PSU bank staff on strike today & tomorrow

New Delhi: Banking services are likely to be impacted for the next couple of days as employees of public sector banks (PSBs) have given a two-day nationwide strike from Wednesday to press for a wage revision.

As the meeting called by the Chief Labour Commissioner for a reconciliation failed on wage revision, all nine constituents of the United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU) have decided to continue with the strike call, the All India Bank Officers' Confederation (AIBOC), an affiliate of UFBU, said in a statement.

AIBOC general secretary D T Franco said that UFBU leaders had conveyed their grievance, including that there is inordinate delay, an offer of 2 per cent was not in good taste and the practice of wage negotiation for officers up to Scale VII — which has been the practice — has to continue.

On the May 5 meeting, IBA offered 2 per cent hike which was rejected by unions calling it unjust. MPost