Bank workers’ strike on Friday

The National Organisation of Bank workers will go on a one-day nationwide strike on August 5 to protest the central government’s ignorance towards banking sector’s demands on salary hike and other issues.

More than 10 lakh employees across the country will participate in the strike. Dinesh Kulkarni,president,National Organisation of Bank said the major demands include,provision of adequate staff in banks through recruitments,maintainance and improvement of customer services and scrapping of Khandelwal committee recommendations.

“We are demanding that public sector banks should not be privatised and government’s equity capital in our banks should not be reduced,’’said Kulkarni.

The union is also against availing world bank loan and merger of banks. The union has also expressed unhappiness over the licenses issued to industrial houses to start their own banks. They have also demanded that the government should not outsource permanent banking jobs and normal banking services.