Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, March 27: A group of trade unions has called for a nationwide strike on March 28 and 29 to protest the government’s policies that impact workers, farmers, and people.
The banking sector will join the protest, which will begin on Monday, according to the All India Bank Employees Association. The trade unions have called for a two-day pan-India walkout to protest the government’s ‘anti-worker, anti-farmer, anti-people, and anti-national policies.’
According to a statement, the Joint Platform of Central Trade Unions met in Delhi on March 22 to assess preparations in various states and sectors for the two-day all-India strike against the Central government’s anti-worker, anti-farmer, anti-people, and anti-national policies.
The bank unions are protesting the government’s plan to privatise public sector banks and the Banking Laws Amendment Bill 2021.
According to a statement, despite the threat of ESMA (Haryana and Chandigarh, respectively), which prohibits any strike by doctors or other categories of health department employees for the next six months, highways, transport workers, and power workers have decided to join the strike.
Coal, steel, oil, telecommunications, postal, income tax, copper, banking, and insurance unions have all received strike notices. It has also urged several state-level unions to join the strike in protest of the center’s anti-labor measures.
Meanwhile, the State Bank of India has stated that the strike may have an impact on banking services also.
