SBI officers threaten further two-day strike

KOLKATA: A week after it announced a nationwide strike on June 6, the State Bank of India Officers' Association on Tuesday threatened to go in for a two-day strike subsequently if their demands were not met.
    
The General Secretary of the Association (Bengal circle), S K Haldar, said that if the June 6 strike failed to meet their demands, the SBI officers would observe a two-day strike starting on June 10.
    
Haldar told reporters here that the June 6 strike would be observed across all the 10,000-odd branches of SBI in which nearly 60,000 officers would participate.
    
He said that the association had demanded, among other things, improvement in pension scheme of the bank, recruitment of adequate officers, regulation of working hours for officers and absorption of officers on contract.
    
Haldar said that the association was also opposed to all unilateral decisions taken by the management pertaining to functioning of the bank.
    
On the merger of State Bank of Saurashtra with SBI, he said the association was opposed to it. He said the association was not in favour of SBS employees being given pension out of the fund which had been created out of contribution by the SBI staffers over the years.
    
SBS has an approximate staff strength of 5,000.