PSU bank employees on 2-strike from Feb 25

Employee unions of 28 public sector banks, on Friday, decided to go ahead with the proposed two-day strike from February 25 and an indefinite strike from the last week of March.

The decision follows the failure of talks with Indian Banks Association (IBA) and the government on merger of public sector banks, pension, outsourcing, compassionate appointments and recruitments.

The tripartite meeting in New Delhi, which went on for seven hours on Friday, was attended by the Chief Labour Commissioner, representatives of United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU) and IBA representatives.

C H Venkatachalam, convenor, UBFU, said: "The talks have failed... we are going ahead with the strike as planned."