The All India Reserve Bank Employees’ Association (AIRBEA) and the All India Reserve Bank Workers’ Federation (AIRBWF) would join the all-India strike on Wednesday in solidarity with the country's working class.
The AIRBEA and the AIRBWF strongly hold that the steep fall of national economy, the unprecedented unemployment situation which shows that nearly 40% of the graduates and post-graduates are jobless, sale of profit- making public sectors to private corporates, elimination of huge workforce through closure, early retirement, contractualisation of work, escalating agrarian crisis leading to farmers’ suicides, severe plight of unorganised workers, warrant massive protest and intervention by the toiling people of the country. Hence the strike is fully justified. The two bodies strongly denounce the systematic outsourcing of RBI jobs, rapid shrinkage of the bank, reducing its total staff strength from earlier 42,000 to less than 14,000.
Responding to the call of the all India leadership of the AIRBEA and the AIRBWF, the Reserve Bank Employees’ Association (RBEA) and the Reserve Bank Workers’ Union (RBWU) Bhubaneswar have also decided to join the strike.