SBI employees will go on strike, banks will remain closed for 5 days, complete all the work in advance

This is an important information for the customers of State Bank of India (SBI). If you have any important work related to the bank, then complete it now because SBI employees across the country will be on strike on 25th and 26th May. All India State Bank of India Federation has taken this decision in view of the bank management ignoring the interests of the employees and their pending demands. 23rd and 24th April are Saturday and Sunday and 27th is Bakrid, so banks are going to remain closed for 5 consecutive days.

Due to this strike, the functioning of banks will be halted not only for two days but for five days from Saturday to Wednesday. Due to closure of bank branches, common people may face problems in withdrawing money, depositing checks and other bank related work. Therefore, complete your bank work on time.

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Know why banks will remain closed for 5 consecutive days?

The combination of holidays and strikes in banks is such that work will remain closed for several days continuously.

23 May: There will be a bank holiday as it is the fourth Saturday of the month.

24 May: Sunday is the weekly holiday.

25 May: Work will remain closed due to the nationwide strike of employees.

26 May: Work will remain completely stalled on the second day of the strike as well.

27 May: Wednesday is the public holiday of Bakrid.

In this way, from May 23 to May 27, customers will not be able to do any work in the bank branches.

strike decision

Federation General Secretary L Chandrashekhar said that several discussions were held with the bank management but no solution was found to the complaints of the employees. The employees had to resort to strike. He said that it has become necessary to take this step for the rights of the employees. He also said that he apologizes for the inconvenience caused to the customers during this period.

One of the main demands of the employees is to remove the shortage of staff in the bank. He says that there has been no recruitment for the posts of messengers for the last three decades and guards with weapons for the last few years. Employees want that this ban on recruitment should be removed immediately and new recruitment should be done as soon as possible to run the work of the bank properly.

Issue of improvement in NPS

The employees are demanding to resolve the issue of salary deficiencies and special pay after the 12th bilateral agreement. Apart from this, demand for reform in the National Pension System has also been raised. Employees want to be given the option to change their fund manager so that they can properly manage their deposits.

opposition to outsourcing

The Federation is strongly opposed to the fact that permanent jobs in the bank are being provided to outsiders i.e. through outsourcing. They want it to stop immediately. They are also worried about the lack of security and anti-employee policies in the bank. The employees have demanded that the working conditions in the bank should be improved and strong security arrangements should be made.

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Demand to stop miss selling

The demands of the strike also include technical and policy related issues. Employees want that whatever shortcomings there are in the HRMS (Human Resource Management System) system of the bank should be corrected immediately. Apart from this, a demand has been made to completely stop the practice of wrongly selling goods or insurance policies to customers in the name of cross selling in banks, which is called mis-selling. He says that the bank management should stop this immediately.