Zee Media Bureau
New Delhi: Employee unions of public sector banks across the country will go on zone-wise relay strike from Tuesday to Friday to press for wage revision.
The public sector bank employees had stopped work on November 12 on the wage issue, affecting services like cheque clearance and withdrawal from branches across the country.
The strike call was given by United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU).
According to the programme finalized by the unions, the strike will be preceded by demonstrations in each zone.
Bank employees of Southern Zone will be the first to go on strike, on December 2, followed by Northern Zone (Dec 3), Eastern Zone (Dec 4) and Western Zone (Dec 5).
The wage revision of public sector bank employees has been due since November 2012. While the unions demanded a 25 percent rise in wages and later scaled it down to 23 percent, the IBA stuck to its position of 11 percent increase.
There are 27 public sector banks in the country with a combined employee strength of about 8 lakh.
There are about 50,000 branches of these banks across the country.
With PTI inputs
