The Class III employees of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) are going ahead with their one-day strike tomorrow as the conciliation meeting held today the between the RBI management and the All India Reserve Bank Employees Association ended in a deadlock. The central bank has declared the strike call illegal.
The RBI has said that it will function as usual tomorrow and will try to provide, to the extent possible, the required services to the constituents and public in the event of a section of the employees going on strike.
"We do not expect our functioning to be affected as the officers can handle the burden of the striking employees," an RBI spokesperson said.
The 15,000 class III employees, representing the clerical cadre, are demanding correction of the anomaly that has creeped in giving increments as there as some cases where a clerk who is an under-graduate gets higher increment than a graduate or a CAIIB qualified candidate; house furnishing allowance like officers, and a change in designation among others.
Talks had been on between the management and the association since the signing of the bipartite wage agreement in August 2000 on the issue of service conditions but on August 9 all the demands were rejected by the management, union representatives said.
