishna, in a release here on Wednesday said it has demanded for reversal of the policy of bank privatisation, enhancing interest rates for bank deposits, urgent recovery of corporate bad debts, scrapping outsourcing of regular banking jobs etc.
The strike is to support the seven-point demands of the 10 Central Trade Unions and many independent sectoral trade federations for direct income support to the workers, free rations, rising guaranteed employment days, scrapping retrograde farmers and labour laws etc, he added.