Bank Strike Today: 2-Day Nationwide Strike By Bank SBI Employee Unions. The banks will remain closed for three days and ATMs may run dry because of this.
Citing surge in the third wave of Covid-19, a national trade union representing an estimated 3.5 lakh bank officers, is seeking restricted working hours at banks. Several requests made to the Centre also include the demand that bank staff and their family members be offered booster doses of Covid-19 vaccine on a priority basis. The All India Bank Officers’ Confederation
The government has said the precaution dose of the COVID-19 vaccine to be given to healthcare workers, frontline workers and those aged 60 years and above with comorbidities from January 10.
In a letter addressed to the Finance Minister, All India Bank Officers Confederation (AIBOC) also suggested the implementation of a 5-day week to break the chain of the spread of the virus