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Bank employees and officers observed a one-day nationwide onslaught connected Tuesday (January 27, 2026) successful effect to a telephone fixed by the United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU), an umbrella assemblage of 9 large banking unions representing astir 9 lakh employees and officers crossed the country. They demanded the contiguous implementation of a five-day enactment week successful banks, arsenic agreed upon successful the 12th Bipartite Settlement and the 9th Joint Note signed connected March 8, 2024.
A ample fig of slope employees and officers participated successful the protest, raising slogans and demanding the aboriginal instauration of the five-day banking system. The protestation was presided implicit by N. Subba Rao, president of the Krishna District Bank Employees’ Coordination Committee. Addressing the gathering, vice-president Y.S. Rao criticised the Central authorities and the Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) for failing to honour the agreed settlement. He said that though the IBA forwarded the connection to the authorities successful 2024, support has been pending for respective months, forcing employees to edifice to protests.
AITUC person Venkata Subbaiah addressed the gathering and criticised the Central government’s labour policies, peculiarly the implementation of the 4 Labour Codes, which helium described arsenic anti-employee and anti-people. He expressed afloat solidarity with the striking slope employees and assured continued enactment for their struggle.
Leaders of assorted slope unions, including APTBEF and AIBOA, besides addressed the gathering and extended solidarity. Krishna District Bank Employees’ Coordination Committee caput K. Ramesh Babu congratulated employees for their monolithic participation, portion moving president P. Anjananeyulu thanked each participants and urged them to beryllium prepared for prolonged agitations.
Union leaders alleged that contempt the settlement, the agreed proviso has not been implemented owed to delays successful authorities approval. Conciliation talks held connected January 22 and 23, 2026, failed to output immoderate affirmative outcome, prompting the unions to intensify their agitation done the nationwide strike.
