As if the all India bank strike
on December 26 is not enough, a bank officers union has separately
threatened yet another bank strike on December 21, which would hit
banking services severely around the Christmas holidays.
The All India Bank Officers Confederation
(AIBOC) said the strike call on December 21 against Indian Banks'
Associations move to leave officers in scale IV and above out of the
bipartite wage settlement ambit.
December 21 being a Friday, bank services will be severely hit till
December 26 -- except for December 24 which is Monday -- as bankers will
enjoy weekends holidays as well as Christmas on December 25. Banks will
remain closed on December 22 as being the second Saturday.
"We demand full and complete mandate for officers (Scale I to VII)
wage revision in 11th bipartite settlement," AIBOC said in its bank
strike notice, a copy of which was marked to the Chief Labour
Commissioner in New Delhi.
The United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU), the umbrella unit for nine
bank associations including AIBOC, have similar demand. UFBU will be
going on bank strike on December 26 against issues ranging from wage
settlement and bank mergers.
UFBU rejected Indian Banks' Association's
8% wage hike offer. IBA proposed wage settlement for scale I to scale
III bank employees and is in favour of bank wise wage settlement for
senior employees of scale 4 and above.
"Wage revision for all scales of officers from scale I to scale VII
has been the practice since 1979. It is unfair that IBA ignored the fact
that the majority of the member banks have submitted the unconditional
mandate," AIBOC general secretary Soumya Datta said.
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