Humble Appeal to Bank Employees

Strike tomorrow  in my view is not at all in support of demands related to wages of bank employees or their career and future,  it is perfectly  a political  strike targeted to weaken central government, tarnish image of BJP and finally serve their political interest,  create opposition unity and make a coordinated approach to dethrone  NDA from power,  stop bank merger,  CAA etc

How do you feel?

I think strong and age old unity of bank employees and blind faith on their union leaders are simply  exploited by their leaders to serve their selfish interest  and nothing more.  They seldom call strike for wage revision  or pension  updating or for  restoring  justice in applicability  date of enhanced gratuity. In the past also these leaders behaved in the same fashion. There is consensus  on need of updating  pension  of Bank retirees as being done in cases of central government employees.  There is consensus  that enhanced gratuity  to be paid to retired employees  with effect from  same date from which central  government employees are entitled.  Still our militant  trade unions could do nothing till date despite  lapse of decades. why?

Union leaders have been opposing merger of banks and  so called privatisation  of bank for last two decades and more.  They opposed computerisation  and they advocate for more and technology updation.  When political masters of these trade unions go for election campaign they demand waiver of loans, and when they come to bank they oppose writing  off of bad loans.  And so on....

It is time that bank employees  introspect  their position,  role and capacity  of their leaders,  role and capacity of IBA, what has been going on in practice for last three decades and what should have happened,  why merger is wrong and why not and so on....  After all bank employees  are in the category  of skilled labour,  and they are supposed to be more conscious  and prosperity active to protect their interest.

Keeping away all prejudices and age old notions about militancy  of bankers, we all should think pros and cons of the matter before it is too late.

Am I wrong?

Should we go on strike only for showing our unity as we have been doing since long?
Or should we focus on bankers interest and  national interest without caring who is power at center?

During UPA government  bankers ridiculed and abused MMS and now they are doing so for Modi for delay in reaching consensus  on Bipartite settlement .  How far this stand is justified and fruit fetching?

We have to think over it with peace of mind.  Mutual mud slinging  is not the solution, abusing on social sites goes futile and just murmuring against leaders and then worshiping them blindly will not yield desired results. .

Banker must organise a national debate to analyse threadbare deeds of the past and to chalk out united and consolidated  future course of action. This is my humble  appeal to you all. Please excuse me if I am wrong.

God bless you

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I'm posting below a few lines of latest  new items related to strike tomorrow and give link to it also so that you may also  read full text of the news.


CPI leader Atul Kumar Anjaan on January 5 urged national and regional political parties to join the workers and farmers in their nationwide protest on January 8. Ten central trade unions will go on a general strike or ‘Bharat Bandh’ on January 8 “to protest against the anti-labour policies” of the government. Employees of railways have also joined the protest in a show of solidarity.


Link to News paper The Hindu

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Today on 8th Jan 2020, I once again posted my appeal on social sites so that bank employees  take their individual decision  after  viewing , self introspection  and analysis  of current  situation. 

Strike today  in my view is not at all in support of demands related to wages of bank employees or their career and future,  it is perfectly  a political  strike targeted to weaken central government, tarnish image of BJP and finally serve their political interest,  create opposition unity and make a coordinated approach to dethrone  NDA from power,  stop bank merger,  CAA etc

If you watch TV today you will observe  how in the name of bank strike,  opponents  of Modi government  has started , vandalism,  arsoning and creating chaotic conditions by stopping train services too.

  Bank employees  during their strike never in the past resorted to such goodaism and antisocial  activities.  Bank employees  are famous for peaceful strike.  But unfortunately  as anticipated  earlier,  bank strike this time has been converted to antiBJP Bharat Bund and bank employees  are nowhere  visible. 

As I observe left unions and opponents  of BJP have all come together to fire bullets from shoulders of innocent  bank employees.  Take care,  I once again appeal  to bank employees.

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